Christie’s Hong Kong Spring 2010 sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art marks a 33% increase over the Fall 09 sale total. More than 10 records were set for both established and emerging artists from […]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
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Sotheby’s sale, the Splendour of Venice, to be held in London on Tuesday July 6, 2010, allows a glimpse into the dazzlingly beautiful world that existed inside some of Venice’s most splendid palazzi during some of […]
Phillips de Pury & Company announced the opening of a new uptown auction and exhibition gallery at 450 Park Avenue. The space will open in November with the first of the “Carte Blanche” sales, an innovative, […]
Sotheby’s Paris will offer one of the most carefully curated ensembles of African & Oceanic Art to be offered on the market in recent years, on June 16. The works come from a number of esteemed […]
Heritage Auction Galleries (HA.com) has announced the promotion of Cristiano Bierrenbach to the position of Vice President of International Numismatics. “In the short time Cris has been with Heritage, he has become instrumental to the impressive […]
Realizing total proceeds of € 1,2* million, the two day auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst on 17/18 May in Hamburg was a real success. With 83 percent lots sold, the special evening auction was […]
Bruce Nauman’s masterful charcoal, pencil, pastel and watercolor Human Nature, 1983, is expected to bring $250,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 9 Signature 74; Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art Auction at its Dallas […]
A 1957-58 Italian league winner’s medal, awarded to Welsh international footballer John Charles, is to be sold at Bonhams, Chester as part of its sale of Sporting Memorabilia on 16 June. It is expected to fetch […]
The summits of Moel Cynghorion and Foel Goch in Snowdonia National Park, UK are for auction in a land sale. The sale by Kivells takes place in Llanberis, Wales on 9 July. The summits, near Moel […]
Sotheby’s Paris will offer Furniture, Silver and Old Master Paintings formerly from the collection of Madame Antenor Patiño, on 22 September 2010. The collection – divided between La Quinta, her principal residence in Portugal, and her […]
Collective Real Estate Group announced that it will hold a sealed-bid real estate auction for 25 luxury condominiums at Florida’s pristine Seaview Place at Gulf Landings. The 3,500-acre premier triple-community development offers a direct deep-water boating […]
Midcentury Modern Design and Art Deco are highlighted by a Parzinger and Paul McCobb collection from a Rye estate including a pair of gorgeous Tommi Parzinger torchieres, a large Parzinger dining cart, and a George Nelson […]
An 85% original Dire Wolf skull being offered at public auction comes with a direct link to the world’s most famous tar pit, La Brea, and could bring more than $18,000 when it comes up as […]
Christie’s announced that they will offer one of the last of the great female portraits painted by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 23 June 2010. Executed in […]
Sale will be conducted at Finney’s spacious gallery in Schodack, N.Y., 15 minutes from Albany. (SCHODACK, N.Y.) – Hundreds of quality lots from the estate of the late Dr. Kevin-John McIntyre of East Greenbush, N.Y., will […]
The auction will be held at the Stevens Auction Company showroom in Aberdeen, at 9 a.m. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The lifetime single-owner collection of Carl Gillespie – mostly vintage toys and guns, but to include petroliana […]
The on-site auction will be held at the couple’s home, at 202 East Galena Road in Big Rock, Ill. (BIG ROCK, Ill.) – Brian and Kim Ward are celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary on Saturday, June […]
Bonhams Hong Kong today celebrated the first-ever “Golden Gavel Auction” in its history, when part of the world’s finest collection of important Chinese snuff bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, sold 100% and achieved world […]