Yearly Archives: 2009

Christie’s has announced a rediscovered painting by Mario Carreño, entitled Fuego en el batey (Fire in the farm) from 1943, will lead the Latin American Sale on May 28. Widely regarded as a lost masterpiece of Cuban modernism, the painting has been in the Collection of Milton and Nona Ward in Baldwin, [Read More]

Following the record-breaking January sale of American Renaissance furniture commissioned for the Milton Slocum Latham residence, Thurlow Lodge, and executed by Herter Brothers, Bonhams New York is set to auction the final historic pieces from the Warner Bros. Studios Collection on May 5th. The collection was originally purchased by Warner Bros. in [Read More]

Bonhams is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Jeffrey Olson as Director of the Japanese Works of Art Department for their New York galleries. Olson began amassing his knowledge of Japanese art at Columbia University (New York). During this time he spent one year at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host an auction of Fine Musical Instruments on Sunday, May 3rd in its Boston gallery at noon. More than 400 lots will be offered. Featured is a stunning example of the world’s most [Read More]

Auction Will Feature an Exceptional 1925 Poland Second Republic 5 Zlotych, Ex. Farouk Collection, Plus Two Outstanding International Banknote Collections IRVINE, Calif. – Ponterio & Associates, Inc., a division of Bowers and Merena Auctions, returns to Chicago to present the Official Auction of the Chicago International Coin Fair (C.I.C.F.), April 23-25, 2009, [Read More]

eBay to Make Cash Tender Offer of $24 per Share for All Outstanding Gmarket Shares; Move Significantly Strengthens eBay’s Leadership in World’s 6th Largest E-Commerce Market eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Gmarket Inc. (NASDAQ: GMKT) today jointly announced a definitive agreement for eBay to combine Gmarket, Korea’s leading e-commerce business, with eBay’s [Read More]

Looking for a truck, laptop, tractor or road sweeper? How about a snow plow? Those are a few of the items that are being sold by the State of Iowa in an Internet-only auction between now and April 28. “This is one of the most eclectic sales I’ve ever seen for any [Read More]

19 April 2009 at 11am The sale of the items is under instructions from the Receivers and Managers of Filmtype Pty Ltd, operated by Ronald Coles.* The consignment includes frames, reference books and items of furniture and will be sold as part or our monthly Bay East Antiques & Interiors auction which [Read More]

Sotheby’s London will be offering a number of extraordinary objects with Russian Imperial provenance in its spring and summer 2009 Russian Art sales. An Imperial Russian silver tea service by Nichols and Plinke, St. Petersburg, 1879 from the Collection of Anastasia Mikhailovna – grand-daughter of Emperor Nicholas I – is one of [Read More]

(WEST SWANZEY, N.H.) – Part II of the living estate of Dolores Wettach Williams – the former high-fashion model, actress and third wife of Hall of Fame baseball legend Ted Williams – will be sold at auction on Saturday, May 30, by Knotty Pine Auction Service, beginning at 11 a.m. The sale [Read More]

Foreseeing the most action the real estate auction market has seen in decades, a new auctions firm today announces its entry into the market: Global Real Estate Auctions, Inc. will hold its inaugural auction in June. The firm is being launched by John DeMato, a former vice president and principal Indiana broker [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced record-breaking results for the month of March and the first quarter of 2009. The Company experienced a 50% increase in the number of auctions hosted in March 2008, a 44% increase in the number of bidders participating over the number [Read More]

The Dallas Ad League (DAL) will host the greater Dallas area’s first two-day, online media auction on April 27-28, 2009, allowing access to more than $1.4 million in paid media for just pennies on the dollar. Proceeds from the DAL Spring Media Auction will benefit two charities: The DREAM Fund and the [Read More]

The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company recorded more than $20 million in total sales and delivered its trademark excitement during the 7th Annual Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Collector Car Auction April 9-11, 2009. The all No Reserve auction featured an eclectic docket, including the “Project American Heroes” 1969 Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS custom that fetched $500,000 [Read More]

Sotheby’s has announced that its annual sale of Scandinavian Art in London on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 will be led by five important works by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). The group of three intimate portrait works and two landscapes includes three paintings that featured in the well-received and critically acclaimed [Read More]

(TERRYVILLE, Conn.) – Quite possibly the most important collection of rare, early American Terry clocks ever to cross the block will be auctioned on Saturday, May 2, by Tim’s, Inc., of Bristol, Conn. The sale will be held on-site, at the home of Richard T. Baldwin, a direct descendant of Eli Terry, [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions announces The Paula Peyraud Collection, Samuel Johnson and Women Writers in Georgian Society with over 480 lots of books, manuscripts and paintings tells the fascinating story of English society in the middle and late Georgian periods. This extraordinary sale focuses on the artistic and literary women who came to the [Read More]

Bonhams and Goodman next Bay East Antiques & Interiors auction on 19 April 2009 at 11am sees a return to the regular monthly format featuring the broadest possible range of furniture and decorative arts, entirely from private collections. Highlights include a good selection of Baccarat and Lalique glass, Dutch and English silver, [Read More]