Bonhams’ Hong Kong inaugural wine auction held on 24 April 2008 at Crown Wine Cellars scored a few firsts. It was the first wine auction held in Hong Kong after the scrapping of wine duty and the first for a Bonhams Hong Kong auction to achieve a remarkable sell rate of 96.31 [Read More]
Daily Archives: May 12, 2008
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Dallas, TX – A pair of 1794 silver dollars and three Continental dollars are among the rarities included in the catalog for the Official Auction of the May 2008 Long Beach Coin Expo. The auction, being held in California May 28-30, is now posted by Heritage Auction Galleries on their HA.com website. [Read More]
New York, NY – On May 14-15, 2008, Sotheby’s will feature the work of a number of renowned Indian artists in its spring sales of Contemporary Art in New York. Highlighting the sales are works by Subodh Gupta, Anish Kapoor, Rameshwar Broota, T.V. Santosh, Chintan Upadhyay, Riyas Komu, Raqib Shaw and Bose [Read More]
On Monday 26 May, Bonhams & Goodman will conduct an auction of Fine Jewellery. The strongest Melbourne offering to date, this sale offers a broad cross section of jewellery and watches from all periods. Highlights include: Lot 200: A rhodonite elephant by Carl Faberge; Lot 220: A fine white and pink diamond [Read More]
On Sunday 18 May at 11am, Bonhams & Goodman will conduct an auction of artworks from the Mallesons Stephen Jaques collection. The sale will take place at Bonhams & Goodman’s Waterloo rooms at 224 Young Street. The auction of nearly 170 lots includes many collectable works by well known Australian artists. The [Read More]
It was particularly the contemporary art which sailed out of the saleroom at Bloomsbury’s 20th Century British Art sale on 8th May. The highlight was Sir Peter Blake’s Madonna of Venice Beach No. 2 (lot 169). It was the first time this witty and irreverent blend of renaissance and contemporary subject matter [Read More]
CHARLESTOWN, Mass – The USS Constitution Museum recently seized an unparalleled opportunity and purchased at a Sotheby’s auction one of its most significant acquisitions ever: a series of four paintings depicting USS CONSTITUTION’s battle against HMS GUERRIERE on August 19, 1812, by Salem artist George Ropes, Jr., dated 1813. These four paintings [Read More]
LONDON – A charming and personal selection of works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) from the collection of Lucia Bosé, the beautiful Italian movie star, is a highlight of Christie’s London sales of Impressionist and Modern Art in June 2008. The collection consists of 40 lots including works on paper, prints and ceramics [Read More]
AMSTERDAM – Sotheby’s Old Master Paintings sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam. Highlight of the sale was the hitherto unrecorded set of four landscapes representing ‘The Four Seasons’, by the Flemish master Sebastaen Vrancx (1578-1647) selling for €1.2 million – a world auction record for the artist and the second highest price ever fetched [Read More]
Emirates Auction holds the record for the top ten most expensive license plates sold worldwide, after Plate 9 sold for a record Dh15.4 million at Saturday’s auction in Abu Dhabi. “We now dominate the Top Ten chart after bumping off Hong Kong’s six-million-dirham Plate 9,” announced Abdulla Matar Al Mannaei, Managing Director [Read More]
A high-grade 1854 Type 2 gold dollar and a mint state 1920-S Saint-Gaudens $20 gold piece lead a list of highlights in Bowers and Merena Auctions’ June 4-7 sale at the Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention. The gold dollar is graded MS-68 by Numismatic Guaranty Corp. Sale catalogers said it is tied [Read More]
IRVINE, Calif. – Bowers and Merena, America’s leading rare coin and currency auction house, realized an impressive $5.9 million with its 1,000-lot Chicago Rarities Sale. The auction was conducted in a single session on April 15, 2008, with Internet bidding taking place prior to the sale through the Bowers and Merena website, [Read More]