Monthly Archives: June 2009

An Auction of Finest and Rarest Wines Including an Outstanding Selection from a Prominent Restaurant brought the attention of bidders from all over the world to Chicago this weekend. The room was nearly full with active bidders from around the world including strong participation on the Internet and telephones. The competition was [Read More]

WWA Group, Inc. (OTCBB: WWAG) today announced the conclusion of its most recent auction held at WWA Group’s Dubai facility over the period June 22, 23 and 24, 2009. Gross auction sales exceeded US$18.29 million and involved more than 360 registered bidders from 20 countries. Equipment consigned by 145 consignors from 11 [Read More]

The Charles Martignette Collection of Illustration Art will make its public debut on Wednesday, July 15, as the focus of Heritage Auction Galleries’ Signature® Illustration Art Auction; it’s safe to say that the world of illustration art collecting – and Fine Art collecting – will be forever changed once the rare and [Read More]

Fine Jewellery continues to weather the financial storm with solid results acheived at a Bonhams and Goodman auction in Sydney on June 30th. The day began with a 415 lot Affordable Jewellery auction which sold a remarkable 91.5% by volume and 108% by value, followed by the 248 lot Fine Jewellery auction [Read More]

More than 500 U.S. and world bank notes will be offered in the Official Auction of the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money® conducted by Bowers and Merena Auctions at the Los Angeles Convention Center and online, August 2 – 8, 2009. One of the many highlights is an 1870 $100 [Read More]

Auction Held in Two Sessions: October 10th and October 24th Wright Widely Recognized as Prominent Doll Expert and Discerning Collector BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced that it will offer the Richard Wright Collection at auction in October [Read More]

Approximately 75 properties valued in excess of $250 million will be offered for sale in NAI Global’s July Commercial Property PowerSale(TM), an ongoing series of national, multi-seller online auctions and sealed-bid sales. Approximately 58 of the properties in the July Commercial Property PowerSale(TM) will be offered online via a timed auction format. [Read More]

RM Classic Cars to conduct collector car sale completely via the Internet August 9, 2009 at www.rmauctions.com RM Classic Cars is leading the way in the collector car hobby by offering buyers and sellers of vintage and special interest automobiles a convenient and credible means of conducting business over the Internet with [Read More]

New York / Berlin, – artnet Auctions sale of Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits showed strength in the photographs market as the ten-day online photographs auction concluded June 25 with $135,000 in sales (including 10% buyer’s premium). The sale featured over 200 original fine art photographs of legends of fashion, film, music, [Read More]

(ABERDEEN, Miss.) – A stunning 5-piece rosewood Victorian bedroom suite, signed Mitchell & Rammelsberg (circa 1860), soared to $51,700 at the living estate sale of Katherine Creamer, a discerning collector from Mobile, Ala., whose stately mansion was built to contain her vast collections. The sale was held June 13 by Stevens Auction [Read More]

Project Art Minerva, organised by respected artists Magdalena Rutkowska and Blandine Martin will run an exhibition of contemporary artwork by Abruzzo & international artists, many of whom are well-established including the award winning photographer Christofer Dierdoff and the renowned artists in the world of fashion, Duilio Pilloni and Karin Askham. There will [Read More]

Sotheby’s Wine department has finished the first half of 2009 with exceptional results from every sale held in its salerooms in the major markets of New York, London, and Hong Kong – where the company’s debut sale in Asia was held in April. Every one of the nine sales held during the [Read More]

Bonhams sale of Prints on July 14 in New Bond Street highlights a single owner collection of 12 ceramic plates and jugs by Picasso in muted colours ranging in price from £1,000 to £6,000. Alongside Picasso’s ceramics there are also 11 pictures by the artist which range in price from £500 to [Read More]

Heritage Auction Galleries, the world’s leading numismatic auctioneer, has created a new online auction venue for World Coin buyers with its new Monthly Internet-only World Coin Auctions. The first installment of this new venture is currently online at www.HA.com/WorldCoins, closing on July 12. The next auction will start the same day, July [Read More]

Bloomsbury’s summer sale of Books, Manuscripts, Prints & Original Artwork on 9th July, caters for all interests and all pockets. Amongst the English manuscripts are fascinating letters as well travelogues; lot 59 for example is a charming manuscript of 1849 with ‘naive’ pen and ink sketches of a husband and wife’s journey [Read More]

Bonhams are delighted to announce the sale of a private collection of furniture by one of the UK’s leading design talents, Tom Dixon. The collection includes some of Dixon’s most iconic works as well as a series of fixtures and fittings privately commissioned for a London house. The collection will be offered [Read More]

The new Ketterer Kunst headquarters next to Messe Munich are certainly impressive. The House for Art deploys 3500 m2 of surface area, which includes a spacious auction room, light-filled exhibition rooms and a library with some 1000 m of shelf space. A highlight is what is probably the world’s largest art show [Read More]

Sotheby’s london Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the strong total of £25,549,540 ($41,911,318/€29,823,964), near the top pre-sale expectations for the sale (Estimate: £19,755,000-27,435,000). More than 380 clients registered to bid and 37 of the 40 lots offered found buyers, with 92.5% sold by lot – establishing one of the highest sell-through rates [Read More]