Monthly Archives: November 2009

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – – Nearly 750 lots – most of them quality, fresh to the market items from prominent local estates – will be sold at a Fine & Decorative Arts Cataloged Auction scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m., by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The auction will [Read More]

If you have ever said the phrase ‘as poor as a church mouse’, then you would have something in common with one of our greatest furniture craftsmen Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson (1876-1955). Thompson was a British furniture maker working in English oak. Based in Kilburn North Yorkshire, he is credited as an important [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of 19th-Century, Modern and Contemporary art, to be held in Amsterdam on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, will have at its core a group of works from a celebrated Dutch private collection. Put together over some 30 years with enormous commitment and discernment, this exceptional collection includes works by leading Dutch [Read More]

Last night at Sotheby’s in New York, Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece, 200 One Dollar Bills, brought a remarkable $43,762,500, soaring past the pre-sale estimate of $8/12 million. Competition was fierce. Auctioneer Tobias Meyer opened the bidding at $6 million and was immediately met with an almost unheard of response – a bid [Read More]

A RARE and almost unique 4-barrelled sporting gun by Charles Lancaster is expected to sell for £18,000-24,000 in Gavin Gardiner’s auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 in the Upper Grosvenor Galleries at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA. The sale will start at [Read More]

Ian Fleming’s revised typescript of Diamonds are Forever and a complete set of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack from the years 1864 to 1984 left bidders both shaken and stirred as they made astonishing prices at Bonhams Books and Manuscripts Sale, November 10, in London. The Fleming typescript was estimated to sell for [Read More]

Special Olympics Northern California will hold its 8th annual fundraising gala on Nov.13, 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco. Presented by Chevron Corp., the Spirit of the Season gala will help raise money for sports equipment, training and competition in 2010. More than 13,000 developmentally disabled children and adults [Read More]

California’s oldest and largest auctioneer, Bonhams & Butterfields, will offer contemporary art from the Golden State during the firm’s Made in California sale on November 17, 2009. Though regional in theme, artwork by internationally known artists such as John Altoon, Robert Arneson, Ruth Asawa, Claire Falkenstein, Sam Francis, Robert Graham, George Rodrigue, [Read More]

I.M. Chait is to offer more than 400 lots of exceptional Chinese and Japanese art on November 15. The collections are directed at both mid-level collectors and high-level connoisseurs seeking good and realistically priced investments. I.M. Chait’s sale leads with an extensive collection of Han and Tang Dynasty ritual pottery figures, now [Read More]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam will, going forward, hold two sales of Old Master Paintings every year (one in May and the second in December) and the first of these new-format sales will be held on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 2p.m. This sale will comprise some 69 lots – many with exemplary provenance having [Read More]

Audrey Hepburn was not just a film star – she was a major style icon of the 20th Century. Simplicity and seemingly effortless elegance was her trademark. Ably aided and abetted by the young couturier Hubert de Givenchy, she became the personification of chic elegance in the 1950s and 60s. Givenchy said [Read More]

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale totaled $74,151,500/£44,669,578/€49,766,107. Works by artists Peter Doig, Jeff Koons, and Joan Mitchell commanded the top prices. In addition, new world record prices were set for works on paper by Philip Guston, and Brice Marden and a drawing by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Marc Porter, President of Christie’s [Read More]

Kick-start the holiday season with the makers of Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream by celebrating the two things women find most irresistible about a holiday get-together — amazing party shoes and a delicious drink. The Baileys Holiday Shoe Collection of one-of-a-kind Baileys-inspired designs will be sold via online auction to benefit Clothes Off [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its fall auction of Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art on November 17, 2009 in Los Angeles. Simulcast to the firm’s San Francisco gallery, the over 200-lot sale should attract strong collector interest for its high quality and reasonably priced works by well-known artists. Highlights from the [Read More]

New York / Berlin, November 10, 2009 – From November 10-19 artnet Auctions is featuring Faces & Figures, a special sale of 375 photographs by 185 renowned modern & contemporary artists. The works offered in the sale celebrate the human form as seen through the lens of some of the greatest photographers [Read More]

There is no stamp – perhaps no collectible in general – more famous than the legendary #C3a, or the “Inverted Jenny,” as it’s more commonly known. And there is, perhaps, no “Jenny” more famous than the one that Colonel E.H.R. “Ned” Green placed in a locket for his beloved wife, Mabel, in [Read More]

An extensive single-owner collection of over 800 lots and 3,000 individual items, amassed during the height of the Northern Ireland conflict, will go up for sale at a two-day no-reserve auction at Bonhams Edinburgh on 11th and 12th November. One of the notable highlights of the sale is Summer Breeze, a pen [Read More]

On Monday, November 16th at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction, will open its Seventh Fine Art Auction to live, telephone and left bids; as well as online Internet bidding. Clarke, known for discovering the exceptional, is again offering works by artists rarely if ever seen at auction. African-American Fine Art, a Clarke strength, [Read More]