Yearly Archives: 2009

Christie’s October 7 & 8 Photographs sales totaled $7,484,100. Four sales: The American Landscape: Color Photographs from the Bruce and Nancy Berman Collection, Photographs by Sally Mann from a Private Collection, Washington, D.C., The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs showcased the very finest in the medium, from historical 19th century works through to [Read More]

Christie’s announces the second Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes sale on November 17, 2009, presenting collectors and connoisseurs with an incredible opportunity to add to their collections with a wide-range of important, rare, and unique treasures with exceptional provenance. This follows the inaugural sale in June, [Read More]

OC Fair & Event Center, home to the annual OC Fair, along with Barrett-Jackson Auction Company LLC, host of “The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions(TM)” in Scottsdale, Ariz., Palm Beach, Fla., and Las Vegas, announced today they have signed a letter of intent to add a fourth event to the company’s annual [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A 3-volume set of the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers and The Return of the King), with one of the books signed by the author himself, sold for $14,600 at a two-day weekend multi-estate sale held Oct. [Read More]

Heritage Auctions conducted a $932,000 Space Exploration Auction, led by Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ron Evans’ Rolex watch, which realized $131,450, including 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. The handsome, all-original, 1968-era Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master was the personal watch of Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ron Evans. He placed it into his Personal [Read More]

The wise words – ‘Love your people as you would your own children’ – on the seal of a Chinese Emperor who ruled a century ago were not enough to save his reign during the Boxer Rebellion around 1900. The Imperial white jade double-dragon seal is estimated to sell for £100,000 to [Read More]

Imagine having a tax on clocks! This bizarre statement was in fact true back in the late eighteenth century in this country. A British clock tax was introduced in 1797 and it covered all timepieces, including watches and clocks. The annual tax was two shillings and sixpence for a basic watch and [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields held its Fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on September 29, 2009. The 400 lot sale offered a diverse group of high quality pieces spanning a century of design by well-known figures of the period. Featured works included strong examples of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, [Read More]

At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Autumn Sale 2009, an outstanding Imperial carved zitan ‘dragon’ throne of Qianlong period was sold for HK$85,780,000/US$11,068,193 to a bidder in the room, breaking the world auction record for any Chinese furniture. Bidding opened at HK$13 million, quickly reaching HK$20 million, [Read More]

A magnificent Louis XIV cabinet-on-stand attributed to Domenico Cucci (1635-1704) and the Gobelins workshop, circa 1665-1675, is expected to realize in the region of £4 million when it is offered by The March Family at Christie’s sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe on Thursday December 10, 2009. This exceptionally rare work [Read More]

Seoul Auction, Korea’s leading auction house, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong on October 7, 2009, and achieved a total of HK$53.1 million (US$6.9 million). “The Importance of Elsewhere –The Kingdom of Heaven” from the renowned British artist Damien Hirst’s celebrated Butterfly Series achieved HK$17,222,000 (US$2,236,623), establishing a [Read More]

Session II of Wright Collection features Tiffany Lamps, Martin Brothers Pottery, and Art Nouveau Furniture BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host Session II of the Richard Wright Collection on October 24th starting at 11 a.m. in the Boston [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces its October Estates Auction. The auction features antiques, fine art, collectibles from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s second location in California and a large collection of fine antique rugs. The auction takes place Saturday October 24 at 10am under [Read More]

The Litchfield County Auction on iGavel is made up of four distinctive sales. The first is European, Asian & Ethnographic Arts & Antiques. This sale is a group of property from an extensive New York collection that includes ten 17th & 18th century tapestries, Oriental carpets, 18th century furniture and 19th century [Read More]

Bonhams sale of Sporting Memorabilia in Chester on 21 October includes kit from some of the greatest sportsmen of the 20th Century and, most appropriately, an Olympic torch that bore the Olympic flame at the Barcelona Games in 1992 Lot 92 in the sale, the Barcelona Olympic Torch was created by the [Read More]

On Monday, October 12 at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will open its autumn season with its deepest and best catalog of 2009, and of recent years. The sale was created from estates across Greater New York including Yonkers, Bronxville, the Hamptons, Greenwich, Bedford Village, Park Avenue, Riverdale, White [Read More]

Aperture Foundation, a New York-based non-profit arts institution that is a leading force in the field of photography, will hold its 2009 Benefit and Auction on Monday, November 2, at The Lighthouse, Pier 61, Chelsea Piers, New York. This year’s event honors three individuals: Howard Greenberg, one of the world’s top photography [Read More]

Christie’s New York is pleased to announce a dedicated sale of Arts of the Samurai on October 23, which exemplifies the outstanding craftsmanship and visual splendor of the Samurai culture. The collection includes over 80 lots comprising of armor, helmets, and most importantly, swords dating from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. The [Read More]