Artfact is pleased to announce eight exceptional Asian Art auctions in the month of March are available for online bidding exclusively through Artfact Live! Artfact allows you to participate New York’s Asia Week no matter where you are with nearly 3,000 lots available for online bidding. The action begins at Freeman’s Asian Arts sale on the 20th. On the 21st Hong Kong Auction Gallery will offer two sales: one in Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy and another in Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. Doyle New York will host Asian Works of Art on the 22nd and in ... Read the full story

Sotheby’s to Sell Important American Indian, African, Oceanic and Other Works of Art from the Studio of Enrico Donati 14 May 2010Sotheby’s is pleased to announce the sale of Important American Indian, African, Oceanic and Other Works of Art from the Studio of Surrealist painter Enrico Donati, which will be sold as a single-owner collection 14 May 2010 at 2pm. Comprising approximately forty lots of works from Donati’s New York studio housed in the landmark Gainsborough Building on Central Park South, the sale will be exhibited alongside the various owners sale of ... Read the full story

On Sunday, March 28th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell 460 lots including hundreds of items stored in a locked and darkened warehouse since the late 1970’s. Ronan Clarke, founder and owner of Clarke Auction, wasn’t sure what he would find when he finally unlocked the door of the decaying warehouse. He had quickly viewed the estate in 2005 and remembered tripping over great things in the dark. But then the estate vanished. Five years later, as he finally got a second chance, spectacular pieces from an untouched collection emerged from the gloom. An ... Read the full story

More than 90 Luxury vehicles at Pickles Auctions Luxury, Exotic and 4WD motor vehicles will go under the hammer on behalf of Finance companies (Repossessions), Fleet Lease companies and other vendors in the first quarterly Luxury Auction for 2010. The massive auction will be held in Sydney on Monday 29 March at 6.00 pm and it is predicted that the sale will attract media attention and hundreds, if not thousands of bidders. Branch Manager – Belmore – Steve Allen says “The quarterly auction attracts an enormous amount of interest, with buyers having the ... Read the full story

After a stunning success in 2009 for their very first live auction and multiple online auctions each month since last July, new auction house Spectrum Wine Auctions has confirmed dates and locations for their first live auction of 2010, another global event. The auction takes place simultaneously on Saturday, April 24 at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, and on Sunday, April 25 at Crown Wine Cellars in Hong Kong. The auction will present more than 850 lots, which includes collections of two anchor consignors: The Aubrey ... Read the full story

The auction of 7 & 9 White Water Lane in The Strand at Headlands in Dana Point, only steps from the Pacific Ocean, has been moved to Saturday, April 17, announced George Graham, CEO of Concierge Auctions. The new date will give the market additional time to recognize the rare opportunity offered by this auction. “This is a fully transparent, live auction. The seller is taking the risk of selling the property for significantly below their cost. The owner is committed to our auction process and is obligated to sell to the highest bidder at or above the $6.9 ... Read the full story

GunBroker.com®, the world’s largest online auction site for firearms and hunting/shooting accessories, has partnered with Spokes360 to grow its advertising base while providing additional value to its ever-expanding community of hunting, shooting and outdoor enthusiasts. With over 1.5 million registered users, 2.8 million unique monthly visitors and 150 million monthly page views, GunBroker.com is consistently ranked as a top 1,000 website according to Quantcast. The company’s partnership with Spokes360 marks GunBroker.com’s first significant program to ... Read the full story

Treasure Auction #7 In three sessions, Wednesday-Friday, April 7-9, 2010 As usual our latest Treasure Auction is full of surprises, but this time we feel it is also very well balanced across many fields, with more general world coins than ever before. Here are some highlights: In great deference to the Sedwick patriarch, for the first time ever we are offering selections from the Frank Sedwick study collection of 1715-Fleet gold cobs, including plate coins from past editions of the Practical Book of Cobs and other pieces never seen or offered for sale, coins that the ... Read the full story

Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of 56-foot Sea Ray sedan bridge yacht in Algonac, Mich., according to Jerry Jenkins. “This is a 2002 Sea Ray yacht with over $200,000 in options,” Jenkins said. Upgrades include: T-man 2840LE4 V10 (T10) , forward deck sunpad, aft cockpit full bench, live baitwell system, Fabrica carpet upgrade, DSS satellite tv system, water filtration system, Raypilot autopilot, Transformer Shore Power I, Radar RL80c with open ARR, Ultrawood Interior, Sea Ray navigator and more. Also up for ... Read the full story

Christie’s has announced that they will offer an exceptionally important and highly celebrated masterpiece by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on 23 June 2010. Painted by the most influential artist of the 20th century, Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, 1903 comes from the artist’s celebrated Blue Period, arguably the greatest period in Picasso’s career. The painting will be priced at £30 million to £40 million and all the proceeds will benefit The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, a charity founded by ... Read the full story

The Roy Rogers Personal Firearms & Hunting Collection will be sold at Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction (www.DenverOldWest.com) at the Denver Merchandise Mart. Roy’s firearms will be sold including his very first belt and double holster rig, made by Ed Gilmore of North Hollywood, CA in 1938, his gold-plated 101 Ranch revolvers, the shotgun he bought off Clark Gable, and one of Dale Evans’ only guns, a pearl handled Colt. The collection includes antique, modern & commemorative firearms. Artifacts supporting Roy’s avid hunting interests will be offered ... Read the full story

LoopNet, Inc, which operates the largest online commercial real estate marketplace, today announced that it has completed a strategic investment in AuctionPoint, Inc., a leading provider of broker-friendly online commercial property auction solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded by experienced technology entrepreneur Joe Tang and commercial real estate developer Keith Yang, AuctionPoint’s state-of-the-art auction engine keeps the broker at the center of the auction process. Unlike traditional commercial property auctions, AuctionPoint’s easy-to-use ... Read the full story

An extremely rare poster protesting against the hanging of a prominent black Jamaican citizen and printed in Birmingham by E.C. Osborne of Bennett’s Hill as part of a campaign for a Royal Commission is being offered by Bonhams at its Manuscript, Maps and Books Sale at 101 New Bond Street on 23 March. George Gordon, a magistrate and elected member of the island’s Assembly, was executed on trumped up charges following the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865. A long standing and effective spokesman for the landless black community, Gordon was loathed by the white ... Read the full story

Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that it has teamed with VeriSign, the global registry operator for the .tv internet domain, to hold an exclusive auction for the entire available catalog of 115 premium .tv domain names at the standard registry renewal fee, which is a greatly reduced renewal price. Sedo has the exclusive right to offer this broad selection of highly valuable numeric, generic and geographic .tv online destinations, including Beauty.tv, Bloopers.tv, Business.tv, Cable.tv, Films.tv, Finance.tv, Home.tv, ... Read the full story

(CHESAPEAKE, Va.) – Part 3 of the estate of Carl and Barbara Moulton – comprising the couple’s lovely home at 200 Tara Circle in Chesapeake, plus over 700 lots of antiques and collectibles – will be sold at the home itself in an on-site auction slated for Saturday, Apr. 17, at 9 a.m. The auction will be conducted by Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals, based in Suffolk, Va. “I’m not going to say we saved the best for last, because there were some truly outstanding items sold in Parts 1 and 2,” said Tom Perry of Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals, “but ... Read the full story