Monthly Archives: June 2008

Estate Auction makes available famed Navajo artist’s personal art collection and distinctive items from a lifetime of collecting TAOS, NEW MEXICO – It is already being called one of the most exciting auctions to take place in Northern New Mexico. The personal estate of famed Navajo artist and long-time Taos resident R.C. [Read More]

On Wednesday, June 17, Spink Smythe will hold its first Autograph Auction, bringing the finest in historical autographs to a truly international market. Manhattan, New York – On Wednesday, June 17, Spink Smythe will hold its first Autograph Auction, bringing the finest in historical autographs to a truly international market after the [Read More]

Web Wilson will present a short, sweet, antique doorknob auction that opens on Saturday, June 7, at 10 a.m. EDT. The auction is posted at AntiquesYes.com and bidding will stay open for a week, until Saturday, June 14. This is Web Wilson’s 57th antiques hardware auction, which over the years have offered [Read More]

LONDON – Christie’s has announced that they will offer The Peter Meyer Collection at the auction of 20th Century British Art on 6 June 2008 at Christie’s London. The finest and most comprehensive selection of 20th Century British Art to be offered at auction for a generation, the collection was assembled during [Read More]

Fuquay Varina, NC – Blue Hound Auctions, LLC has announced that it signed on to proxy bids on-line listing service in order to facilitate customers’ needs for an on-line venue for their consignment goods. Proxybid, which is immersed is a premier provider for live auctions Broadcasting Services allows buyers to continue in [Read More]

Pasadena, CA – On Tuesday evening, July 22nd, 2008, John Moran Auctioneers is very proud to offer “Die Teufelssonate,” an ink on paper by renowned German/American artist Lionel Feininger (1871-1956), as part of their Antique and Fine Furnishings Estate Sale. Lionel Feininger is best known for his work which fused Cubism with [Read More]

Fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields present Native American and pre-Columbian art from trusts, estates and private and institutional collections on Monday, June 9, 2008 in San Francisco. Highlights include pottery and baskets, weavings and jewelry, as well as kachinas and desirable collectibles of the Southwest, California and the Northwest Coast. The [Read More]

With DOTmed.com fast-approaching 100,000 registered users worldwide, and getting more than 12,000 unique visitors a day from across the globe, we felt it definitely was time to start offering key areas of our website in multiple languages. And the place we’ve started offering translations is with DOTmed Auctions. Go to any Auction, [Read More]

Collections from the estates of Countess Constance Denson and Cathryn Keith to be featured BOSTON, Mass. – June 4, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, today announced that its upcoming auction of fine jewelry will be held in the Boston gallery on Tuesday, June 17th at [Read More]

(Aurelia, Ia.) – A rare Wave Crest egg crate mold hinged box sold for $8,600 at the sale of The Brinkman Collection held May 24-25 at the recently opened Aurelia Community Center. Over the course of many years, Mary Brinkman and her late husband Jim amassed a huge collection of European and [Read More]

The Adelaide Bank has announced the appointment of Bonhams & Goodman to conduct the auction of its corporate art collection. The collection, to be auctioned at Bonhams & Goodman’s Adelaide premises in November, includes 238 works valued at $1.3 million. Highlights include Arthur Boyd’s Shoalhaven Landscape (1988) (pictured) estimated to fetch between [Read More]

Bloomsbury’s first Posters sale was well received by both collectors and dealers who were pleased to have a new player in the market place. The sale had been deftly put together by the renowned expert Richard Barclay. It is both interesting and encouraging that there were at least 5 or 6 private [Read More]

ATLANTA & OMAHA, Neb – Atlanta-based WorthPoint Corporation, a Web site that provides detailed information on art, antiques, and collectibles, has signed a partnership with Omaha-based Proxibid, a Webcasting service that works with auctioneers to bring live Internet bidding to an online audience. Proxibid and WorthPoint will fill the void left by [Read More]

Offerings included photographs once owned by famous American motion picture critic, author and director Pare Lorentz Prints and Photographs from estates, trusts, and private and institutional collections brought more than $2.7-million at Bonhams & Butterfields on May 20-21, 2008, during the two-day auction simulcast to salesrooms in both San Francisco and Los [Read More]

A 1963 Holden EH Special Station Wagon, restored by disadvantaged young people with the encouragement of the late Peter Brock, has turned in one of the more impressive auction results of recent times, and all for charity, at the Shannons Melbourne Winter Classic Auction last night as more than $600,000 of vehicles [Read More]

Wellington, OH – The estate auction of the late Auctioneer Dominick Yerace brings many rare and unique items to the publics view for the first time ever. The inventory is so massive that it will be conducted on two days and in two locations. The first day of the two day event [Read More]

DULUTH, Ga. & PLEASANTON, Calif – AGCO Corporation, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, and IronPlanet (www.ironplanet.com), the world’s leading online auction company for used construction and agricultural equipment, today announced a partnership to benefit AGCO dealers. The joint initiative provides AGCO’s 1,200 North American dealers a faster and more [Read More]

artnet launches Modern & Contemporary Prints Sale featuring works by Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Banksy, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol. 100 works by 45 modern and contemporary artists – Price estimates range between US $1,000 and US $55,000 – June 2-20, 2008 New York / Berlin – From June 2-20, [Read More]