Monthly Archives: April 2009

Bonhams and Goodman next Bay East Antiques & Interiors auction on 19 April 2009 at 11am sees a return to the regular monthly format featuring the broadest possible range of furniture and decorative arts, entirely from private collections. Highlights include a good selection of Baccarat and Lalique glass, Dutch and English silver, [Read More]

Two great icons of Modern Art will be featured in Sotheby’s May 5, 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York – Pablo Picasso’s La Fille de l’artiste à deux ans et demi avec un bateau from 1938 and Alberto Giacometti’s legendary sculpture, Le Chat from 1951. A rare [Read More]

Sale Features First Growth Bordeaux, DRC, Screaming Eagle Vega Sicilia Unico Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. will host an exceptional wine auction on Saturday, December 6th at 9:00 a.m at Tru restaurant. The sale will offer 938 lots of the world’s finest and rarest wines, including an exciting selection [Read More]

(BUFORD, Ga.) – A colored pencil on paper rendering, done in 1917 by Swiss self-taught artist Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), titled Blatt Aus Heft #15, sold for $40,480 at a folk art auction held March 28 by Slotin Auction. The framed piece, inscribed throughout, measured 11.25 inches by 16.25 inches and was in [Read More]

Paso Robles Wine Festival presents The Wine Country Auction—a new component to the popular Friday evening RESERVE event. The Wine Country Auction is quickly creating excitement for the 27th Annual Wine Festival slated for May 15–17, 2009. RESERVE takes place from 4–6 p.m. on Friday, May 15, in the beautiful Downtown City [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions, has announced its Spring Fine Art and Estates Auction. The auction features antiques, fine art and collectibles from estates in Massachusetts, California and beyond. The auction takes place Saturday and Sunday April 25-26 at Woodman’s Function Hall, 127 R. Main St., Essex, MA. Bidding commences at 10am each day and [Read More]

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A monumental, 10-foot-tall carved oak grandfather clock by R. J. Horner soared to $97,750 at a multi-estate sale held April 4 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. The clock was the top earner of the more than 400 lots that changed hands in a sale that grossed over $1.4 million. The [Read More]

Collectors, consignors and the curious alike can now get the inside scoop on hot lots coming down the pipe at Heritage Auction Galleries, along with insight, interviews and commentary from Heritage Auction Galleries staff at the company’s recently launched blog at www.HeritageAuctions.Blogspot.com. Posts are added each weekday. With three full months under [Read More]

Benefit Auction Specialists (www.benefitauctionhelp.com) announces a spring training for fundraising coordinators, according to Ron Leftwich, auctioneer. The spring training seminar is set for Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at the Manassas Baptist Church (Marstellar Annex) 8730 Sudley Road. “Our pre-event consultations with clients have helped them realize over half a million additional dollars [Read More]

A rare Frederic Church painting will highlight the May 20th American Paintings sale scheduled to take place at the New York galleries of international auctioneers, Bonhams. Titled Tropical Moonlight it is amongst the important paintings derived from Church’s travels around South America. Other paintings from this group include Heart of the Andes [Read More]

RBC Capital Markets today announced it is sponsoring an auction to benefit StreetWise Partners, the New York City-based non-profit organization that links volunteer business professionals with low-income adults to achieve good jobs and life-long employability. The 2nd annual auction will be held on April 20, 2009 at Christie’s Auction House in New [Read More]

Major works from realms of contemporary art and fashion as well as important master photographs will be offered at the forthcoming Phillips de Pury & Company Photographs sale to be held at the company’s London galleries on May 16 at 3 pm. Florian Maier-Aichen’s Untitled (Capsized Ship), 2002 is an early example [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – April 10, 2009 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host its semi-annual auction of Asian Works of Art this month in its Boston gallery. The sale will be offered in two sessions: Session I takes place on Friday, [Read More]

Kennedy Wilson to be Exclusive Broker for Pfizer Property Disposition in Portage, MI Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment company Kennedy Wilson, has been retained by Pfizer Inc as the broker of record for the disposition of 6901 Portage Road located just off Interstate [Read More]

Online Auction Listings are now ‘live’ on TractorHouse.com. Consistent TractorHouse advertisers now have the option to auction their equipment to a worldwide buying audience, 24/7/365. All machines are auctioned directly by dealers to registered bidders on the Web site. Seller’s fees are minimal, and there are no auction fees charged to buyers. [Read More]

Rare Canadian-built 1951 Mercury Monarch Convertible rings in the top sale of $192,500 at RM’s annual spring ‘Classic Car Auction of Toronto’ event in Mississauga, Ontario The official kick-off to the Canadian spring collector car season got off to a great start at RM’s recent ‘Classic Car Auction of Toronto’ held at [Read More]

Fixtures and fittings from The Shambles, a delightful museum of Victorian life, will be sold by Simon Chorley Art & Antiques on site at The Shambles, Church Street, Newent, Gloucestershire in a 4-day sale from Monday 18 to Thursday 21 May 2009. The Shambles is set in over an acre, and imaginatively [Read More]

Cordier Antiques & Auctions will be holding a Variety Antique & Collectible Auction on Sunday, April 19 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania (across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg). The auction will begin at 11am with a preview starting at 10am and extending through the auction. The sale will feature furniture and lighting (starting [Read More]