Monthly Archives: June 2009

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]

BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts in its Boston gallery on June 27th at 10 a.m. More than 550 lots of furniture and decorative and utilitarian objects from the Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, [Read More]

Sotheby’s London have auctioned a magnificent pair of Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases for £2,617,250, well in excess of the pre-sale estimate for the pair of £1.2-1.8 million. No less than five bidders – three in the saleroom and two on the telephones – competed for the vases, in Sotheby’s biannual Russian Works [Read More]

“Paperweights of this quality attract high bidding in any economy,” says Larry Selman, president of L. H. Selman Ltd. Bidders from Europe were especially active against U.S. buyers, with very lively internet bidding. Along with those from the U.S., there were bidders from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the [Read More]

Over the course of 30 years, one of the most public and distinguished figures in Indianapolis, the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr. (1918-2008), quietly assembled a truly outstanding private collection of 19th and early 20th-century American painting. This momentous collection will form the centerpiece of Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 10-13, 2009 American [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces its Summer Estates Auction. The two-day auction features antiques, fine art and collectibles from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s second location in California. The auction takes place Saturday and Sunday June 27-28 next to the Windward Grille at 109 [Read More]

Christie’s London, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place 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 auction [Read More]

preliminary drawing from the hand of Alberto Vargas, for what would become the very first Vargas Girl in the December 1940 issue of Esquire Magazine, will be one of the highlights of the July 15 Signature® Illustration Art Auction at Heritage Auction Galleries. This is the first auction to feature major Illustration [Read More]

Halls Auction Company (www.HallsAuctionCompany.com) announces the two-day auction of estate collectibles from the collection of Ruby Gano on June 13 and 14, according to Scott Hall, auctioneer. “Ruby Gano began acquiring pottery and glassware as a department store employee in the 1930’s,” explained Hall. “The store sold a line of Fiesta Ware [Read More]

Sotheby’s London forthcoming sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on the evening of Wednesday, June 24, 2009 will be led by rare works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Pablo Picasso’s Homme à l’épée, a striking and monumental depiction of a musketeer from the artist’s [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday, June 25, 2009 will be spearheaded by three exceptionally rare Andy Warhol paintings from an important European collection – Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Brown (Tuna Fish Disaster), Hammer and Sickle and Diamond Dust Shoes – and features Peter Doig’s painting Almost Grown, which ranks [Read More]

(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]

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]