Monthly Archives: October 2009

Spectrum Wine Auctions, the world’s newest live and online auction house of fine collectible wine, announced today that it will simulcast its premiere live auction LIVE via satellite at Crown Wine Cellars in Hong Kong at 9:00AM local Hong Kong time on 22 November, 2009. Crown Wine Cellars is located at 18 [Read More]

Southways, the 13-acre, former Pillsbury estate located in an exclusive suburb outside of Minneapolis, is being offered for sale in a sealed bid auction. The historic, 40,000-sq.-ft. mansion, which includes the elegant main residence, detached garage, pool and tennis complex, smoking house, tea house, caretaker’s cottage/greenhouse and caretaker’s maintenance shop, is available [Read More]

Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., the leading hybrid model salvage auto auction company, today announced their new location in Moss Point, Mississippi. This new facility will provide salvage remarketing services, storage and sale capacity to both buying and selling customers. This marks the twenty-third location in IAA’s South Central region in an effort [Read More]

United County Ohio Realty & Auction Group is selling at auction a former Howard Johnson hotel located off of I-280 and I-80/I-90. The property has excellent highway visibility. “The sale is free and clear of liens since it is being sold subject to court order,” comments Richard Kruse, the court-appointed receiver. “From [Read More]

International fine arts auctioneers, Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to announce the November 15-16, 2009 Sunset Estate Auction in Los Angeles. The thematic monthly sale will highlight ‘Grand Salon’ style and feature works from the 16th century, Spanish Baroque, Georgian and Louis XIV to 20th century modern periods as well as items [Read More]

Sotheby’s fall auction of Russian Art in New York, comprising fine and applied works of art, will be held on Monday November 2, 2009. The sale is largely drawn from esteemed private collections and estates, offering collectors works that are extremely fresh to the market. Among the highlights is a selection of [Read More]

Christie’s auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai realised $6,736,475 / AED 24,722,863 / €4,526,911, and was 72% sold by lot and 74% sold by value. The top lot of the sale was “Remembrance and Gratitude”, a large and spectacular diptych by Ahmed Moustafa (b.1943), which sold for $662,500 / [Read More]

Active bidding online, global participation, strong demand. (Chicago, IL) – Bidding at Hart Davis Hart remained strong this weekend as an auction of fine & rare wines brought $3,605,398 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,181,630 – $3,259,730. A selection of rare Bordeaux from the cellar of Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux [Read More]

On December 5, 2009 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., The Heckscher Museum of Art will offer guests attending its annual benefit and live art auction being held in the Museum the opportunity to purchase works of art by many prominent artists, among them Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Tobey and April Gornik who [Read More]

On November 17 and 18, Christie’s will offer an exceptional selection of works by leading artists representing 15 countries in its Latin American Sale. Rich in offerings from private collections, the two-day auction offers works by leading Latin American artists such as Fernando Botero, Claudio Bravo, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Matta, and [Read More]

An extremely rare Jacobean manuscript, a hitherto unknown play by Lord Edward Herbert, a close friend of John Donne, has been found in a folder marked ‘Old Poems’ and buried in a trunk that had been stored in an attic in Powis Castle. Writing in the latest edition of Bonhams Magazine, Felix [Read More]

Last spring, the LFC Group of Companies, the industry leaders in online auction marketing of commercial and residential real estate, made headlines across the commercial real estate community by successfully orchestrating the U.S. Bankruptcy Court-ordered sale of 120 acres of vacant land in Hallie, Wisconsin. Partnering with the local commercial real estate [Read More]

(ORLANDO, Fla.) – More than 300 original and reproduction works of art by some of the greatest names in 20th century fine art – Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Pierre Bonnard and others – will be sold alongside contemporary names like Peter Max, LeRoy Neiman, Nicola Simbari and Gary Benfield at [Read More]

RM Auctions, is delighted to announce the addition of an evening auction to its highly anticipated 2010 Automobiles of Arizona event. Returning to the prestigious Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix, the additional sale date will see RM kick off its 2010 auction calendar in grand style on the evening of [Read More]

A secluded retreat of approximately 304 acres, including Murray Knob in Franklin and Roanoke counties, will sell at absolute auction Thursday, Nov. 19, with Woltz & Associates managing the sale. The land, some of which is at an elevation of 2,286 feet, straddles Roanoke and Franklin counties on Easter Mountain, 10 miles [Read More]

Bronze animalier sculptures from the collection of the city’s premier business and social club highlight Nov. 9 Decorative Arts event at Heritage Auctions Membership to The Tower Club of Dallas may be by invitation only, but the chance to own a piece of animalier sculpture from the club’s collection may be much [Read More]

Excitement surrounds the discovery and sale of a tiny iron casket that sold for a jaw dropping £10K at a local auction. The 8cm wide iron casket was discovered by Chief Valuer Adrian Rathbone of Richard Winterton Auctioneers in Lichfield in a box of junk. The box of ‘junk’ had been consigned [Read More]

Sotheby’s fall Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 11 November 2009 comprises an extraordinary offering of paintings and sculptures anchored by classic works by key artists from the 1960s. The sale will begin with 20 works from the collection of Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Myers, noted American collectors and arts [Read More]