An Important Maritime Collection, Including Maritime Paintings and Shipbuilders’ Models auction totaled over $1.385 million at Bonhams New York. A new world auction record for a ship builder’s model was set. The sale consisted of over 100 lots and represented an important vignette into ship design and Maritime history from the mid-19th [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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Christie’s New York spring sale of Fine Musical Instruments on April 28 will present an exciting and extensive range of stringed instruments including a fine selection of bows. Of the 159 lots, the sale will lead with a rare viola by Gasparo Bertolotti da Salò and an exquisite violin by Giovanni Baptista [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will offer, as part of its May 5 and 6 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening and Day sales, Property from the S. Joel Schur Collection, perhaps the finest collection of masterpieces by Rembrandt Bugatti in private hands. Bugatti was a singular figure whose vision was devoted to unique and [Read More]
In a testament to the continued strength of the Jacob & Co. brand and the increasing appeal of its highly-complicated watches, two of the luxury watchmaker’s tourbillon timepieces achieved top ranking sales in the prestigious Antiquorum auction of “Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, Clocks and Horological Tools,” held at the Grand Hotel [Read More]
Moniker® and SnapNames®, both Oversee.net® companies, announced the launch of a pre-auction bidding system for the live premium domain name auction set to occur during the DOMAINfest® One-Day Power Networking Event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on May 13, 2010. Pre-bids can be submitted on any domain listed in the auction until May [Read More]
KAR Auction Services, Inc., a leading provider of vehicle and salvage auction services in North America, today announced a 30 percent increase in online sales volumes for the year ended December 31, 2009 for ADESA, the company’s whole car auction services business, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Additionally, [Read More]
The sale, already online, is being conducted by Litchfield County Auctions of Litchfield, Conn. LITCHFIELD, Conn. – Nearly 950 lots in an impressive array of categories – most of the items coming from prominent estates and collections in Connecticut and New York – will be sold in an Internet and catalog auction [Read More]
Sotheby’s second sale of Contemporary Art: Turkish achieved a total of £2,436,850/ $3,779,067/ 5,577,465 TRY, comfortably within its pre-sale estimate of £1.9-2.9 million. The sale established 16 new artist records for artists including Fahrelnissa Zeid, Taner Ceylan, Haluk Akakçe and Canan Tolon, and was 78.4% sold-by-value. Bidding was international, and buyers came [Read More]
Christie’s New York will bring more than 180 works of art to the saleroom in A Marriage of Collections: The Property of Dr. Julius and Dena K. Tarshis. Focused into four main categories- 19th century European and Russian glass, European porcelain, antique and ancient jewelry and walking sticks- the works on offer [Read More]
New York / Berlin, – artnet Auctions offers continuous online auctions of fine art, prints and photographs. Starting April 15, artnet Auctions will present 275 exquisite photographs by artists from Berenice Abbott to James Van Der Zee in a special sale that ends April 29th. Leading the sale is an extraordinary group [Read More]
After 40 years of operating one of New York City’s finest antique lighting shops, Ned Kell and Buddy McCarthy, the venerable owners of Treasures and Trifles, have retired. On Monday evening, April 26th, Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers will conduct the Treasures and Trifles Auction, featuring the entire contents [Read More]
Bonhams are to sell ten bottles of wine previously owned by the 1930s British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley in the Fine and Rare Wines auction on Thursday 13th May, New Bond Street. Mosley was a British politician primarily known for being the founder of the British Union of Fascists. He was [Read More]
A photographic commission for Vivienne Westwood’s On Liberty collection 1994-5, Donut, Kym, for Vivienne Westwood, 1994, by Dutch duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, which was used in a calendar and advertising campaign, is to be sold for £12,000 – 15,000 in the first auction for Bonhams new photography department on [Read More]
James Bond and film fanatics in general will be keen to know about a forthcoming auction on Tuesday 27th April. The Collectors’ Sale held by Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield will include a replica ‘golden gun’ commemorating the 1974 Roger Moore film ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’. Anyone who has seen [Read More]
Christie’s London celebrates 18th century porcelain with two important sales entitled White Gold. The first collection which will be offered on 12 May coincides with the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Meissen factory and is a fitting celebration of this important cultural and historic event. This single owner collection of [Read More]
Sotheby’s London bi-annual Arts of the Islamic World Sale, which presented for sale works of art that span from the rise of Islam in the 7th century through to the 19th century, today achieved the record total of £15,447,450 ($23,772,081), well in excess of pre-sale expectations (est. £6.3-9.1 million). The well-attended auction, [Read More]
Sotheby’s spring Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on 5 May 2010 presents a superb offering of works by a range of artists including Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Feininger, and Modigliani. Many come from esteemed private collections and estates and are fresh to the market. Prior to the auction, [Read More]
As a highlight of the upcoming Spring auction season, Christie’s New York will present Property from the Collection of Raymond and Miriam Klein, a selection of exceptional fine art from the couple’s spectacular residence in historic Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Works from the collection will be featured in a series of major [Read More]