(DES MOINES, Ia.) – More than 500 lots of petroliana items – mostly gas and oil signs but to include globes, cans and a great collection of rest room signs – will be sold by Matthews Auctions, LLC, on Friday, Aug. 6, at 9 a.m. (CST). The auction will be conducted at [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 21, 2010
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A London scene by English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930), entitled Skating at Hampstead, 1929, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been estimated at £50,000 – 70,000. The picture was bought by the present owner [Read More]
Three missing preparatory oil sketches for one of golf most iconic pictures, “A Grand Match played over St Andrews Links in 1841” are to be sold by Bonhams Sporting auction in Chester on 16 June. The paintings are portraits of three prominent gentlemen who feature in the picture including the Earl of [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York, presented the second offering of rare books and manuscripts from The James S. Copley Library achieving a total of $2,783,347, bringing the total for the first four auctions of the Library to $7,146,231. The Mark Twain Collection totaled $936,012 and was led by Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ unpublished autobiographical manuscript [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions is delighted to bring to market an important selection of works from two major 20th century authors featured in its June 23rd, Travel, Literature, Autographs and Fine Books sale. The two-part sale, which takes place at 10am and 2pm in Bloomsbury’s Manhattan salesroom, presents 580 lots split into six sections [Read More]