BOSTON, Mass. – Nov 14, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of Fine Oriental Rugs and Carpets at its Boston gallery, located at 63 Park Plaza on Saturday, December 6th at noon. More than 300 lots will be offered from prayer rugs, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
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MacDougall auctioneers has announced the highlights of their 3 Sales during the upcoming London Russian Art Week, presenting a collection of more than 550 Lots. Last June’s Russian Art Week saw MacDougall’s exceed £12.4 million in sales, outselling Christies, Bonhams and Phillips, to become the second largest auction house for Russian Paintings. [Read More]
A rare and charming painting by one of the 20th century’s most famous modern abstract painters, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), has surfaced at auction in London for the first time in years, after spending decades in a private collection. Lot 35 – “Au bord de la mer” – is expected to fetch £100,000-150,000 [Read More]
A West Country landmark is up for sale when two Sherborne train station signs go under the Charterhouse hammer in their specialist sale of trains and railwayana at The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne on Thursday 11th December. “The signs, which graced the station for many years, have, not surprisingly, been entered for [Read More]
Sotheby’s Milan will hold an auction on Monday 17 November 2008, 6.00 p.m. The catalogue – consisting of over 140 lots – opens with a pictorial group of Fondo oro panels among which is a striking gold-ground painting by Salomone de’ Grassi, The Trinity, commissioned by the Visconti family. Salomone, a renowned [Read More]
Following on the heels of the recent successful offering of property from the Wanamaker-de Heeren Family Collection, enthusiasts of old-world elegance are eagerly awaiting the Bonhams November 20th New York sale of European furniture, decorative arts, silver, rugs and carpets. The auction features property from several prominent private collections and estates, highlighted [Read More]
Minnesota Timberwolves’ rookie Kevin Love is helping kick off the inaugural Rookie Relief for St. Jude (www.stjude.org/rookierelief), a fundraising campaign to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital(R), one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer centers. As ambassador of the campaign, Love joins the NBA’s top rookies and select league veterans in donating [Read More]
Following the successful inaugural London sale in December 2007, Christie’s is delighted to announce the second sale of Modern and Contemporary Australian and South African Art on Tuesday, 16 December 2008; the sale brings the best artworks from Australia and South Africa to the London marketplace. Many of the works offered have [Read More]
On Monday, November 24, 2008, Sotheby’s London will hold its bi-annual Russian Art Evening Sale, as part of its Russian Art Sales Week. The auction will offer for sale masterworks by some of Russia’s greatest artists, including Ivan Aivazovsky, Vladimir Makovsky, Boris Grigoriev, Nikolai Roerich, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Alexander Yakovlev and [Read More]
On Dec. 7, Estate Roadshow Auctions will conduct the first in a series of sales to disperse the remarkable personal collection and early store stock of Connecticut antiques dealer Louise Mondani Graham, who died in August. The initial session will consist entirely of fine and costume jewelry, much of which was purchased [Read More]
Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. of Rockingham, NC has been chosen to conduct the 1st Annual Boone Hall Plantation Antique & Specialty Car Auction. Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, SC is America’s most photographed plantation. It has been the site of numerous feature films & commercials for television & movies. Located [Read More]
Andi Charkow’s November 15 Vintage Clothing & Textile Auction, to be held at the Horsham V.F.W. on Sawmill Lane in Horsham, Pennsylvania, is filled with treasures. With a little under 700 photos on Auctionzip.com, it looks like there is something for everyone, in every price range. The sale contains a wonderful choice [Read More]
(Oak Park, Ill.) – An important Tiffany Studios table lamp in the Peony pattern is expected to bring $100,000-$150,000 at an Arts & Crafts, Modern and Fine Art Sale slated for Sunday, Dec. 7, at the John Toomey Gallery. The lamp boasts a bronze base with sculpted and applied designs under a [Read More]
The Estate of the late John Washington Graham & Dorothy Cummings Graham of the Wessington House in Edenton, NC will be sold on November 22, 2008. This Estate Auction of exciting Fine & Decorative Arts features objects from the Graham, Cameron, Collins, and Shepard families. These four prominent families had strong political, [Read More]
NEW YORK – In its second Evening Sale of the week, Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, achieved $147 million for paintings and sculpture with top lots from Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky commanding the highest prices. The sale follows Wednesday’s Evening Sale of two single-owner collections, The Modern [Read More]
LONDON – Three centuries of British Art on Paper, exemplifying the dramatic power and also calm beauty captured in the best figure and landscape drawings, watercolours and rare pastels, are offered in Christie’s sale on Wednesday, 10 December 2008. Kick starting British Art Week, this auction features a remarkable range of over [Read More]
The sale on 20 November, covers all styles and periods with a real emphasis on quality pieces. A great example of a classic quality lot, is the Contemporary 18 Carat White Gold Diamond Three Stone Ring (lot 454), whose certificated rectangular step cut diamond weighs 1.36 carat, and is excellently proportioned, beautifully [Read More]
Two of the rarest chairs to ever come onto the market will go under the hammer at Bonhams & Goodman’s Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction in Sydney on Monday 10 November. Constructed entirely of whalebone, the chairs are the only known life-size examples of whalebone furniture. Bonhams & Goodman’s National Head [Read More]