Monthly Archives: April 2009

Christie’s Russian Art sale set a world auction record for Svetoslav Roerich with a painting of his father entitled, Portrait of Nicholas Roerich in a Tibetan Robe, 1933, which sold for $2,994,500. The painting led Russian Art week in New York, and exceeded the pre-sale high estimate of $1,100,000. The previous record [Read More]

Following the recent earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy, Sotheby’s in association with the Municipality of Milan, Mondadori Publishing House and Casaviva magazine will hold a charity auction on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 7pm of 70 chairs by some of the world’s most important designers, to raise funds for the people of Abruzzo. [Read More]

For the first time in its 44-year history, the world-famous Hollywood Wax Museum is offering hand-sculpted wax figures and original costumes for auction. Over 200 figures, including top stars, musicians, athletes, and historical individuals that have been seen by millions of visitors in Hollywood, CA and Branson, MO from the 1970s to [Read More]

Then, on June 13th, the living estate of Katherine Creamer, an antiques lover from Mobile, Alabama. After that — a pair of important on-site estate and property sales, in Oxford, Miss., and Macon, Miss. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The antique collections of three prominent old family estates from across the Deep South will [Read More]

100 photographs by 50 artists from 1850 to the present Estimates from $500 to $50,000 New York / Berlin – From April 24-30 artnet Online Auctions will feature April in Paris, a special sale of 100 photographs by 50 renowned artists including Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, André Kertész and Willy Ronis. Modern Masters [Read More]

VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct a large auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other agencies that are participating include: U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service and Secret Service. Proceeds from the auction [Read More]

Sotheby’s annual sale of American Indian Art, including Property from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal in New York will take place on May 20, 2009. The sale will feature several distinguished private collections, among them: The Estate of Herbert Wellington; Property from the Collection of Morton and Estelle Sosland, sold [Read More]

Dedham, MA – Grogan & Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers held their annual spring auction, The April Auction, on Sunday, April 19th. The auction, comprised over 500 lots of Fine Art, 18th and 19th century Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs, netted over 1.3 million dollars in [Read More]

WWA Group, Inc. (OTCBB:WWAG) today announced that it has surpassed $1 billion in gross auction sales and that its April 20th – 22nd, 2009 auction in Dubai attracted more registered and successful bidders than any other in the company’s history. The realization of $1 billion in gross auction sales, of which nearly [Read More]

Treasures from the personal collection of the late entertainment icon and entrepreneur Merv Griffin will be sold at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, California on Sunday afternoon, May 3, 2009. Clars will hold a Public Preview on Friday, May 1st 1PM to 6PM and Saturday, May 2nd and Sunday, May 3rd beginning [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York spring sale of African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art will be held on May 15, 2009, and will offer collectors a selection of tribal arts from important American and international private collections. The sale will comprise an especially rich offering of Oceanic works of art, several of which are [Read More]

The Ex-Maharajah of Bharatpur and Robert Gove’s 1931 Horch Cabriolet to Headline Auction on Sunday 3 May 2009 This fascinating car was presented to to Robert Gove of Victoria from the Maharajah of Bharatpur in the 1930s in exchange for horses. The Gove family had supplied the Maharajahs with fine horses of [Read More]

A splendid Ming dynasty jar, a rare survivor from a vanished era of Imperial Chinese prestige, will be offered at Bonhams New Bond Street on 14 May. Created in the reign of the Emperor Jiajing (AD1522-66), and estimated at up to £250,000, it comes from the collection of the Palmer family, of [Read More]

Over 400 lots will be included in this auction. Some of the items include surgical tools, mess items, knives, dug artifacts, personal effects of soldiers, artillery shells, cannon balls, flasks, bullets, musical instruments, civil war tokens, letters, documents, confederate money, bonds, photographs, Nazi silver, WWII memorabilia, weapons, publications, and more. The auction [Read More]

This year the Jonas Brothers agreed to autograph an electric Les Paul guitar in support of the Save the Earth Foundation’s Earth Day auction. This benefit online auction features autographed sports and music memorabilia from some of the most famous sports figures and rock and roll stars. Save The Earth invites music [Read More]

Ketterer Kunst is celebrating its new House for Art directly at Neue Messe Munich with the sale of important works dating from the 15th to the 21st centuries at four Grand Welcome Auctions to be held on 19/20 June 2009. “I’m very glad indeed that we can now present our new domicle [Read More]

Marquis de Montesquiou, the celebrated Armagnac house, announces the auction of a rare 1865 vintage Armagnac. As a preview of the celebrations marking the 700th anniversary of Armagnac in 2010, collectors will have the opportunity to own a piece of history at an April 25 auction at Christie’s in New York. Since [Read More]

They’re young, brave and hopeful, battling the cancers that still claim too many of their lives and leave too many with permanent neurological and other effects. They’re the children in our neighborhoods waiting for a cure. Teeing up for a cure are former Eagle, Vince Papale, and a host of other sports [Read More]