Kendall-Jackson Winery today announced a five-month-long charity auction that will take place on its web site (www.kj.com) and will feature items, donated by winery owner and co-founder Jess Jackson, that are related to Rachel Alexandra’s already-historic thoroughbred racing season. A new item and new auction will be introduced every month through November. [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2009
1591 posts
GAVIN GARDINER is delighted to announce that he will be selling a gun that belonged to Lord Ripon – the greatest shot of the Edwardian era – in his annual auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns at the world-famous Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland on Monday, August 24, 2009. The [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its summer auction of California and American Painting and Sculpture on August 3, 2009. The Los Angeles-based sale will feature a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works by established American artists including Franz Bischoff, Maynard Dixon, John Marshall [Read More]
A veritable Who’s Who of Texas art, past and present, will impart spirit, artistic grace and Lone Star State pride at an auction of Texas Art at Heritage Auction Galleries on July 16, at the company’s Slocum Street Annex in Dallas’s Downtown Design District. A stunning piece of Texas modernism leads the [Read More]
The 8th Annual Big Bad Ball Accepting Donations for Silent Auction, Auction Proceeds and Raffle Ticket Sales to Benefit Hospice of Wake County April Mills, event co-chair for the 8th Annual Big Bad Ball (www.bigbadball.com), announced today that donations are being accepted for the event’s silent auction and raffle ticket sales have [Read More]
Over € 7.9 million*, thus the very good results from the Spring Auctions at Ketterer Kunst in Munich and Hamburg. “Even though it isn’t easy currently to get hold of good works, we succeeded in collecting an offering that met with an enthusiastic response and ensured outstanding sales proceeds. You could have [Read More]
Bonhams raised a total of £2.45 million at their annual sale held at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. With the reassuring roar of cars on the famous course in the background, the saleroom was packed with spirited bidders keen to take advantage of some of the outstanding lots on offer with a [Read More]
More than 2,400 people from 33 countries registered to bid in the unreserved public auction conducted by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in North East, Maryland on June 24 & 25, 2009. Ritchie Bros. (www.rbauction.com), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, sold more than 3,200 heavy equipment items and trucks over two days, generating gross [Read More]
Sheldon F. Good, founding chairman and CEO of Chicago-based Sheldon Good & Company, the international real estate auction and brokerage firm which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection April 24, is no longer associated with the company he founded 44 years ago. The industry icon may instead form his own company and [Read More]
The French Boatyard of Henri Amel has been building high quality cruising sailboats for more than 30 years. The Super Maramu 2000 is one of their popular blue water glass reinforced plastic cruising ketches and its features include: Cruising speed of 8 knots under motor or 10/12 knots under sail Winged shaped [Read More]
Shannons has ‘muscled-in’ on Australia’s largest and most prestigious motoring enthusiast event, putting a gym-load of iconic 60’s and 70’s American and Australian performance cars under the hammer at Meguiar’s MotorEx on Sunday July 12. With the Sydney Motor Show taking a sabbatical this year, Shannons is making MotorEx its major New [Read More]
Not Fade Away Gallery and Allan Tannenbaum, Famed SoHo Weekly News Photographer, announced today that the Gallery is holding a silent auction of over 70 rare Artist’s Proofs and Limited Edition photographs from the Allan Tannenbaum exhibition NEW YORK IN THE 70s, and Not Fade Away Gallery’s inaugural exhibition THE BRITISH ARE [Read More]
During a recent auction at Stair Galleries Auction House in Hudson, New York, well-known American artist Donray sold a painting entitled Butterfly #20 for a price exceeding the artist’s existing record. The painting, measuring 15.5 inches by 19 inches, was one of three top sellers among the 240 lots of fine art [Read More]
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised £19,063,350 / $31,778,604 / €22,513,816 selling 88% by lot and 86% by value. Francis Outred, International Director and Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s Europe: ‘We are delighted with the results of our sales tonight which continued the trend of strong sold rates [Read More]
Washington, DC-based Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers is to present at auction on July 26th the entire estate of Jeane Dixon (1904-1997), one of the pre-eminent astrologers and psychics of the 20th century best known for predicting John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The July 26th auction includes: *Mrs. Dixon’s crystal ball and [Read More]
Bonhams is delighted to have been instructed to handle the dispersal sale of reserve vehicles from The Ward Brothers’ Collection – one of Europe’s foremost groups of early automobiles – at 2pm on Saturday 18th July at Henley-on-Thames. The brothers, Toby and Daniel, have a motoring heritage and both have gone on [Read More]
Bonhams next sale of Old Master paintings on July 8th in New Bond Street, offers stunning views of some of the highlights of The Grand Tour by some of the masters of the time. Today, when the capturing of images by cameras, phone, video and film have become commonplace we forget the [Read More]
Legends of TV and film will surrender the Hollywood spotlight for a night when a different kind of American star takes to the podium at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Beverly Hills: A historic 1854-S quarter eagle, graded VF35 NGC, will lead the Platinum Night offerings of Heritage Auction Galleries’ August [Read More]