A cloth name tag that was a part of the spacesuit worn by Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell while he spent more than nine hours on the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission on Feb. 5-6, 1971, is the unrivaled centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ April 21 Grand Format Space Exploration Auction live in Dallas and […]
Lee Man Fong’s seminal work Bali Life made HK$25,300,000/ US$3,243,590 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Sale, setting the World Record for any Southeast Asian Painting and for the Artist at Auction. The entire Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Spring Sale 2010 totalled HK$69,292,000, comfortably surpassing the pre-sale high estimate […]
Seoul Auction, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong on 4 April 2010, taking a total of HK$42.8 million (US$5.53 million). Untitled, an important mixed media work by Donald Judd (1928-1994) achieved HK$14,812,000 (US$1,913,695). Works by Robert Indiana, Gerhard Richter and Ron Arad sold for strong prices. Two World Auction Records were […]
Phillips de Pury & Company will hold their BRIC auctions at London’s Saatchi Gallery, on 23rd and 24th April. The BRIC auctions will be the very first sales of Contemporary Art from today’s fastest-growing and burgeoning international powerhouses: Brazil, Russia, India and China. The auctions will launch with an evening sale on April 23rd, featuring […]
(WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wisc.) – A huge sale consisting of around 500 lots of classic cars, petroliana items, gas pumps and advertising memorabilia will be sold Saturday, May 1, beginning at 10 a.m. (Central Time), in the Central Motor Sales Building at 943 Alton Street in Wisconsin Rapids. The sale will be conducted by Matthews Auctions, […]
After more than nine decades in the same family, the 9,920-acre Prange Ranch will sell at auction on Wednesday, May 12, with Westchester Auctions and Ranch Marketing Associates managing the grazing land sale. The ranch includes 8,000 acres of deeded pasture and grazing land and 1,920 acres leased from the state. Additionally the Colorado ranch […]
Locati Auctions is proud to offer the public a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy photographs and related material from the estate of Lois C. Jennings. This auction is made up of approximately 100 lots. Mrs. Jennings was the daughter-in-law of the celebrated William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946), an American pioneer in the field of photography. The auction […]
Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its Spring auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on April 20, 2010. The Los Angeles-based sale will feature a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works by established American artists including Joseph Kleitsch, Franz Bischoff, Edgar Payne, Granville Redmond and […]
Phillips de Pury & Company has announced highlights of the forthcoming New York Photographs sale on Friday, April 16, 2010. Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, NJ, 1967, estimated at $70,000-90,000; Robert Frank’s portrait Ben James, Welsh Miner, 1953, estimated at $60,000-80,000; Hiroshi Sugimoto, Chapel of Notre Dame […]
