Yearly Archives: 2009

Christie’s is pleased to announce the Prints and Multiples sale on October 27th and 28th. The two day sale is comprised of over 440 works with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $450,000. Of the thirty Andy Warhol lots included in the sale, the highlight is “Flowers,” the complete set of ten screenprints [Read More]

Sotheby’s Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art, Including Arab and Iranian Art, brought a combined total of £20,157,550/$32,799,234 (Est. £15.6-21.6 million) and saw a total of seven new artist records established. Commenting on the strong 20th Century Italian Art Sale results, Claudia Dwek, Co Chairman Sotheby’s Italy, said: “We [Read More]

Fine arts auctioneer Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to offer Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on October 19, 2009. Included within the 525-lot sale is an amazing selection of surfing history and artifacts? from the Collection of Mark Blackburn, Honolulu, Hawaii. The collection covers the history of surfing from the wave-riding of [Read More]

A rare, one-of-a-kind 1934 movie poster for the Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi horror film, The Black Cat, is expected to set a world record price for any type of poster in the Nov. 12 – 13, 2009 Signature Vintage Movie Posters Auction at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, and online. Never before [Read More]

Bidswamp.com, an Ad Space Auction website which launched today, allows publishers and advertisers to deal directly with one another. Advertisers and marketers are free to roam around and scope out what’s on offer by watching auctions. They can bid for Ad Space, buy out or make offers to willing sellers. Being able [Read More]

Preeminent international auction house, RM Auctions, has continued its strong 2009 sales run, posting in excess of $9.1 million in sales with an impressive 94% of motor cars sold at the Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey event in Pennsylvania this week. Held in conjunction with the famed AACA Eastern Division Fall Meet, [Read More]

SongVest, the company that reinvented music memorabilia by auctioning song rights directly to fans, has announced the first-ever online auction of book rights by offering access to the royalty stream of the forthcoming re-issue ‘An Education in Rebellion: The Biography of Nikki Sixx.’ The auction will take place exclusively at songvest.com from [Read More]

Bonhams sixth sale of South African Art in London on 14 October made a total of £2.5m (R29m) in a buoyant auction which saw new world record prices achieved for six artists. But as usual it was works by Pierneef, Stern, Laubser and Sekoto which dominated, with one or two lesser known [Read More]

Maas Companies of Rochester, MN will auction the Altra Nebraska, LLC 110 MGY partially-completed ethanol plant on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10 a.m. onsite at 2182 Road 5600, Carleton, Nebraska. The plant was available for an entirety purchase through Tuesday, October 13, 2009. No party completed the entirety purchase protocol; therefore [Read More]

Christie’s announced Le Quai Malaquais et l’Institut, 1903 by Camille Pissarro (estimate: $1.5-2.5 million), an important work that has been restituted to a member of the Fischer estate after its confiscation over 70 years ago, will be offered for sale this November. Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Le Quai Malaquais et l’Institut, signed and [Read More]

A number of rare pieces and notable collections mark Bonhams’ upcoming 20th Century auction. Taking place on December 9th the sale will offer a diverse and meticulously chosen selection of furniture and decorative arts representing all styles of 20th Century design. Cause for excitement is the offer of the renowned Matt Wyse [Read More]

Kentucky operators of industrial and manufacturing facilities are encouraged to participate in one of the region’s largest auctions of industrial/manufacturing equipment and office furniture, scheduled for October 17 in Louisville. More than 150 individual pieces of equipment – including punch presses, plate roll, press brakes, manual brakes, drill presses, fork lifts, welders, [Read More]

For the first time ever in London, a major work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Brother Sausage” (estimate: $9-12 million) and two seminal works from Andy Warhol’s pivotal Death and Disaster series, “Most Wanted Men #3, Ellis Ruiz B.” (estimate: $5.5-6.5 million) and “Tunafish Disaster” (estimate: $6-8 million), will be exhibited to the public. [Read More]

Collectors with a fondness for the stylish, fun and whimsical Bakelite jewelry of the 1930s are eagerly awaiting Bonhams New York’s December 16th sale of the Susan Kelner Freeman collection of the Bakelite jewelry. Discovered in the early 1900s, bakelite was the first completely synthetic plastic thatcould be produced in almost any [Read More]

(NORTHPORT, Ala.) – An extremely rare 1940 Gabel Kuro jukebox – nicknamed “the last jukebox” and one of only six known – sold for $120,750 at the sale of the world-famous jukebox and advertising collection of the late John Gurrech of Houston, Tex., held Oct. 3 by Hal Hunt Auctions. It was [Read More]

Spectrum Wine Auctions, the world’s newest live and online auction house of fine collectible wine, announced today that its premiere live auction scheduled for 5:00PM PST November 21, 2009, will be anchored by a selection of wines from “The Aubrey McClendon Collection.” The auction will be held at The St. Regis Monarch [Read More]

Despite the current gloomy economic situation, the 2nd Annual Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) (www.accg.us) Benefit Auction managed to raise more than $32,000 this year. The entire proceeds of this sale will support ACCG operations, primarily the guild’s legal fund. The ACCG is presently engaged in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [Read More]

(ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – The contents of the antique shop and items from the personal collection of Brad and Eunice Witt, formerly of Missouri, will be sold without reserve on Saturday, Nov. 14, in the grand ballroom (upper level) of the St. Charles Convention Center, located at exit 229 of I-70. The [Read More]