Monthly Archives: November 2009

On November 19th bidders were met with several good collecting opportunities at Bonhams New York’s European Furniture and Decorative Arts sale. Attracting collectors located in New York, California and several regions of Italy was an important Roman Neoclassical giltwood suite of seating furniture, de-accessioned from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, has signed a seven-year lease in Salt Lake City, Utah and will be starting site work on a new auction site right away. Ritchie Bros. has conducted unreserved equipment auctions at temporary locations in Utah since 1985. “We are excited to [Read More]

The online auction of the former Elk Meadows Ski Resort in Beaver County, Utah, has drawn significant attention from potential investors across the globe, according to the LFC Group of Companies, the online auction marketing company in charge of the sale. After receiving nearly 9,000 visits to the property webpage, LFC has [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Thursday, December 17, 2009 will bring together some 100 works by leading artists of the era and is expected to raise in excess of £4.2 million. Among the categories of works to be offered will be a strong contingent of classical, mythological, genre, [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 3 December 2009 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction includes a number of major paintings and sculptures almost entirely unknown to the market, many of which have been in private [Read More]

“The response to the estate auctions of Brigadier General Robin Olds has been absolutely overwhelming,” said John Conway, VP of Manion’s International Auction House, Inc. of Kansas City. “Fighter pilot Robin Olds was a caliber of man often imitated by Hollywood, but never duplicated in real life; many consider it an honor [Read More]

A one-of-a-kind album of 97 carte de visite photographs featuring 25 rare images of Lincoln’s funeral procession will be offered in Cowan’s December 9, 2009 American History Auction. Never before has such a comprehensive collection of images related to Lincoln’s funeral been offered by Cowan’s, an international leader in auctions of historical [Read More]

Bonhams second sale titled Under A Western Sky: The Art of Newlyn and St Ives has achieved strong results indicating that art from Cornwall is very much in demand. The sale was 78% sold by value with the total price achieved being £627,360. The highlight of the sale was The Jardinière, a [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of fine jewelry at its Boston gallery on Tuesday, December 8th at 10:00 a.m. Highlights include a number of rare and impressive pieces of animal jewelry, brilliant diamonds and colored gemstones, and a stunning selection [Read More]

On December 8 Christie’s celebrates New York’s Historical Design Gallery and surveys the entire modern movement with selected iconic designs spanning the late 19th, 20th and 21st centuries including French ceramics, New York related objects, Scandinavian Design, photographs, American Mid-Century Design and Bauhaus. The auction contains 197 lots, with the majority offered [Read More]

This year’s fall auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on 26 November 2009 with over 180 lots for sale in Modern and Contemporary photography. After the successful spring sale of photographs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, Grisebach now presents an additional Vintage print of the architect’s famous [Read More]

On December 4 and December 9, Christie’s New York will present three sales offering over 550 lots of important and rare books, manuscripts, and maps from distinguished private collections. The first day of sales begins with part II of The William E. Self Library of important English and American Literature and immediately [Read More]

Prominent private and institutional collections are the source for a stellar line-up of works to be offered at Christie’s sale of Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture on December 2, 2009 in New York. Lead highlights of the sale include a significant and deeply personal work by the late Andrew Wyeth that [Read More]

The hat and shoes worn by Michael Jackson at his famous 2001 Madison Square concert will go on sale at Bonhams 16th December auction of Entertainment Memorabilia in Knightsbridge and are estimated to fetch as much as £12,000. The Madison square garden concerts took place over two days and finished the night [Read More]

Christie’s will present two sales of ancient art, Antiquities and Ancient Jewelry in New York, on December 11 featuring over 350 lots showcasing the broad range of works from Predynastic Egypt through to the Roman period. Highlights of the Antiquities sale include a stunning Roman marble torso of Venus, a Roman marble [Read More]

Christie’s New York will offer a highly important George Washington letter to his trusted nephew Bushrod Washington, in the sale of Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana on December 4 (estimate: $1.5-2.5 million). The revealing, four-page letter has never been publicly exhibited and has remained in the possession of English descendants [Read More]

Sotheby’s December 3 sale in Paris reflects a successful encounter between several African art enthusiasts – two collectors, a journalist and a scientist – united by the fate of an exceptional Dogon figure (Plateau of Bandiagara, Mali) that had been split into two for nearly 50 years on either side of the [Read More]

The four-day sale of the Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, part II, at Theatre Marigny in Paris offered by Christie’s in association with Pierre Bergé & Associates auctioneers, realized in total € 8,990,213 / £ 7,978,814 / $ 13,449,358. A remarkable 98% of lots sold, and the sale was [Read More]