BOSTON, Mass. – December 03, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts in its Boston gallery on December 20th at 10 a.m. The sale will feature more than 750 lots of furniture and decorative and utilitarian [Read More]
Daily Archives: December 3, 2008
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James Bond’s Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me fetches £111,500 at London auction With the 007 movie Quantum of Solace bringing James Bond back into the public eye, Bonhams today (1 December 2008) sold the 1976 Lotus Esprit, driven by Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me, for £111,500. The [Read More]
Hanns Bolz was one of the most influential precursors of Modernism in the early 20th century. A contemporary of his, the writer Karl Otten, pronounced that Bolz’s “pictures went further than even Delaunay and Picasso dared to go”. Many of Hanns Bolz’s works are believed lost since he left explicit instructions in [Read More]
Christie’s have announced an extraordinary group of watercolors by the great 19th century British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. The five watercolors, including four landscapes and one rare study of a woman’s face, will be among the highlights of Christie’s Important Old Master Paintings auction on January 28, 2009. The group comes [Read More]