One of the earliest known hand-coloured impressions of a 20th century iconic image, Edvard Munch’s Madonna, is being offered for sale at Bonhams Print sale on 13 July 2010. It is estimated to fetch between £500,000 – 700,000. The museum quality impression, which has never been seen in public, is signed and [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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Sierra Auction Management, Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona-based public auction company, announced the launch of a newly redesigned website that will enhance the ability for the general public to view, search and obtain information related to the sale of government and other agency surplus, seized and abandoned vehicles, equipment and personal property at [Read More]
A unique and fascinating painting goes under the hammer at Bonhams in the 19th and 20th Century Pictures and Prints sale in Edinburgh on 22 April. Although the signature on the painting of Broughty Ferry Harbour, Dundee, is that of Ian Morrison the work is actually by two of Scotland’s most famous [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam will auction impressive garden sculptures and architectural ornaments from the Piet Jonker collection on Wednesday 26th May, 2010. The auction will have 350 high quality lots that have been selected personally by Piet Jonker and Sotheby’s specialists. Numerous sculptures, fountains, benches, tables, vases, flower pots and other works of art [Read More]
Kristine Eubanks, 52, got seven years in federal prison for selling counterfeit paintings through rigged, TV art auctions, that netted $20 million from about 10,000 victims, during 2002 – 2006. Eubanks of La Canada Flintridge pleaded guilty in April 2007 to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate transportation [Read More]
CDC Software (NASDAQ: CDCS), a global provider of enterprise software applications and services, today announced it plans to integrate its cloud-based on-demand eCommerce platform with one of North America’s premier auction marketplaces as part of a strategic partnership with Bidz.com (NASDAQ: BIDZ), a leading online jewelry auctioneer in North America. This partnership [Read More]
Stars For A Cause, in collaboration with the Chrysler Group, is proud to auction off a 2010 Chrysler 300 eco style Edition car that was autographed and personalized by recording artist and film star Christina Aguilera to benefit the United Nations World Food Programme, with relief going towards Haiti. This vehicle will [Read More]
Today, ShipAlmostAnything.com ushers in a new way for shippers and service providers to conveniently get the most out of their shipping experience by launching the first-ever commission-free, online auction shipping site. ShipAlmostAnything.com has no registration fees. This means that shippers can list their stuff, select from multiple bids of nationally-ranked shipping service [Read More]
On Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25, 2010 at Noon, the Rago Arts and Auction Center holds a 900+ lot auction of 20th C. decorative arts and furnishings, the vast majority new to the market, fresh from private collections secured in the US and abroad. “Our April auction is full of [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
(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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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, [Read More]
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 [Read More]