Yearly Archives: 2008

In Bonhams sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday 2 July, a wonderful and humorous oil on board, Granny with her Pet Mouse by Beryl Cook fetched more than double its estimate to realise a world record price of £69,600 for a work by the artist. A second work in the [Read More]

NEW YORK – Philadelphia businessman Jay T. Snider announced today, on the verge of the 232nd anniversary of American independence, the sale at auction of his preeminent Americana collection related to the City of Brotherly Love. Formed over the last fifteen years by Mr. Snider, this comprehensive collection chronicles the history and [Read More]

DALLAS – DGSE Companies, Inc. (AMEX:DGC), which wholesales, retails and auctions fine watches, jewelry, diamonds, precious metal and rare coin products via traditional and Internet channels, today announced its results for its Superior Galleries June 29, 2008 Beverly Hills Elite Jewelry and Time Piece Auction. This 700 plus lot auction, anchored by [Read More]

LONDON – The July 2008 Evening Sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s London achieved the phenomenal sum of £94,701,550 ($188,853,831) against a pre-sale estimate of £67.4 – 96.6 million, making it the most successful Summer sale of Contemporary Art in Europe. The sale had numerous high points throughout the evening, with records [Read More]

Well priced, good quality pictures by established artists proved popular at the Bay East Art Auction, held at Bonhams & Goodmans’s Waterloo premises on Sunday 29 June. One of the highlights of the sale were the bird paintings by Neville Cayley Junior, which were hotly contested. Lot 108, a watercolour titled Group [Read More]

Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame hosts a silent auction of an original Patience Brewster. An original work is now being auctioned at Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame in Canandaigua for the Sands Cancer Center. “Offering Thanks”, an original that was done in pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper from famed artist Patience [Read More]

VANCOUVER – Equipment buyers and sellers demonstrated their ongoing preference for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers’ full service unreserved industrial auctions last week, helping the Company set a number of new records – including the largest Atlanta and Australia auctions in Company history, as well as the highest total sales and total internet sales [Read More]

NEW YORK – Auctionblip, an international auction network delivering personalized auction information on a limitless variety of collectibles, today announced the re-launch of its unique and comprehensive online resource helping collectors maximize their search for specific items to add to their collections. The new Auctionblip will be completely free to the public [Read More]

LONDON – Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale took place on the 30 June 2008 and realised $171,879,508 – the highest total for the category at Christie’s in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Three Studies for a Self Portrait by Francis Bacon (1909-1992), a rare self-portrait triptych that [Read More]

LONDON – An early highlight of the evening auction was Madrid desde Torres Blancas by Antonio Lopez (b. 1936) which sold for £1,385,250 / $2,760,803 / €1,744,030, becoming the most expensive work by a living Spanish artist sold at auction. Created over a period of six years between 1976-82, Madrid desde Torres [Read More]

After soaring fuel prices and other kill-joy motoring news this year, Shannons are giving performance car enthusiasts something to really smile about at their Sydney Winter Classic Auction on Monday July 21. The diverse collection of high performance classic vehicles assembled for the auction includes serious heart starters from Australia, Germany and [Read More]

DUE TO THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE TO THE BONHAMS & GOODMAN INAUGURAL SALE OF COLLECTORS’ MOTOR CARS AND MOTORCYCLES IN NELSON, NEW ZEALAND, THE AUCTION HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE 14TH SEPTEMBER 2008. Following a remarkable response to their advertising campaign Bonhams & Goodman has decided to postpone their inaugural New Zealand Collector’s [Read More]

Bonhams next sale of Old Master Paintings at New Bond Street on 9 July 2008 will feature a stunning scene of the Piazza del Popolo in Rome by the Dutch landscape artist Gaspar van Wittel (1653-1736). Last seen at auction in 1923, the painting is expected to fetch £500,000-700,000. The view of [Read More]

July can be a time when some auctioneers slow down, but not so at Charterhouse where they have two major specialist sales. First up it their specialist auction of classic cars, motorbikes an automobilia (on the A30 near Milborne Port) at Blackmarsh Farm, Sherborne on Saturday 12th July. As the West Country’s [Read More]

Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. teams up with WorthPoint, a social network and search engine for collectors. Atlanta, GA – WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. [Read More]

Cheffins’ fame for vintage sales spreads to Ireland with a major dispersal auction sale of classic and vintage tractors, spares, modern farm machinery and equipment on Saturday 19th July, at Castlewarden, Kill, Co. Kildare. The sale comprises a collection of Fordson Major tractors, by direction of the executors of Alan Ross Deceased, [Read More]

Bargain hunters should be advised to visit the Dorotheum in the months of July and August in order to snap up some of it’s hot deals this summer: furniture, paintings and antiques will be up for auction, starting bids will be set at especially attractive minimums. The summer auctions will take place [Read More]

The one-off, 1954 Cramer Comet – powered by a WWII Allison fighter engine – will lead an exciting line-up of customs and hot rods at RM Auctions’ much-anticipated ‘Sports & Classics of Monterey’ event in California, August 15th and 16th, 2008. The two-day event will present over 180 investment quality automobiles for [Read More]