LEGACY OF A BLACK COUNTRY BOXING LEGEND The Welter-weight Boxer Joe Attwood (1890-1975) is a Black Country sporting legend who could hold his own in any fistic company – from a bar room brawl to the […]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Gray’s Auctioneers Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations auction on September 27, at 11am EST will feature the sale of property from the personal collection of Cleveland luminaries Maxeen & John Flower. The proceeds from the sale […]
The Daniels collection of antique and vintage phones has been consigned to Morphy Auctions, where it will be apportioned into three subsequent General Antiques auctions, the first of which will take place on Friday and Saturday, […]
Sotheby’s New York announces that four masterworks by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still (1904-1980) will headline Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The four paintings come from the Estate of […]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer for sale on Tuesday 4 October 2011 the third and final selection of works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT). The thread of the sale: […]
The Titanic archive will be offered on the first day of the three-day sale, in Oceanside, N.Y. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A historically significant, museum-quality archive of material pertaining to the doomed ocean liner the RMS Titanic […]
InterAsia Auctions’ upcoming sale will take place on September 23-26. As you will notice, the sale will now take place over 4 days – September 23-26-because of the sheer volume of lots, again at the Park […]
Sotheby’s announces that the forthcoming Russian Art Sale Series this November will be highlighted by an Important Private Collection of Works by Alexander Benois. The 130 lot sale features exquisite works on paper spanning the artist’s […]
An audience eager for antique jewels helped make the September Fine Jewelry and Timepieces auction at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers a resounding success, realizing over $3 million. Fine jade jewelry, in particular, was in high demand from […]
Christie’s New York has announced fashion and accessories highlights from the four-day series of landmark sales devoted to the iconic Collection of Elizabeth Taylor, the celebrated film star, fashion icon, and humanitarian. Collected over five decades, […]
A Blockbuster Auction in Chicago Launches Fall Season (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart launched its Fall season with great aplomb on Saturday, September 17th in Chicago, selling 100% of the lots offered and achieving $5.3 […]
A developer’s dream up for online auction for pennies on the dollar The Lake County Tax Collector, Sandra Shaul, announced today that her office will hold an online tax sale auction for more than 100 prime […]
Christie’s will offer 14 works of art from a Private Collection at international auctions in London and New York in November 2011. Including an impressive selection of 20th century Irish art, the selection of works from […]
One of the iconic images of the Swinging Sixties by the artist Richard Hamilton, who died recently, is for sale at Bonhams Print Sale in London on 29 November. ‘Release’ shows Mick Jagger and Hamilton’s art […]
Swann Galleries’ autumn auction of African-American Fine Art on October 6 features many exciting discoveries—significant works by important artists that were previously unrecorded or never exhibited. The earliest piece in the sale is one of these […]
Bonhams Scotland is to establish two new departments at its Edinburgh flagship Headquarters in Queen Street. Asian Art and Books will join Paintings, Jewellery, Silver, Furniture, Clocks and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass, Sporting, […]
The same bottle in an amber coloration would probably sell for $1,800, as color is everything. (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – A Wormser Brothers barrel bitters bottle, made between 1867 and 1871 and quite possibly the only green […]
Sotheby’s New York announces that it will offer Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans across a series of sales this autumn in both New York and London. Furniture and decorative arts from the Collection […]