As fans around the globe line-up to see This Is It, the posthumous Michael Jackson documentary, the late King of Pop will feature prominently in Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 6-7 20th Century Icons Auction online (www.HA.com/Entertainment) and in-person in Dallas. “We have some fabulous Michael Jackson material,” said Doug Norwine, Director of Music [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, announced the launch of Christie’s Insurance Services, a unique insurance service for the sophisticated collector. Bringing together the very best expertise in art and insurance, Christie’s Insurance Services will partner in the UK with Heath Lambert, Europe’s leading independent art insurance broker and Chubb Insurance, the [Read More]
A collection of important Renaissance medals formed by leading New York dealer-collector Lawrence R. Stack will be sold by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London on December 9 2009. The medals will be sold without reserve and are expected to raise a total of around £2 million. The sale represents the [Read More]
100 Years of Bordeaux, Excellent Burgundies and New World Wines BOSTON, Mass. – Oct. 28, 2009 – Skinner, Inc., one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host its fall auction of Fine Wines on November 4tht at 6 p.m. in its Boston gallery at 63 Park [Read More]
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]