Sotheby’s London has announced as part of its Contemporary Turkish Art sale: Untitled, 1956, a major work by Nejad Melih Devrim, will be offered alongside works by leading Turkish artists. From a private Danish collection, the painting has remained in private hands since it was first exhibited in Copenhagen in 1956 and [Read More]
Daily Archives: April 9, 2010
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A collection of paintings from a deceased estate in Jersey, showing beautiful landscape scenes of Elizabeth Castle, Martello Towers and Mount Orgueil Castle among other Jersey sights, are to feature in the British and Continental Pictures auction on Tuesday 20th April at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. The mainly coastal scenes are highly evocative of [Read More]
Barrett-Jackson Auction Company reported more than $20 million in total sales and produced one of its most dynamic auctions during the 8th Annual Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Collector Car Auction April 1-3, 2010. The all No Reserve auction had bidders vying for more than 400 cars on an exciting docket that included the [Read More]
An oil painting of Penzance by Stanhope Forbes one of Cornwall’s most important artists has auctioned for £170,000. It had a pre auction estimate of £240,000 – £260,000 The picture, “Inner Harbour – Abbey Slip” was painted in 1921. Stanhope Alexander Forbes R.A., (18 November 1857, – 2 March 1947), was an [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Spring Sale 2010, held on the 9th April, featured an Important and Superb Imperially Inscribed ‘Tai Shang Huang Di’ White Jade Seal, Yubi Mark and Period of Qianlong fetched HK$95,860,000 / US$12,289,744, establishing a world record for white jade and Imperial seal [Read More]
On Wednesday, 28 April 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a collection of English furniture which – in its exceptional quality and aesthetic appeal – defines the connoisseurship and unfailing eye of two of the greatest protagonists ever to have worked in the furniture business: Francis Egerton and Peter Maitland. Together, [Read More]
Phillips de Pury sale of the Estate of Mrs. Harry N. Abrams sale offered a unique collection of 20TH Century American and European art with a focus on Post-War and Pop Art from a range of significant artists, attracting over 1000 registered bidders. “There was amazing energy throughout the sale. It demonstrates [Read More]
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art announces an online auction to include ten pieces of Richard Ritter’s glass sculpture featured in the retrospective exhibition, Richard Ritter: 40 Years of Glass. This auction offers an exclusive opportunity to purchase these pieces, some of which have not been offered for sale to the [Read More]
RM Auctions, will offer 43 vehicles from the famed Pate Museum of Transportation ‘without reserve’, June 5th in Cresson, Texas. Regarded as a prime example of ‘one Texan’s devotion to all things mobile’, the Pate Museum was the result of over 40 years of judicious collecting by the late Aggie Pate, former [Read More]
Maitri San Francisco (www.maitrisf.org), the only AIDS-specific residential care facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, has announced its signature gala and auction, BLISS 2010. This year’s event will take place on Sunday, May 2nd from 6-10pm at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s historic Presidio and will be headlined by [Read More]
Leading fleet insurance brokers Staveley Head have welcomed the news that the motor charity BEN plans to launch a new Fleet Disposal Contribution Plan (FDCP). This will see lease and rental agencies working with auction houses, in order to raise money for selected good causes when disposing of vehicles. It is expected [Read More]