Monthly Archives: November 2009

The only known Style B one-sheet movie poster for the 1934 Universal classic horror movie, The Black Cat, brought $334,600 as part of Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 12-13 Signature Vintage Movie Posters Auction. Total prices realized for the event, including 19.5% buyer’s premium, surpassed the $2 million mark. “The graphically spectacular red, black [Read More]

VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The auction will take place at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at the VSE Warehouse, in Riverside, CA. This is the third auction of [Read More]

Christie’s Latin American Sale totaled $14,691,900, led by an exceptional selection of works by artists representing 15 countries. Six new world auction records were set for Oswaldo Guayasamín, Victor Manuel, José Clemente Orozco, León Ferrari, and Javier Marin, and for a work on paper by Fernando Botero. The sale was 89% sold [Read More]

Reagan-Watson Auctions [www.reagan-watsonauctions.com] announces the auction Saturday, December 5, 2009, of two commercial properties, according to Glenn Watson, Jr., auctioneer. The first property, located at 229 North Main Street in Smyrna, is a new two-story professional office building with 4,500 square feet and an elevator. “This property is ready for interior fit [Read More]

Great American Group (OTCBB: GAMR), a leading provider of asset disposition, valuation and appraisal services, announced the successful disposition at public auction of all construction, transportation, and related equipment assets formerly of U-Brothers Equipment Rentals. Great American Group had been contracted by a secured party to perform a total dispersal of this [Read More]

Bidders paid a total of $2.021 million in an auction held by National Liquidators of three vessels previously owned by Bernard Madoff, a yacht belonging to Frank DiPasquali, Madoff’s former CFO, and a Mercedes Benz convertible formerly owned by Ruth Madoff. The auction was held at National Liquidators’ marina in Fort Lauderdale, [Read More]

The Louis Vuitton auction co-hosted by Sotheby’s London at its New Bond Street premises, sold seven Special Orders, created by masters of savoir-faire, were sold for a total of £495,000. All proceeds from this auction will be donated to the Nigerien Red Cross Fighting Malnutrition Programme. This programme aims to contribute to [Read More]

Sotheby’s February sale of 49 works from the so-called “Zero Art” movement from the private collection of Gerhard and Anna Lenz are expected to fetch more than 12 million pounds ($20.2 million) and will form part of the auctioneer’s London contemporary art sale in 2010. The pieces on offer include works by [Read More]

Christie’s present a superb array of Victorian & British Impressionist Art Including Drawings & Watercolours to the international market on Wednesday 16 December 2009. The sale is led by Eve, a magnificent and monumental painting by Solomon J. Solomon, R.A., P.R.B.A. (1860-1927), which is estimated to realise between £700,000 and £1,000,000. Offered [Read More]

Collectors and enthusiasts will have the opportunity to view an exciting array of vehicles at Bonhams & Goodman’s largest ever mixed vendor auction of Collectors’ Motor Cars, Motorcycles, Motor Boats, Number Plates and Automobilia. Taking place in Sydney on Sunday 6 December, highlights of the auction will include some absolutely outstanding collectors’ [Read More]

The preferred gifts of kings, Meissen porcelain, from many of the noble houses of Europe, will be sold at Bonhams on November 25 2009 when the first part of the Hoffmeister Collection is auctioned. The world-famous Hoffmeister Collection was assembled over the last 40 years by two German brothers who have a [Read More]

Items from Important European Familes to be sold in Arms, Armour and Militaria Auction HIGHLY IMPORTANT pieces from many of the most influential Noble families in European history will be offered by Thomas Del Mar (in association with Sotheby’s) in his auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria in London on Wednesday, [Read More]

On Monday evening, December 7th, Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers will be conducting their December Auction, comprised of Fine American and European Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture and Fine Oriental Rugs and Carpets. The 150 lot auction will begin at 6:00 p.m. and will comprise only a choice array [Read More]

On Monday evening, December 7th, Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers will be conducting their December Auction, comprised of Fine American and European Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture and Fine Oriental Rugs and Carpets. The 150 lot auction will begin at 6:00 p.m. and will comprise only a choice array [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields celebrated the eighth year of its renowned “Classic California” auction at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Saturday the 14th with flying colors. A large crowd of collectors and motoring aficionados paid $2,138,736 for automotive collectibles and celebrity-owned vehicles, cars and motorcycles from noted private collections. With a headlining ensemble [Read More]

The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company is giving faithful fans even more opportunity to follow the excitement of the company’s four annual events with a variety of newly expanded Web site features and social media applications, available at www.barrett-jackson.com. The Web site now logs more than 45 million page views by more than 3.5 [Read More]

Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of furniture, fixtures and equipment from FDIC Receivership for Vineyard Bank in San Diego and Irvine, Calif., according to Jerry Jenkins. Items in this online bank auction include: computers, executive office furniture, IT equipment, copier/printers, office equipment, framed art, storage and shelving, phone systems, [Read More]

Williams & Williams (www.williamsauction.com), the premier brand in real estate auction, on behalf of the City of Pontiac, Michigan, announced today the auction for the Pontiac Silverdome was won by a family-owned real estate company based in Toronto, Canada with a high bid of $583,000. The winning bidder plans to refurbish the [Read More]