Daily Archives: June 12, 2009

(ATLANTA, Ga.) – Over 2,500 rare and amazing treasures will cross the block the weekend of June 20-21 when Red Baron — the Southeast’s premier auction house — holds its annual summer auction extravaganza. Items will include a rare collection of three museum-quality heads from different parts of the world; a 1958 [Read More]

Russo and Steele’s much anticipated 9th Annual ‘Sports & Muscle at the Marriott’ auction event has earned a reputation for providing superior customer service and unparalleled quality automobiles. It presents a range of the most luxurious and collectable European sports, American muscle, Hot rods and custom automobiles, but will also provide every [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions’ May Auction, which took place May 30-31, 2009, attracted bidders both locally in Massachusetts and internationally via phone and live online bidding. Day one of this two-day sale featured general fine art, antiques and collectibles, while day two highlighted a diverse selection of maritime antiques and memorabilia. Consignments hailed from [Read More]

Sotheby’s forthcoming sales of Old Master Paintings and Drawings to take place in London on Wednesday, July 8 and Thursday, July 9, 2009 will bring to the market a superb selection of rare works by renowned French, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Italian and British Old Masters as well as a single-owner sale of [Read More]

Yesterday’s sale of Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts in London achieved the highest price at auction for a printed book this year – £623,650/ $1,022,973/ €726,616 – with the sale of the most sought-after of all atlases, a first edition of Claudius Ptolemaeus’s 15th century colour atlas of the world. The [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman announce that an exceptionally rare natural fancy blue and pink diamond ring will be the highlight of the June Fine Jewellery auction in Sydney. Weighing in at 1.24ct, a natural blue diamond of this size and calibre has never before been offered at auction in Australia and only a [Read More]

Bonhams New York is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Deborah Coy as Director European Paintings. Being the only auction house to offer European Paintings specialists in New York, Los Angeles, as well as San Francisco, Coy’s role is dynamic as well as vital to Bonhams’ continued expansion in the US [Read More]

The Louis Picard painting “Ira Aldridge in Taras Shevchenko’s Studio” is bound to cause a sensation. Painted around 1900, the portrait will go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century auction as the spectacular prelude to the four Welcome Auctions to be held on [Read More]