Concierge Auctions will conduct a live, on-site luxury real estate auction of 755 F Avenue, a stunning estate with a guest home in the affluent community of Coronado Village, on August 12. Originally listed for $2,899,000, the auction is absolute, meaning the property will sell to the highest bidder regardless of price. [Read More]
Daily Archives: July 9, 2010
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A portrait by Joaquín Sorolla, entitled ‘La Bella Raquel’ is to highlight Bonhams 19th Century Paintings auction on 29th September 2010, New Bond Street, London. Acclaimed as a ‘genius’ by Sarah Bernhardt, Raquel Meller was a highly popular singer who started life singing cuplés (couplets) to earn a living. These were considered [Read More]
Mecum Auctions announces total gross sales – excluding buyer’s premium – for its two-day Bloomington Gold Corvette Auction in St. Charles, Ill., were $4.5 million. More than 300 Corvettes crossed the block at Bloomington Gold, and the Top 10 Sales (all sales reflect hammer prices) were: 1. 1956 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible (Lot [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will offer, a newly discovered drawing by John William Waterhouse (1849?1917) on Thursday, 13th July. Unrecorded in the literature on the artist, the charcoal study of Flora comes to the market following the recent Waterhouse retrospective at the Royal Academy in London and in the Netherlands and Canada. Flora’s mythology [Read More]
A 1966 Aston Martin DB6 whose original owner was legendary crooner and actor Bing Crosby will cross the block at the second annual Mecum Monterey Auction, August 13-14, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Resort & Spa. Selling with a copy of the title bearing Crosby’s name, the Aston Martin retains all [Read More]
FIRST CARS EVER TO BE SOLD FROM BMW FACTORY COLLECTION BMW have consigned two cars from their museum reserve collection for sale at Bonhams inaugural Collectors’ Motor Cars auction at the Royal Mirage Hotel, Dubai in October. This is the first time that cars have ever become available from the official factory [Read More]
A Starfleet officer’s jacket and undershirt worn by William Shatner as Admiral James T. Kirk in the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan, will be sold at Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills (9478 West Olympic Boulevard) as part of a trove of Star Trek-related material in the company’s July 17 [Read More]