In Bonhams next sale of Fine Watches on June 10th, one of the greatest watches ever made, a Patek Phillipe watch from Tiffany & Co, one of only four such to appear at auction, will be sold. Lot 146 by Patek Philippe is a very fine and important 18ct gold perpetual calendar [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 8, 2009
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Oscar Kokoschka’s magnificent riverscape, `London, Chelsea Reach’, a view from Lindsay House looking towards Battersea was done when the artist was 71 years old in 1957 having fled Prague in 1938 to escape Hitler’s invading army. Bonhams are selling this picture (estimate at £700,000 to £1m) at its Impressionist and Modern Art [Read More]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Skinner will host its June Discovery auction on Wednesday, June 17th and Thursday June 18th in its Marlborough, Massachusetts gallery at 274 Cedar Hill Street. Session I begins on Wednesday at 2 p.m. with silver, followed by estate jewelry and textiles & couture. Thursday’s session begins at 10 a.m. and [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby’s in London (featuring German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, The Orientalist Sale, Spanish Paintings and The Scandinavian Sale) realised a strong total of £8,382,550 / €9,688,559 against a pre-sale estimate of £6,480,000-9,572,000. The sale was 75% sold-by-lot and 89% sold-by-value. Highlights of the [Read More]
Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will begin the summer by selling more than 400 lots fresh from local estates. Garden Sculpture and Antiques A Westchester estate provides a large collection of marble and cement garden statuary and antiques including a seven-foot high marble statue of Pan, a large marble Discus Thrower [Read More]
Filene’s Basement has announced that an affiliate of Men’s Wearhouse emerged as the winning bidder in a nine-hour bankruptcy auction for assets of the off-price chain that was held in Manhattan on Friday. The affiliate, K&G Acquisition Corp., offered a total of $67.0 million that will cover the purchase of 17 to [Read More]
A photograph of the father of the Brontë sisters, lost to the literary and art world since it was auctioned in 1898, has been discovered at a provincial antiques fair and will be sold by Surrey fine art auctioneer Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers. The sale is on June 24-25. The faded sepia [Read More]