Bloomsbury’s first Visual Arts sale of the season is Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings & Prints including Caricatures on 23rd October. The auction includes large groups of privately owned lots, which will certainly arouse considerable interest and the catalogue also boasts an introduction by Huon Mallalieu, the well known expert on British watercolours. [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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A 1936 Triumph Monte Carlo set a new world record price when it went under the Charterhouse hammer in their auction of classic cars, motorbikes & automobilia selling for £32,800. “The Triumph attracted a good deal of pre sale interest having hit the local and nation press with its great story of [Read More]
On 29 November Ketterer Kunst opens the doors of its new Munich headquarters. Guests will then be able to take a first tour of the new House for Art while keeping an eye on the 1909 Emil Nolde “Landscape” (estimate: € 800 000-1 200 000) which is to lead off at the [Read More]
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J., – Over 200 works from the Estate of Dan Berley will take center stage at Rago’s upcoming auction of 19th and 20th century photographs, on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3 PM. Dan Berley was a pioneer collector and a publisher of limited edition photography portfolios. Gallery owner Howard Greenberg [Read More]
TULSA, Okla., – The 36th Annual Kruse-Leake Collector Car Show and Auction will take place at Dallas Market Hall November 21-23. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Doors open on Friday at 10am and the auction will begin at 1pm. Doors open at 9am on Saturday and Sunday and [Read More]
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J., – Rago’s strongest sale of Post War and Contemporary art to date comes to auction on Saturday, November 15, 2008. It contains over 100 lots of paintings, works on paper and sculpture and another 100 lots of prints and photographs. “Curators and other arts professionals have been buying with us [Read More]
Keeneland, the world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house, has been chosen to market the sealed bid auction of the 20% minority ownership interest in reigning Horse of the Year Curlin. On September 25, Boone County Circuit Court Judge Roger Crittenden signed an order allowing Matthew L. Garretson (Garretson), the court-appointed Receiver for Midnight [Read More]
On Oct. 7, at its downtown Dallas headquarter, Heritage held its Space Exploration Auction for a rapt in-person audience and an engaged buying public bidding over the phone and via Heritage Live!, the gallery’s online, real time bidding service. When the rocket fuel had cleared the showroom and the Ethernet lines the [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions New York is pleased to announce its second sale of 20th Century Prints to be held November 5th 2008. The sale will showcase a broad selection of prints from the Modern, Contemporary and Pop periods. Highlights include works by Picasso, including Minotaure Caressant une Dormouse,from the masterful La Suite Vollard [Read More]
The sale, Under a Western Sky: the Art of Newlyn and St. Ives, is the first of its kind and recognises the importance of the artists who were drawn to Cornwall by its quiet beauty, simplicity of life and quality of light. The sale includes 19th and 20th Century paintings, sculpture, ceramics [Read More]
Charterhouse in Sherborne have been instructed to auction the studio contents from the late Barbara Tribe FRBS in their two day sale on Thursday 16th & Friday 17th October at The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, Dorset. “Barbara Tribe, who is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, was born in [Read More]
NEW YORK, NY – On October 28 and 29, Christie’s New York will hold its Prints and Multiples sale, offering original limited edition prints by leading artists, such as Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon. Highlights of the sale include two distinguished collections from the Collection of Wolfgang A. [Read More]
LONDON – Sir David Montagu Scott (1887-1986) and his wife, Valerie Finnis (1924-2006), were avid collectors of art – as well as devoted and celebrated gardeners – and during their lives they amassed an exceptional array of British pictures that incorporates Victorian and 20th Century British Art. In its range and freshness [Read More]
Two-Day Auction Features Herbert Nilson Collection of American Clocks, Session I BOSTON, Mass. – Oct 15, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host a two day Americana auction on November 1st and 2nd in its Boston gallery. On Saturday, November [Read More]
(Windsor, Conn.) – A beautifully rendered oil on canvas painting of a Florida landscape with figures, painted by the renowned German-born American artist Hermann Herzog (1832-1932), sold for $80,500 at a multi-estate sale held Oct. 11 by Nadeau’s Auction Gallery. Herzog, a centenarian, was known for landscapes and seascapes. His work was [Read More]
Boca Raton, FL – J. Sugarman Auction Corp announces that it will be conducting a Fine Art Auction being held at Kenneth Raymond Gallery on Saturday, October 18th, 2008. Kenneth Raymond Gallery began in 1964 in Boca Raton, Florida. The owners, Kenneth and Michellene Raymond have decided to retire after 44 years [Read More]
Decatur, AL – Amerisouth Auctions (www.amerisouthauctions) today announced a Multi-Property Mega Auction for Thursday, October 30, at 12 Noon, according to Emmette Barran, Principal. Featured Shelby and Chilton County properties include commercial acreage with frontage on I-65, prime residential development lots and raw land, townhomes, townhome development land, multi-family development land, commercial [Read More]
An unusual Moorcroft pig, named Peter, is just one on hundreds of lots of Moorcroft, Royal Crown Derby and other modern household names going under the Charterhouse hammer in their massive two day auction on Thursday 13th & Friday 14th November. “There is a huge selection of ceramics and glass entered into [Read More]