Monthly Archives: September 2008

DALLAS, TX – When Heritage opens the floor bidding on its inaugural 20th Century Art & Design Auction, the world’s third largest auctioneer will be doing much more than christening a new auction department within its formidable organization; Heritage will be shining a huge spotlight on the City of Dallas, showing the [Read More]

ALBRIGHT, W. Va. – Dream Mountain Game Ranch – a 1,150-acre property where hunters have paid more than $15,000 for a weekend to hunt whitetail deer and elk – will be sold at auction on Thursday, Oct. 23, with Albert Burney Auction Company managing the sale. The ranch was operated as a [Read More]

ZURICH – At the annual auction of Swiss Art in Zurich on 1 December 2008, Christie’s will offer the most important work by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss ever presented at auction; the installation Der Lauf der Dinge, 1987 (The way things go, 1987) and the 16mm reel of the [Read More]

LARCHMONT, NY – In 1998, two Irishmen from Dublin, one the pioneer of a Bronx antiques district and the other an alumnus of Doyle New York, agreed to join forces in a new auction house. Ronan Clarke arrived here after years in London in the music and flea businesses, often hard to [Read More]

ORLANDO, Fla – Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty ( www.StirlingSIR.com) will host a global auction of selected luxury homes and properties at the renowned Ginn Resorts — Reunion, Bella Collina and Hammock Beach – all in the heart of Central Florida. Ginn Reunion Resort is a luxury golf community that offers recreational amenities [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – The New York Jets today announced a partnership with StubHub to auction the best seats in the New Jets Stadium — the Coaches Club. The auction will start on Sunday, October 19, and run through Monday, October 27, 2008 exclusively on StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace. The [Read More]

Charlotte, NC – Real estate investors and owner-occupants alike looking for real estate bargains will have their opportunity on Saturday, October 18th in Charlotte, NC. The auction will be conducted by locally operated Chartwell Auctions, Gordon Greene Broker and Auctioneer. As many as four parcels will be offered absolute, without reserve, and [Read More]

The Empress Josephine and Tsar Nikolas I were early admirers of their work: whereas Napoleon’s first wife acquired several paintings by Jan-Frans van Dael for her gallery, Carl Timoleon von Neff was the favourite painter of Tsar Nikolas I. Two major works by these artists are to go under the hammer at [Read More]

AMSTERDAM – Wonderful examples of 19th century Dutch painting will be offered at Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Wednesday 15 October 2008. The landscapes, ice scenes, marines and town views, painted by Dutch masters of Romanticism and of the Impressionist Hague School, are offered from international collections, including important private collections from Canada and [Read More]

LONDON – Following the tremendous result achieved last night for the Evening session of Beautiful Inside My Head Forever – Sotheby’s historic and ground-breaking two-day auction of new works by Damien Hirst – the Day Sale continued to attract unprecedented interest, bringing the combined total for the entire two-day auction to the [Read More]

London – On 20 October, Christie’s will present the 7th edition of The Italian Sale in its historical salerooms in London. This annual auction will offer an exceptional selection of twentieth century Italian Art by the most renowned and internationally sought-after artists including Alberto Burri, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Mario Merz [Read More]

(Oceanside, N.Y.) – An original “Peanuts” Sunday page, rendered in pen and ink in May 1953 by the late comic illustrator Charles Schulz, soared to $67,800 at a multi-estate sale held Sept. 13-14 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The eight-panel strip showed Charlie Brown and Snoopy playing fetch. In addition, two daily “Peanuts” [Read More]

A stunning milk white marble bust of Ranjit Singh sculpted in India around 1900 is to sell for £50,000 to £70,000 at Bonhams next Indian and Islamic Sale on 6 October. This great Emperor of the Sikhs built an empire which stretched almost from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. His court [Read More]

A 19th-century percussion target pistol made by Morgan James, New York State gunsmith, will be sold at auction on Saturday, September 20, at Hesse Galleries in Otego, New York. James was born in 1815. He began making firearms in 1830 when he was only fifteen. He worked mostly in Utica, New York, [Read More]

EDMONTON, ALBERTA – More than 4,100 people from 21 countries registered to bid on CA$41 million (US$39 million) of construction, transportation, forestry, agricultural and other industrial equipment sold at an unreserved public auction in Alberta last week. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, conducted the auction [Read More]

A 1945 Supermarine Spitfire aircraft was sold for a record price of over $3 million NZD, the highlight of Bonhams and Goodman’s highly anticipated inaugural New Zealand sale of Collectors’ Cars and Aircraft. The sale, conducted on Sunday 14 September in Nelson, New Zealand, was attended by a crowd of over 500 [Read More]

Hotspur and Jeremy, two of London’s long-established top antiques dealerships, are to cease trading later this year and hold a joint sale of their stock at Christie’s. LONDON – Christie’s announce Dealing in Excellence: A Celebration of Hotspur & Jeremy on Thursday, 20 November 2008. Two of the greatest names in the [Read More]

Highlights for H&H’s upcoming sale at the Haynes Motor Museum on October 12th. 1924 Bugatti Type 30 Tourer Bought by a group of friends during the 1930s, WW2 resulted in the Bugatti being barn-stored for decades until entering its current family ownership. Rebodied as a dual-cowl tourer but retaining matching engine and [Read More]