BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it will host an auction of Fine Oriental Rugs and Carpets at its Boston gallery, located […]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Marquis de Montesquiou, the celebrated Armagnac house, achieved groundbreaking results with their 1865 vintage at an April 25 Christie’s auction in New York. The vintage, which sold for an impressive price of 8,400 USD, was the […]
Sotheby’s May 12, 2009 evening sale of Contemporary Art in New York includes key examples by celebrated artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons, Alexander Calder, David Smith, Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ellsworth Kelly […]
Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings sale on Wednesday, June 3, 2009, features a choice group of 15 works by some of the most representative Spanish artists of the time: Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, Santiago Rusiñol, José Maria Sert, […]
Sale to feature works by Matisse, Picasso and Dalí, as well as a strong collection of Middle Eastern art BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and […]
The top lot of Swann Galleries’ Thursday, May 14 auction of Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs is a complete set of the 20 lavishly illustrated text volumes of Edward S. Curtis’s magnum opus, The North American […]
A rare Triumph 1800, similar to the one used in the popular detective series Bergerac, goes under the Charterhouse hammer in their Bank Holiday weekend sale at The Bristol Classic Car Show at The Royal Bath […]
Sotheby’s London will offer in its forthcoming Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History sale, to be held in London on Thursday 7th May 2009, a magnificent pair of 17th century terrestrial and celestial globes by the […]
Rediscovered Historic Object Estimated $60,000 to $80,000 BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, announces it will auction a 1947 Kentucky Derby 14 kt Gold Winner’s […]
The art of horology will be elegantly expressed on Tuesday, May 12, when Heritage Auction Galleries hosts its Signature Timepieces Auction at its’ uptown Dallas headquarters. This gathering of fine wristwatches and rare pocket watches marks […]
Clarke’s Sixth Fine Art Auction of May 4, 2009, one week from today, will feature 300 lots of paintings, sculpture, signed prints, artist books, and antique frames. The Rare Rare works include the second John Beigel […]
The 1954 William Dargie Portrait of H.M. Elizabeth II will go on sale at Bonhams Australian and International Fine Art Sale in Melbourne on 6th May, where it is expected to fetch between £25,000-35,000. In 1954, […]
Bonhams sold one of Atkinson Grimshaw’s finest paintings, a view of Headingley in Leeds, on 22nd April in a sale of 19th Century Paintings and Drawings at their Bond Street salerooms. The picture, `Autumn Afterglow’, was […]
A rare 1935 Bentley, one of only 2422 made between 1933-39, is going under the Charterhouse hammer in their sale of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia at The Bristol Classic Car Show at Shepton Mallet on […]
Stars For A Cause, a uniquely creative charity auction campaign, is set to showcase its collection of custom-made, hand-crafted jewellery and fashion accessories designed by a who’s-who list of Hollywood celebrities and worn on the red […]
Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its spring auction of Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art on May 4, 2009 in Los Angeles. The 170-lot sale, simulcast to the firm’s San Francisco gallery, should attract strong collector […]
A rare Beswick Merino ram is one of the highlights of the Charterhouse auction of Beswick and Royal Doulton in Sherborne on Friday 22nd May. “The Merino ram is one of the rarest of Beswick sheep […]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is selling a single shield 450-foot long, 820-ton, self-propelling, hard rock tunnel boring machine (TBM) with trailing gear at an upcoming three-day unreserved auction in Los Angeles […]