Yearly Archives: 2008

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]

Mastro Auctions, the world’s leading Sports and Americana auction house, has announced that it will be offering phenomenal Babe Ruth items acquired by legendary restaurateur, Jimmy Donohue. The historically significant items will be auctioned in several of Mastro Auctions’ upcoming sales. For more than half a century, Jimmy Donohue’s restaurants were well-known [Read More]

Chagall, Faberge and Burliuk among the greats represented, Nov. 14, at Heritage Auction Galleries Ilya Mashkov, one of the great masters of the Russian avant-garde painting movement, and a founder of the famous “Jack of Diamonds” Group, has long been venerated by Russian art lovers and collectors for his inimitable style and [Read More]

California’s oldest and largest auctioneer, Bonhams & Butterfields, will offer contemporary art from the Golden State in its November 18, 2008 Made in California sale. Though regional in theme, the sale includes artwork by internationally known artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Ed Ruscha, Mark di Suvero, and Robert Arneson. But with estimates [Read More]

Despite initially strong buzz leading up to the sale, Ronan Clarke was nervous as he stepped to the podium Monday evening to open his Fifth Annual Fine Art Auction October 27th. The day found the stock market swinging wildly again and several bidders had just telephoned to announce they were canceling their [Read More]