Following its successful inaugural sale of Contemporary art at Bonhams’ recently opened and spectacular Madison Avenue showrooms, the international fine art auctioneers will mount another highly-anticipated auction of Contemporary and post-war art on November 11. The sale should attract strong collector interest for its quality and diversity. Some highlights of the well [Read More]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
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North Shore Animal League America will roll out the Red Carpet for celebrities and their pets at their upcoming, star-studded event, the third annual DogCatemy Celebrity Gala on November 6th at Capitale, NYC. As is typical for a fundraiser, the animal charity, the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption agency, is [Read More]
Bloomsbury’s sales of Modern British Art are becoming stronger and more exciting with every auction. The core of the Modern British Art sale (13th November) is a powerful selection of pre-war British Surrealist artists including William Roberts, John Tunnard, Eileen Agar, John Buckland-Wright and Stanley William Hayter. In 1926 Hayter moved to [Read More]
A late 18th century Chinese bowl, decorated flowers and foliage in underglaze blue, sold for £18,000 at the Charterhouse October auction. When the vendor was notified of the result, she was absolutely delighted and will put some of the money towards her trip over Christmas when she will be visiting family in [Read More]
The Charterhouse two day auction of over 1,300 lots on Thursday 13th & Friday 14th November has a vast array of items for someone looking to secure an early present for a loved one. “We are still extremely busy with our auctions which have wide appeal to our clients, whether they are [Read More]
The proceeds from the autumn Modern Art & Post War and Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century /Marine Art auctions held at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on 24 and 25 October 2008 amounted to more than € 2 500 000*. The autumn proceeds almost match those achieved at the spring [Read More]
More than 50 celebrity astronauts, including John Glenn, Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, are offering once-in-a-lifetime one-on-one experiences, cool space artifacts and autographed items in the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s (ASF) 6th Annual Online Auction of Astronaut Experiences and Memorabilia at http://astronautscholarship.org/2008_auction.pl which opens on, October 31, 2008. Now, bidders will have the [Read More]
NEW YORK – Sotheby’s announced that its fall sales will feature two rare masterpieces by Puerto Rico’s most acclaimed eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists, José Campeche y Jordan (1751-1809) and Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833-1917). On the afternoon of November 12, Sotheby’s London will offer Oller’s epic painting La Batalla de Treviño (est. [Read More]