Christie’s London announced that they will offer an icon of Pop Art – Silver Liz by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 30 June 2010. Unseen in public for over 20 years, the work was executed in 1963 and is one of only 2 paintings [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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eFleetDirect has partnered with ZOOMWAREHOUSE, a new, dynamic online auction to sell fleet, off-lease and repossession vehicles. Unlike traditional physical and online auctions which represent both the buyer and seller, eFleetDirect in this venue is the seller and values a strong relationship with the buyers. Using ZOOMWAREHOUSE means there is no “middleman” [Read More]
Bonhams celebrated its second motorcycle auction at Quail Lodge in Carmel this past month demonstrating the market’s strong interest in early machines. With 77 lots selling for more than $600,000, the recent sale was by far the most successful motorcycle auction to date this year in America. Bonhams is no stranger to [Read More]
International real estate investment and services company Kennedy Wilson announced that it offered and sold 27 homes of the 27-story twin point towers at Palisade Palms, a beachfront luxury condominium project located in Galveston, TX, through an auction it conducted on Sunday, June 6th at the Omni Houston Hotel. The auction was [Read More]
Jesse James of West Coast Choppers fame will sell his 1936 Ford Custom Five Window Coupe at No Reserve during the Inaugural 2010 Barrett-Jackson Orange County Auction. This is the first time that James has consigned a vehicle from his personal collection at Barrett-Jackson. The hot rod will be one of the [Read More]
Copies of the first four editions of Wisden, the world famous ‘Bible of Cricket’, are for sale at Bonhams Book Sale in Oxford on 29 June. They are being sold on behalf of Oxfam, as are many other items in the sale. Wisden was first published in 1864 by the cricketer John [Read More]
A pair of elegant mahogany Chippendale side chairs with shell carved back, pierced splats slip seats all set on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet, Massachusetts, circa 1760 were among the hundreds of items sold at Nadeau’s Auction Gallery’s annual American Antiques auction, held March 27th. The pair sold for $6,325. [Read More]
Christie’s New York announced that it has been entrusted with the sale of The Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection on September 16 as part of Christie’s Fall Asian Art Week. This collection of approximately 120 lots valued in excess of $15 million will be led by a [Read More]
Christie’s New York announced the appointment of Mr. Everett Fahy, former chairman of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former Director of the Frick Collection, as senior consultant to Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Art department. Mr. Fahy is widely recognized as one of most distinguished scholars of [Read More]
On Tuesday 6th July 2010, in the first ever sale of its type, Sotheby’s will bring together some 21 lots, the intrinsic quality and importance of which will be matched by extraordinary nature of their provenance. Ranging in date from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and emanating from all corners of [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Important Russian Art auction, the first of our Summer sales of Russian Art this week, tonight realised a total of £10,448,450 ($15,079,203) almost reaching the pre-sale top estimate (est. £7,730,000-11,320,000). The auction, which was well-attended, established two new artist records and achieved an extremely healthy sell-through rate by value of [Read More]
On June 23rd Bonhams’ Book Department closes their spring-summer 2010 season with a New York auction that features a number of fresh-to-the-market high spots. This diverse sale spans the centuries from the 1490s to the 1990s. Among the most coveted lots of the sale, and the undisputed highlight in the category of [Read More]
Qualified buyers will have the opportunity to purchase a one-of-a-kind, custom-built home near Asheville, N.C., and the Great Smoky Mountains this month. Conducted by Mike Fisher, auctioneer and chief executive officer of United Country – The Redfield Group, the live auction will take place onsite at 30 Luska Ridge, Waynesville, N.C. Registration [Read More]
A collection of 19th century photographic portraits of Russian Royalty goes under the hammer at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale on 8 June in London (estimate £2,000 – 4,000). Many of the portraits are of the family of Tsar Nicholas I who reigned from 1825 to 1855 and of the [Read More]
A special event in Wil (St. Gallen), Switzerland, proved to be a highlight in the schedules of several hundred stamp collectors and investors from all over the world this week: On the evening of Friday, 4 June 2010, the world’s most significant stamp auction at the Rapp auction house, ended with an [Read More]
A rare set of ancient royal jewelry, consisting of a necklace and amulet named “The Pleiades Star Crescent Necklace”, is to be sold at a private auction being held by high-end luxury auction-house BillionaireXchange (www.BillionaireXchange.com). On May 13, 2010, Forbes, CNN, Fox and many other news sources reported that a very rare [Read More]
Tranzon Auction Properties, with corporate offices in Portland, Maine, announced today that it has been engaged by TD Bank to market and auction 16 gas and convenience stores stretching from Southern New Hampshire to South-Eastern Massachusetts. “We’re marketing these properties locally, regionally and nationally to alert interested parties of the sales scheduled [Read More]
Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, is pleased to announce the global launch of Christie’s Mobile Web, an optimized mobile experience that is free to all users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), regardless of the device’s operating platform. The move builds on the July 2009 launch of [Read More]