With a laudable 82 percent sell-through rate by lot, or nearly ninety percent sold by value, Freeman’s June 21st sale of ‘Fine American & European Paintings and Sculpture’ proved to be a great success, with 102 of the 127 lots on offer finding buyers and the sale totaling $1,182,000 hammer with premium. [Read More]
Daily Archives: July 10, 2009
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The remaining classic trucks and equipment of the long standing Archie Crippen Excavating Company in Fresno, CA will be auctioned off to the public next Tuesday, July 14th.. It is widely known that Archie had a lifelong love affair with restoring old trucks and cars, as is evidenced by the large quantity [Read More]
Art Source for Design is proud to announce the date of a fundraising art auction to benefit LifeUnfolded, a local non profit organization dedicated to to providing an artistic outlet for foster children to enable them to discover their talents and use those talents to succeed in life. The event will be [Read More]
A piece of history – a community’s and a family’s history – will be sold to the highest bidders on July 11. Located in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Hills, The Gables Condominiums offer a rare combination of modern luxury living and old world architecture, conveniently located halfway between Boston and New York City. The [Read More]
Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will sell 400 lots fresh from Manhattan, Larchmont, New Rochelle, and Scarsdale estates. Signed Antique and Margolis Furniture Highlights include a signed Lamb of Manchester Aesthetic Movement etagere; a dining suite of highly carved, possibly Horner pieces; American Empire furniture, a selection of Victorian oak tables [Read More]
The sale of Important European Furniture, Sculpture & Clocks realised £7,012,750 and was 79% sold by value and 65% sold by lot. The top lot was a pair of Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry coffres en tombeau (coffers-on-stands), by André-Charles Boulle, circa 1688, which was bought by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and realised [Read More]
A stunning William Dyce painting that has been lost for over a century is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in London next week. The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel is expected to fetch between £100,000 – 150,000 when it is offered for sale in Sotheby’s Victorian and Edwardian Art sale [Read More]
It was a full house with many new faces that filled the Pasadena Convention Center on Tuesday, June 23rd, in anticipation of John Moran’s second California and American Paintings Sale for 2009. The number of new bidders and attendees perhaps reflects the change in investment strategies from Wall Street to tangible property. [Read More]