Monthly Archives: February 2010

Christie’s London announced Architectural Heritage: The Adrian and Suzy Puddy Collection , to be held on Wednesday, 10 March 2010. The sale will include 220 lots of fine antique garden statuary and ornaments, handcarved natural limestone chimneypieces and paneling, with estimates ranging from £500 to £40,000; the collection is expected to realize [Read More]

An incredible archive of Dr Who memorabilia comprising monsters, costumes and props from the BBC is to be sold by Bonhams, Knightsbridge on 24 February 2010 at 2pm, with funds raised from the sale to be used to help finance future series of Dr Who. As the world’s longest running science fiction [Read More]

Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, announces “A Bid to Save the Earth” Green Auction. This first-of-its-kind charity auction will take place on April 22, 2010 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The Evening Sale event will be held at Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, New York and be carried [Read More]

At Sotheby’s, Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for £65,001,250 / $104,327,006 /€74,185,983 becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The sale of that work was swiftly followed by that of Gustav Klimt’s Kirche in Cassone, which made £26,921,250 / $43,208,606/ €30,725,246 – a [Read More]

The South African flag signed by South Africa’s three most recent presidents – Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and F. W. de Klerk – which flew from a helicopter at the historic presidential inauguration on 10th May 1994, will be sold at Bonhams South African Art Sale in London on 24th March. This [Read More]

Great Rock Auctions, a leading premium real estate auction firm, today announced the March 3rd auction of two Beacon Hill new construction luxury properties. “For the first time in Boston real estate history, buyers have the opportunity to bid their price on two spectacular Beacon Hill homes,” said Jeremy Freid, Principal of [Read More]

(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – An exceedingly rare group of three distinguished awards given to World War I German flying ace Adolf Ritter von Tutschek soared to $28,250 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 23-24 by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting and fishing, militaria and collectibles site. The group was the top [Read More]

Attracting both new and seasoned collectors alike, Christie’s First Open sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art will offer a stimulating selection of paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures on March 11. Presenting an exciting mid-season collecting opportunity, First Open showcases works by some of the most desired contemporary artists of our time, including [Read More]

On February 12th, Freeman’s Auctioneers will offer for sale at auction 374 lots of contemporary artworks of the former global financial services firm, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI). The artworks are from the offices of the former global financial services firm and the sale represents the remainder of the Lehman property to [Read More]

Auction will be conducted by Hal Hunt Auctions at the firm’s gallery facility in Northport, Ala. (NORTHPORT, Ala.) – Contents from the historic Annesdale mansion-villa in Memphis, Tenn., plus several other private Southern collections and a marvelous collection of antique guns, will be sold Saturday, March 13, at 10 a.m., by Hal [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Rock Island Auction Company has selected the Company as its exclusive provider of live, online bidding for its upcoming firearms auction. The two-day live auction will take place Saturday, February 27 and Sunday, February 28 at 10:00 a.m. CST [Read More]

On Monday, February 8th at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell 400 lots of its usual mix of the unusual, the exceptional, and the unique. Estate Silver, a Clarke strength, features a heavily chased Ottoman-era lidded urn with a eagle finial poised over a possibly gold serpent. Other silver highlights include a [Read More]

The private papers of leading Marxist art historian, Francis Klingender, are to be sold at Bonhams Printed Books and Maps sale in Oxford on 23 February. An avowed Communist, Klingender was kept under security surveillance from the early 1930s onwards. During the Second World War he was excused military service because of [Read More]

Smart-phone auction bidding no longer confined to the iPhone and Blackberry. LiveAuctioneers.com, the Manhattan-based company that provides real-time Internet bidding capability to more than 900 auction houses worldwide, has released a custom-designed live-bidding app for use with Google’s revolutionary Android open-source mobile platform. The app, which is available free of charge, was [Read More]

Christie’s New York will hold its mid-season sale of 20th Century Decorative Art and Design on March 16, 2010. The 112 lot sale offers a wide range of high quality and affordable objects and furniture by well-known makers from the 20th century, featuring works by Tiffany Studios, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daum, George [Read More]

Cindy Soltis-Stroud, Vice President of Blue Fox Auctions & Consulting, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in auction services. An expert in fundraising, Cindy Soltis-Stroud now lends her talents to Blue Fox Auctions & Consulting, where she is currently thriving in her first year as [Read More]

SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that it raised $275,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (www.StJude.org) at the 39th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona on Friday, January 22. A special charity auction of the Ford Mustang FR500S Challenge Race car donated by SPX culminated in a winning bid [Read More]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the national real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, will conduct an auction of 27 luxury condominiums at Sabine on Fifth, a beautifully designed, in-demand 10-story community set on Waller Creek in the heart of downtown Austin’s entertainment district. This highly anticipated grand reopening [Read More]