(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A rare and fine E. Howard & Co. #61 astronomical floor standing regulator clock sold for $161,000 at a sale of vintage clocks and watches held May 30-31 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. It was the third such E. Howard #61 sold within a year by Fontaine’s. The other two [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 9, 2009
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The inaugural sale features The Signature Cellar From a Private European Collector with pre-sale estimates ranging from $75 to $36,000 Bloomsbury Auctions’ inaugural Fine & Rare Wines sale on June 19th at 10:00am includes a spectacular array of wines for both investment and consumption. The Signature Cellar From a Private European Collector [Read More]
Upcoming June 27th Auction Includes an Outstanding Collection from a Prominent Restaurant (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart offered a second installment of French Classics from a Magnificent Cellar this weekend in Chicago, realizing $1,894,350 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,204,010 to $1,805,060. Highlights included a case of 12 bottles of [Read More]
European and American furniture and decorative arts — featuring antiques and collectibles formerly within noted institutional and private collections — come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on Monday, June 15, 2009. Strong international interest is expected for nearly 80-lots of deaccessioned property from several leading California museums, offered [Read More]
An extraordinary cabinet by one of the greatest French furniture makers, Francois Linke will go under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Continental Furniture And Works Of Art Sale on 17th June and is expected to fetch £1M-£1.5M. A version of this armoire by Linke was sold in New York in 2006 for [Read More]
Sotheby’s London biannual Russian Art Evening Auction achieved the solid total of £7,906,050 ($12,546,901), within its pre-sale auction estimate of £6,740,000-9,920,000, and was very well-attended. The sale was 63% sold by lot and 73.3% by value, and saw new auction records established for four Russian artists: Isaak Brodsky, Boris Kustodiev, Konstantin Kryzhitsky [Read More]
The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place at Christie’s on 30 June 2009 and will offer 41 lots including exceptional and significant works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. The first [Read More]