Sotheby’s London announced that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Monday, June 28, 2010 will present collectors with a one-off opportunity to acquire some of the best Post-War and Contemporary artworks by the venerated and highly sought-after School of London artists Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, as well as Paula [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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Atlantic Asset Management Group, Inc., (www.atlanticremarketing.com) announces the auction of nine residential waterfront lots on the Elizabeth River on Thursday, June 17, at 6pm, according to William J. Summs, auctioneer. “This is Norfolk’s last waterfront subdivision, and it’s only five minutes from downtown,” explained Summs. “We have a total of nine empty [Read More]
Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace, and .CO Internet S.A.S., the registry operator for the .CO top-level domain (TLD), today announced Lonnie Borck from B52 Media and Uri Kerbel from Bookmarks.com have both won the historic e.CO charity domain auction with the final bid of $81,000. All proceeds from the e.CO auction [Read More]
Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces online auctions of government assets from two Southwest Florida locations, according to Jerry Jenkins. “All these government assets from locations in Cape Coral and Fort Myers, Fla., will sell to the highest bidders during an online only auction,” Jenkins said. “We have a 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser [Read More]
An eclectic collection of furniture created by British designer Steven Thomas for the legendary 1960s and 1970s fashion store Biba is to be sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge as part of its Vision 21 sale on 30 June 2010 at 1pm. Many of the pieces were originally sold by Bonhams on 4 October [Read More]
Dedham, MA – On Sunday, June 6, Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers brought a large assortment of of Fine Art, 18th and 19th century Furniture and Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from a variety of estates and collections, to the auction block. The sale, one of the largest [Read More]
ValCom, Inc. and its My Family TV broadcast network subsidiary today announced that it will be partnering with Direct Shopping Network (DSN), a leading shopping channel, to conduct monthly, live real estate auctions. ValCom and Direct Shopping Network conducted a test auction on November 14th that exceeded initial revenue projections. The success [Read More]
Christie’s New York sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Art featuring Select Works from the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries on June 9 achieved $11,749,750/£8,103,276/€9,791,458 with sell-through rates of 60% by lot, 78% by value. The top lot of the sale was William Bouguereau’s Pietà, painted in 1876, which sold for $2,770,500/£1,910,690/€2,308,750 – the [Read More]
Sotheby’s two-day auction of The Collection of Patricia Kluge, held in Charlottesville Virginia, concluded bringing $15,158,227, exceeding pre-sale expectations (est. $9/14 million). Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard. Photo: TTR-Sotheby’s International Realty The historic sale was the first on-site house sale conducted by Sotheby’s in North America in over 20 years, and more [Read More]
The live, on-site auction of Felicity Farm, a pristine 15.8-acre estate with grand residence in Wawa, Pennsylvania, has been moved to Saturday, June 26, and the reserve has been lowered to $1 million, announced George Graham, CEO of Concierge Auctions. Previously offered to $3.7 million, the property will absolutely sell to the [Read More]
Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it has been selected by Simmons & Company Auctioneers, Inc. to provide live online bidding for its two-day Winchester advertising, memorabilia and sporting goods and tools auction, slated for Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26 at 9:00 a.m. [Read More]
Bonhams is proud to present the unique red Silverstone Calibre 11 Chronograph designed as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of TAG Heuer, and to be auctioned for charity on Wednesday 15th December. The watch is estimated to fetch £6,000-8,000 and will be sold alongside The Haslinger Collection of fine and rare [Read More]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, sold more than 2, 200 equipment items, including 70 cranes, during a two-day multi-million euro Grand Opening unreserved public auction held last week (June 3 – 4) in Ocana, Spain. The auction attracted thousands of people, including more than 1,100 [Read More]
May was an exciting month in the world of online auctions. Keno Auctions, owned by American antiques expert Leigh Keno, set three world records during its Inaugural sale; Dargate Auction Galleries sold 756 lots to online bidders in its most successful online auction since joining Artfact Live! and Artcurial’s May 11th Hermès [Read More]
A superbly colorful and remarkably well-preserved American hand-carved Cigar Store Indian, which had sat in a Washington, D.C.-area basement for at least 20 years, brought a world record public auction price of $203,150 on May 22 as the top lot in Heritage Auction Galleries’ Grand Format Political & Americana Auction. The auction [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Important Books and Manuscripts in London on 27th May was an outstanding success, with three world records for an inscribed Das Kapital by Karl Marx, a letter from the illustrator John Tenniel to Lewis Carroll and an inscribed first edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker. The sale totalled [Read More]
An historic Colt 1862 Revolver that belonged to Lieutenant A. Sinclair of the Confederate States Navy, who served aboard the Alabama, the famous Civil War raider, is estimated to sell for £10,000 to £15,000 at Bonhams sale of Antique Arms and Armour on July 28th. CSS Alabama (1862-1864), a 1050-ton screw steam [Read More]
Concierge Auctions will conduct a live luxury real estate auction of the Teton Valley Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on July 16. The highest bidder over $15 million will be the new owner. The sale is being conducted in cooperation with listing broker Richard Lewis of the Lewis, Lewis & Kleiman team [Read More]