(ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – A firemen’s Hunnemann hand-drawn handtub with pumper, built in 1860 and beautifully restored after a barn fire, sold for $99,000 at a multi-estate sale held Apr. 9-11 by Showtime Auction Services, at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor. Nearly 2,000 lots from several major collections in an array of […]
“About a year ago anxious prospects made for uncertainty, but the art market has not only proven stability in challenging times, it even reached new heights“, said Robert Ketterer, owner of Ketterer Kunst. “Its the quality that counts“, he continues in view of his main auction on 12 June 2010, which has its focal points […]
A superb collection of Japanese tin automotive, very special space toys, pre-war and post-war celluloid, top-shelf battery-ops, and selections from the great toymakers will be featured in the spring sale of Smith House Toy & Auction Company. The phone and online auction, which opens May 27 and closes June 11, will offer seldom seen toys […]
A very rare and unusual screen-print by Ben Nicholson is one of the star lots in Bonhams Prints from the St Ives School sale on 25 May in London. The image, George and Rufus (£2,500 – 3,500), is printed in colour on rayon and was based on a series of paintings that Nicholson produced in […]
(ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – An outstanding marked, 25-inch Handel leaded and reverse painted lamp with an Egyptian design and large 20-inch square shade lit up the room for $16,000 at a sale of the single-owner lifetime collection of Dale Gabel, held Apr. 9-10 at the St. Charles Convention Center. The auction was conducted by Woody […]
Sotheby’s has announced the sale of a group of works whose story must surely rank among the most compelling in art market history. The works, a long-lost treasure trove of paintings, prints, books and drawings by key avant-garde artists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, belonged to Ambroise Vollard, the legendary Parisian art […]
Christie’s has announced The Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth evening sale raised $1,387,000 to benefit four environmental organizations: Conservation International, Oceana, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and The Central Park Conservancy. The live auction celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and has a companion silent auction hosted by Charitybuzz that runs […]
Grand Estates Auction Co., America’s top luxury real estate auction firm with hundreds of successful auctions of one-of-a-kind properties, is selling two distinctive Atlanta-area properties, including a penthouse owned by a former CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, on the same day – Tuesday, May 4. Both will be sold at “absolute” auctions, which require no set […]
In March 2010, an international conference of experts and world leaders called on wealthy countries to invest in technical innovation and green economics. “Green growth is the path to meeting the climate challenge. It can help us to lay the foundation for lasting and widespread economic recovery. It can help us reduce poverty,” United Nations […]
