Auction records for 19th and 20th century photographs were achieved on March 23 at Swann Galleries’ two-part auction of The Stephen L. White Photograph Collection; and Fine Photographs. The White Collection, which was exhibited at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum in 2001, consisted of just over 100 remarkable works depicting aspects of the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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The third Saturday of April marks a special day in the lives of Auctioneers throughout the U.S., National Auctioneers Day. The Michigan State Auctioneers Association (MSAA) will join fellow Auctioneers across the nation to celebrate this annual event, Saturday, April 17th, 2010. One of America’s oldest professions and the last bastion of [Read More]
Cat Auction Services, recognized the world over for its commitment to building customer loyalty, announced recently that it will hold two unreserved public auctions in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.) area on May 5 and 6. These mark the company’s third and fourth Twin Cities-based auctions and come on the heels [Read More]
Fine Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns Auction at Sotheby’’s, New Bond Street, London April 14, 2010 Commenting after the sale, Auctioneer and Expert-in-Charge, Gavin Gardiner, said: “I was delighted with the result of our sale, in the heart of London’s West End. The strength of private bidding is especially pleasing as buyers [Read More]
Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of restaurant equipment and memorabilia from Friday’s Front Row Sports Bar in Orlando, Fla., according to Jerry Jenkins. “This is a huge auction,” Jenkins said. “This is the second largest T.G.I. Fridays in the country, there are over 130 TVs in this auction plus [Read More]
Concierge Auctions (www.conciergeauctions.com), today announced the sale at auction of historic Tulip Hill in Harwood, Maryland on April 10. One of the finest Pre-Revolutionary War estates in the nation, the property sold above its listing price of $2.375 million, announced George Graham, CEO of Concierge Auctions. “We were pleased to conduct the [Read More]
CQout one of the largest UK online auction sites has announced that it has achieved an important milestone with listings of well over half a million books and comics. CQout which recently broke into the US market to offer its services to disenfranchised eBay users has grown to become eBay’s closest rival [Read More]
As the market leader in collectors’ motor cars and having sold some of the world’s most important Bugattis, Bonhams was the obvious choice to be the BOC’s new partner. Last year Bonhams sold a 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, which had been owned by the first BOC Chairman Earl Howe, for a [Read More]
Works by Gertrude Stein, a key figure in 20th century art and literature, is being offered for sale at Bonham Books and Manuscripts sale at Oxford on 27 April. The sale spans Stein’s literary career and includes first editions of her seminal early book of “cubist” poetry Tender Buttons (£200-400) and The [Read More]
Bonhams announce the addition of two fantastic new highlights to its motorcycle auction on 25th April 2010 at The International Classic MotorCycle Show, Stafford. One is the ex-Francis Williams, Basil Keys Norton-JAP 996cc Mk1 ‘Saltdean Special’ Sprinter (estimate £90,000-100,000) and the other a 1938 Brough Superior 982cc SS100 (estimate £110,000-130,000); both are [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong will hold its Spring sale of Fine Chinese Modern Paintings and Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy on May 28th at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, showcasing over 400 rare and exceptional works from the masters, valued in excess of HK$350 million (US$45 million). Xu Beihong is [Read More]
An important portrait by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) and undoubtedly the most important early masterpiece by Louis le Brocquy (b. 1916) will headline Sotheby’s annual Irish Sale in London on Thursday, 6 May 2010. Over 65 works from the sale are to be part of an extensive touring exhibition which starts at [Read More]
Paso Robles Wine Festival, the premier wine tasting event held along California’s Central Coast, incorporates an all new Wine Country Auction & Dinner during the 28th Annual event, May 21 – 23, 2010. The Wine Country Auction & Dinner held Saturday, May 22 in a chic, temperature controlled tent in the Downtown [Read More]
Remarkable selection of vintage toys to be auctioned by Estate Road Show over the weekends of May 8-9 and May 22-23. The 1,200-1,500-lot sale sessions, featuring toys amassed individually over several decades by five brothers, will be live events conducted in Killen, Ala., with Internet bidding through eBay Timed-Live, a service exclusive [Read More]
Fretted, stringed instruments and bows to be offered April 25th in Boston BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of Fine Musical Instruments on April 25th in its Boston gallery. Offered will be nearly 350 lots representing the best in classical and modern instruments including vintage guitars by Gibson and [Read More]
A stunning collection of Safavid textiles, the glory of 17th and 18th Century Isfahan, a city where conspicuous consumption was a social obligation, features in Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art Sale on April 15 in London. A small scrap of silk textile, no bigger than a hand towel, decorated with a series [Read More]
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, is to sell the Owston Collection in Sydney on 25th, 26th and 27th June. The sale will be held at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay overlooking the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Bonhams won the right to sell the collection in its [Read More]
BizAuctions, Inc., a prime provider of commercial eBay and Amazon liquidation services for excess inventories, overstocks and returns, and La Jolla Liquidation & Auction Co. have begun receiving the first tractor-trailer loads of merchandise from the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Delmar Janovec, CEO comments, “Since the announcement of [Read More]