Monthly Archives: February 2010

Quinn’s Auction Galleries will offer two “mystery” paintings in their March 6 sale – one of which may be a genuine Honore Daumier. The other, found in a basement, is a possible 17th-C. Flemish work FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The area around Washington, D.C., has always been a sweet spot for European [Read More]

A superb collection of quality motor cars, spanning every decade, starting with a 1910 Hupmobile Model 20 Tourer (estimate £10,000 – 12,000), and going through to a 2005 Ferrari/Foreman Mk4 V12 Spyder Recreation (estimate £65,000 – 85,000) are being offered at the Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia sale in Oxford on 6th [Read More]

Due to complete plant closure, the machinery and equipment formerly used in the continuing operations of one of the Aleris Aluminum Canada L.P. facilities in Québec will be offered at auction. Hilco Industrial will be organizing the massive 4-day auction sale March 9 through 12, 2010. The huge facility specialized in the [Read More]

“I’d like to invite everyone reading this to attend the CAI Fun Auction,” Tom Perry remarked (SUFFOLK, Va.) – Tom Perry of Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals – one of the premier auction houses in the mid-Atlantic states – has been in the business for years, but he is a firm believer in [Read More]

Christie’s New York will present For the Enjoyment of Scholars: Selections from the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection, a single-owner sale of exceptional Chinese carvings and works of art. Meticulously acquired over the past thirty years, the Blumenfield Collection is one of the most significant collections of Chinese scholar’s objects assembled. This extraordinary [Read More]

Concierge Auctions will host a real estate auction of 7 & 9 White Water Lane at The Strand at Headlands in Dana Point, California, the company announced. Previously offered to $15 million, the properties are selling bidder’s choice* with a reserve of $6.9 million and a pre-sale estimate of $8 million to [Read More]

Gray’s Auctioneers will start it’s 2010 auction season on Saturday, February 27 with one of the auction house’s most anticipated offerings to date. The featured lot is a remarkably rare late 15th/Early 16th Century Franco-Flemish Gothic Biblical Tapestry fragment depicting the life of David the shepherd boy who became the King of [Read More]

(ATLANTA, Ga.) – Gallery 63 on Roswell Road in Atlanta – one of the Southeast’s premier auction houses – will be the focus of a new reality series on The Discovery Channel. The new show will be called Auction King and is set to debut sometime in May. Filming began on Feb. [Read More]

In the 300th anniversary year of the founding of the Meissen factory – Europe’s first porcelain factory – Bonhams is proud to announce the much-anticipated sale of ‘The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part II’ at 10.30am on 26th May 2010 at 101 New Bond Street, London. This follows on from the [Read More]

Freeman’s auctioneers have auctioned the third part of the multi-million dollar art collection of the former global financial services firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI) in Philadelphia for US$600,000. Bringing the total value of the collection to date, including parts one and two, sold at Freeman’s in 2009, to over US$2.2 million. [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields, announce a stellar result for the company’s first auction exclusively dedicated to modern Montblanc writing instruments. The February 15, 2010 sale contained more than 130 lots of exceptional pens with a focus on the Writer’s Editions, Patron of the Arts and 333 series, as well as several of the [Read More]

When you think of legendary sports photos, few tell a story quite as graphically as the 1956 shot of a euphoric Yogi Berra in a leaping bear hug with teammate Don Larsen, who’d just pitched a perfect World Series game. The rarity of such a moment is borne out by the very [Read More]

Christie’s New York will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, on March 4, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $60,000. Highlights include rare and exceptional works by George Benjamin Luks, Charles Sheeler, Robert Vickrey, and Louis Comfort [Read More]

Sotheby’s, one of the world’s leading international auction houses, is to participate at 19th International Arabian Horse Show (February 21 through 23, 2010) bringing to Qatar select highlights from a single–owner collection of 19th and 20th century jewels, together with watches that showcase the exceptional capability of the world’s finest watchmakers, as [Read More]

Accelerated Marketing Partners announced that it will hold a real estate auction for seven exceptional Upper Deer Valley Homes at the intimate and exclusive Lookout at Deer Valley, a 44-acre community of 35 home sites featuring 270-degree panoramic views of the Deer Valley® Resort and Park City ski runs. The event will [Read More]

Two lamps produced and designed collaboratively by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his younger brother Diego, and a table designed by Diego Giacometti, which were owned by the late English actor James Mason (1909-1984) since the late 1960s, are being offered at Bonhams, New Bond Street as part of its Post War [Read More]

Other highlights include naive portraiture, Federal furniture, scrimshaw and folk art BOSTON, Mass. – Feb 19, 2010 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host its semi-annual auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, March 7th. The sale kicks [Read More]

Collectors of fine Japanese furniture and decorative arts are eagerly awaiting the March 25th sale to be mounted at Bonhams, New York. Consisting of over just over 300 lots, the sale is comprised of early 20th-century Decorative Arts, 18th and 19th-century netsuke and inro, and 18th and 19th-century armor. Cause for excitement [Read More]