Well priced, good quality pictures by established artists proved popular at the Bay East Art Auction, held at Bonhams & Goodmans’s Waterloo premises on Sunday 29 June. One of the highlights of the sale were the bird paintings by Neville Cayley Junior, which were hotly contested. Lot 108, a watercolour titled Group [Read More]
Daily Archives: July 1, 2008
Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame hosts a silent auction of an original Patience Brewster. An original work is now being auctioned at Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame in Canandaigua for the Sands Cancer Center. “Offering Thanks”, an original that was done in pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper from famed artist Patience [Read More]
VANCOUVER – Equipment buyers and sellers demonstrated their ongoing preference for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers’ full service unreserved industrial auctions last week, helping the Company set a number of new records – including the largest Atlanta and Australia auctions in Company history, as well as the highest total sales and total internet sales [Read More]
NEW YORK – Auctionblip, an international auction network delivering personalized auction information on a limitless variety of collectibles, today announced the re-launch of its unique and comprehensive online resource helping collectors maximize their search for specific items to add to their collections. The new Auctionblip will be completely free to the public [Read More]
LONDON – Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale took place on the 30 June 2008 and realised $171,879,508 – the highest total for the category at Christie’s in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Three Studies for a Self Portrait by Francis Bacon (1909-1992), a rare self-portrait triptych that [Read More]
LONDON – An early highlight of the evening auction was Madrid desde Torres Blancas by Antonio Lopez (b. 1936) which sold for £1,385,250 / $2,760,803 / €1,744,030, becoming the most expensive work by a living Spanish artist sold at auction. Created over a period of six years between 1976-82, Madrid desde Torres [Read More]