Yearly Archives: 2009

Sotheby’s has announced that following the enormous popularity and success of its Beyond Limits exhibitions at Chatsworth over the last three years, it will return to Derbyshire this autumn for a fourth installation of modern and contemporary sculpture set against the picturesque gardens of the ancestral home of the Duke and Duchess [Read More]

The Bluette H. Kirchoff Collection and Several Rare Pieces to be Offered in Two-Part September Sale Devotees of fine Asian Art will be offered an exceptional collecting opportunity on September 16th at the New York galleries of international auctioneers, Bonhams. The two-part sale will consist of over 400 lots from the collection [Read More]

Garth’s Auctions of Delaware, Ohio held two strong sales within two weeks during late July and early August. The Saturday, July 25th auction of Fine & Contemporary Art and Decorative Arts featured Garth’s usual offerings of antique furniture, artwork, pottery, glass and sculpture, but it was clear that furniture stole the show. [Read More]

Competitive bidding at Bonhams & Butterfields on August 3, 2009 pushed the price for a 1912 oil on canvas painted by Franz Bischoff to a record high for the artist. The international auctioneers’ sale of California and American Paintings and Sculpture established a new world auction record for Bischoff when the artist’s [Read More]

Bonhams is delighted with the response to its inaugural sale to be held during the “Weekend de L’Excellence Automobile” in Reims between 26-27 September (auction date Saturday 26 September). Racing into pole position is a 1912 5 litre chain drive Bugatti racing car, created and owned by the eponymous Ettore Bugatti who [Read More]

On September 16, Christie’s South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale will feature over 100 works from the leading 20th and 21st century artists from South Asia, including artists from India and Pakistan. The sale will focus on prime examples of many different movements and styles and highlights will include works from [Read More]

Christie’s has announced the forthcoming Swiss Art sale is to be held on 21 September 2009. The auction comprises 153 lots spanning over four centuries of Swiss Art History. The evening sale offers numerous highlights by notable Swiss artists, including, amongst others, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Ferdinand Hodler, Giovanni Giacometti, Félix Vallotton, Hans [Read More]

More than 1,000 antique firearms enthusiasts attended Dan Morphy Auctions’ preview prior to the standing-room-only Aug. 14, 2009 sale of the late John Holman’s collection of 220 antique Kentucky rifles and powder horns. The selection of handmade rifles – many of them crafted by German immigrant gunsmiths of the 18th and 19th [Read More]

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers has announced a once in a lifetime opportunity for Elvis Presley collectors and fans. Over the years many collectors have asked, “Whatever happened to the Gary Pepper collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia?” Early in his career, Presley befriended Gary Pepper, a young man with cerebral palsy, who ultimately became [Read More]

The legendary Phil Hill’s son, Derek, drove the historic 1952 Jaguar C-Type, s/n XKC-007 to an auction world record last night, selling for $2,530,000 at RM’s Sports & Classics of Monterey event in California. XKC-007 was one of the first C-Types delivered to North America. In 1952, a young Phil Hill – [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it has been selected by Classic Motorcar Auction, LLC to provide live online bidding for the 2009 Ohio Summer Classic Car Auction. The two-day live auction event will take place Saturday, August 29 and Sunday, August 30 at 11:00 [Read More]

The championship-winning 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe CSX2601 has made history again, selling for a record-breaking $7.25 million at Mecum’s inaugural Monterey Auction on August 15, 2009. That price tag sets the record for the highest price paid for an American car at public auction. High performance collector car specialists Mecum Auction [Read More]

Martin Lawrence Galleries invites you to join them for the fall 2009 Fine Art Auctions. Now through September take advantage of the opportunity to choose from over 1000 available works by modern masters and contemporary artists such as Warhol, Picasso, Chagall, Haring, Rembrandt, Erte, Kondakova, Deyber, Hallam, and many, many others at [Read More]

Christie’s London will offer the collection of legendary Academy Award winning film producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005) on 7 October 2009 at their South Kensington salerooms. Ismail Merchant had a long and distinguished career working with the film director James Ivory. Their company, Merchant Ivory Productions, won 6 Oscars and 6 BAFTAs, making [Read More]

Christie’s London bi-annual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints in September will feature a fantastic variety of original prints from the Renaissance to the present day including well-known artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, Beckmann, Matisse, Miro, Bacon, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Hockney. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Les Deux Femmes Nues (M. [Read More]

RM Auctions kicked off Monterey’s famed classic car week at the Portola Hotel & Spa tonight with the distinguished Nick Alexander Woodie Collection achieving in excess of $7 million in total sales. The four-hour auction attracted spirited bidding as 51 magnificent pre- and post-war Ford & Mercury wood-bodied station wagons crossed the [Read More]

One of the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered will be offered by international auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields on Saturday, October 3, 2009 during the company’s first Natural History auction to be held at The Venetian® in Las Vegas. The auction will contain approximately 50 lots of fossils with the centerpiece [Read More]

Remodel Auction, Inc. , in a bid of its own to be a leader in online home improvement pricing technology, announced today the launch of its proprietary bidding system for the Weatherization Program in North Carolina. In compliance with state and federal ethics rules North Carolina does not endorse any specific contractor [Read More]