Yearly Archives: 2009

The inaugural sale features The Signature Cellar From a Private European Collector with pre-sale estimates ranging from $75 to $36,000 Bloomsbury Auctions’ inaugural Fine & Rare Wines sale on June 19th at 10:00am includes a spectacular array of wines for both investment and consumption. The Signature Cellar From a Private European Collector [Read More]

Upcoming June 27th Auction Includes an Outstanding Collection from a Prominent Restaurant (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart offered a second installment of French Classics from a Magnificent Cellar this weekend in Chicago, realizing $1,894,350 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,204,010 to $1,805,060. Highlights included a case of 12 bottles of [Read More]

European and American furniture and decorative arts — featuring antiques and collectibles formerly within noted institutional and private collections — come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on Monday, June 15, 2009. Strong international interest is expected for nearly 80-lots of deaccessioned property from several leading California museums, offered [Read More]

An extraordinary cabinet by one of the greatest French furniture makers, Francois Linke will go under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Continental Furniture And Works Of Art Sale on 17th June and is expected to fetch £1M-£1.5M. A version of this armoire by Linke was sold in New York in 2006 for [Read More]

Sotheby’s London biannual Russian Art Evening Auction achieved the solid total of £7,906,050 ($12,546,901), within its pre-sale auction estimate of £6,740,000-9,920,000, and was very well-attended. The sale was 63% sold by lot and 73.3% by value, and saw new auction records established for four Russian artists: Isaak Brodsky, Boris Kustodiev, Konstantin Kryzhitsky [Read More]

The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place at Christie’s on 30 June 2009 and will offer 41 lots including exceptional and significant works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. The first [Read More]

In Bonhams next sale of Fine Watches on June 10th, one of the greatest watches ever made, a Patek Phillipe watch from Tiffany & Co, one of only four such to appear at auction, will be sold. Lot 146 by Patek Philippe is a very fine and important 18ct gold perpetual calendar [Read More]

Oscar Kokoschka’s magnificent riverscape, `London, Chelsea Reach’, a view from Lindsay House looking towards Battersea was done when the artist was 71 years old in 1957 having fled Prague in 1938 to escape Hitler’s invading army. Bonhams are selling this picture (estimate at £700,000 to £1m) at its Impressionist and Modern Art [Read More]

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Skinner will host its June Discovery auction on Wednesday, June 17th and Thursday June 18th in its Marlborough, Massachusetts gallery at 274 Cedar Hill Street. Session I begins on Wednesday at 2 p.m. with silver, followed by estate jewelry and textiles & couture. Thursday’s session begins at 10 a.m. and [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby’s in London (featuring German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, The Orientalist Sale, Spanish Paintings and The Scandinavian Sale) realised a strong total of £8,382,550 / €9,688,559 against a pre-sale estimate of £6,480,000-9,572,000. The sale was 75% sold-by-lot and 89% sold-by-value. Highlights of the [Read More]

Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will begin the summer by selling more than 400 lots fresh from local estates. Garden Sculpture and Antiques A Westchester estate provides a large collection of marble and cement garden statuary and antiques including a seven-foot high marble statue of Pan, a large marble Discus Thrower [Read More]

Filene’s Basement has announced that an affiliate of Men’s Wearhouse emerged as the winning bidder in a nine-hour bankruptcy auction for assets of the off-price chain that was held in Manhattan on Friday. The affiliate, K&G Acquisition Corp., offered a total of $67.0 million that will cover the purchase of 17 to [Read More]

A photograph of the father of the Brontë sisters, lost to the literary and art world since it was auctioned in 1898, has been discovered at a provincial antiques fair and will be sold by Surrey fine art auctioneer Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers. The sale is on June 24-25. The faded sepia [Read More]

While the finest examples in each category brought predictably high prices, it was the reawakening of the middle range that spurred the most discussion at Dan Morphy Auctions’ $1.3 million Spring Sale. The May 28-30 event showed strength at all levels, said auction company owner Dan Morphy, even in areas that had [Read More]

More than 40 distressed homes in greater Memphis will be sold at auction in two sales slated for June 13 and July 14 by Roebuck Auctions. A handful are in need of repair, but many are in move-in condition or would make excellent real estate investments. The sales will be held at [Read More]

H & H have assembled an interesting selection of quality lots for the June 9-10 sale at the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton. Derbyshire. UK. The full list comprises 94 cars, including 14 from well-known motoring journalist – and old friend of Classic Car Weekly – Malcolm Mackay. Malcolm has owned many of the [Read More]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment company Kennedy Wilson, announces the formation of its Commercial Auction Division. Clifford Smith, senior vice president of Kennedy Wilson’s Commercial Investment Group (KW Investments), has been appointed to lead the commercial auction division, according to Rhett Winchell, president [Read More]

Original 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe to Headline Gooding & Company’s Upcoming Auction Gooding & Company, the official auction house for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, is thrilled to announce the sale of an incomparable piece of Bugatti history – the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe for its annual Pebble Beach auctions, [Read More]