Chicago-area-based Diliberto Real Estate Services, LLC announces today a Puerto Vallarta, Mexico luxury condominium auction, headlined by two units including one nearly crowning the skyscraping Grand Venetian Bay View Grand, one of the tallest new developments in the hotel district right on a private beach astride the Bahai de Banderas. Originally marketed [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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The 14th Hong Kong sale of Imperial Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on Monday 31 May 2010 illustrates the depth of Christie’s experience and longstanding commitment to this rich and vibrant area of Asian Art. Demand is strong for the finest, rarest and most beautiful works in this category and Christie’s [Read More]
California American Water will host a silent auction to benefit Water for People, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating sustainable drinking water, sanitation and health and hygiene education in third world countries. The silent auction will include an exciting showcase of local Sonoma County and North Bay artists as well as an [Read More]
West Coast Bank is the presenting sponsor of the Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp Annual Dinner & Auction–Passport Around the World– for the fourth consecutive year. The event will be held at the Airport Embassy Suites, April 24th at 5pm. West Coast Bank Tigard Branch Manager Pam Brown is also the vice president [Read More]
Cowan’s March 26, 2010 American Indian and Western Auction had total proceeds reach over $762,000. The catalogued portion of the auction offered 507 lots, and an online-only second session that immediately followed featured an additional 309 lots. The highest-selling lot of the auction was a circa 1900 Yavapai Apache Olla with figural [Read More]
Heritage Auction Galleries has announced that Carolyn Mani has joined the company in its Beverly Hills location as Consignment Director. Mani joins Heritage, the world’s largest auctioneer of coins, fine collectibles, jewelry and Art from the Sunset Estate Department of Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers in Los Angeles, where she was Director, Specialist [Read More]
Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions are holding a 97 lot, cutting-edge Urban Art sale (pdf catalogue) on Wednesday 21st April at 24 Maddox Street, London W1. A signed pencil sketch of a Shark bearing its teeth, a skull, a butterfly and a heart by the world renowned Damien Hirst, inscribed ‘for LJ Don’t [Read More]
Spectrum Group International, Inc. announced that it has appointed Paul Soth as its Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, effective immediately. Mr. Soth, aged 51, served as Director of Income Tax Processes and Systems for Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. from August 2009 until April 2010, and as Corporate Controller and Tax Manager [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields announces the spring auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on April 20, 2010. The 430 lot sale will offer a diverse group of high quality works spanning the evolution of 20th century design by well-known figures of the period. The sale will feature strong examples of Arts & Crafts, [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company New York has announced that it will offer The Halsey Minor Collection of Contemporary Art and Design at auction. Mr. Minor, a technology entrepreneur, founded CNET Networks in San Francisco in 1993. Since then he has amassed a highly important collection of works by renowned artists and [Read More]
Gray’s Auctioneer’s announces a Furniture and Decorative Arts Auction to be held Thursday April 15 2010 at 1 pm. Highlights include numerous lots of 19th and 20th century furniture, including a stunning Georgian Style Mahogany Three Part Bookcase. Other offerings include a uniquely carved 17th Century Spanish Walnut Low Table (pictured). Also [Read More]
On Sunday, April 18th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell over 450 lots just consigned from local estates as well as the second phase of an estate stored unseen since the late 1970s. Silver highlights include the massive seven piece Cartier .950 Silver Coffee and Tea Service including a 30″ by [Read More]
On 12 May 2010 Sotheby’s New York will offer the most important work by Brice Marden ever to appear at auction, “Cold Mountain I” (Path). Executed in 1988-89, the masterwork was the first in the artist’s acclaimed series of six monumental (108 x 144 in.) canvases named for Han Shan, known as [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York spring sale of modern and contemporary Prints will take place on 29 and 30 April and will offer collectors a broad selection of modern and contemporary works spanning the 20th century. Prior to the two-day auction, the sale will be on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning [Read More]
Tranzon Integrated Property Group (“Tranzon IPG”) and Tranzon Fox (“Tranzon Fox”) announced today that it will be conducting a UCC foreclosure auction with respect to ownership rights to 12 elder care facilities throughout Northern New Jersey in Bergen, Morris, Mercer and Somerset Counties. The portfolio will be sold as a whole and [Read More]
Max Spann Real Estate & Auction Co., one of the nation’s premier auction companies, is holding seven separate auctions in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland between April 10 and May 23. The properties range from high-rise, luxury condos in Philadelphia, Hudson County’s Gold Coast in New Jersey and Wilmington, DE to [Read More]
Artfact Live! is pleased to announce the Sloans & Kenyon April Estate Catalogue Auction beginning April 16 is available for online bidding exclusively through Artfact Live! The 3 day auction offers over 1,600 lots including: Asian art, silver, rugs, Americana, furniture, ceramics, fine art, clothing, jewelry and more. If you can’t join [Read More]
The Directors of Bonhams, international fine arts auctioneers, are pleased to announce the appointment of Amy J. Lawch, G.G. as the firm’s Regional Representative for Houston, Texas. As Regional Representative, Ms. Lawch, an Accredited Appraiser certified by the International Society of Appraisers, will be the liaison between the auctioneers and Houston Area [Read More]