Gray’s Auctioneers announced their 34th auction 19th and 20th Century European and American Paintings, to be held Thursday July 29 , 2010 at 1 pm. This sale features over 350 lots, with a particularly diverse collection of European, with a concentration of Hungarian artists. Lots of note include a stunning oil on [Read More]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
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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]
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]
Cat Auction Services has announced it will hold an unreserved public auction in Greenwood, Neb., on Thursday, July 29. Coming on the heels of heavy equipment auctions in Des Moines, Iowa, and the Twin Cities, Minn., Cat Auction Services returns to the Omaha area for the first time since its successful auction [Read More]
The current Formula 1 World Land Speed Record car, a 2006 Honda F1, nicknamed Bonneville 400, is estimated to sell for £10,000 – 20,000 at Bonhams Collectors’ Motor Cars sale at Silverstone on 24 July. This superb car accomplished a speed of 397kph on the fabled Bonneville Salt Flats in the USA, [Read More]
The historic Pine Lake Lodge Resort in Oma, Wisc. is going to auction on Saturday, August 14 at 11 a.m. (www.pinelakelodge.com) Maas Companies Inc, (www.maascompanies.com) an auction company specializing in selling real estate, industrial plants, equipment and special assets of Rochester, Minn. will conduct the sale at the resort, 4345 W. County [Read More]
Oklahoma-based Williams & Williams Worldwide Real Estate Auction, the premier brand in real estate auctions, prepares to auction more than 265 acres of property in Deer Park, Washington, approximately 20 miles north of Spokane. Included in the real estate auction are the Spokane RV Resort, Deer Park Golf Club, a luxury condominium, [Read More]
The Shannons MotorEx auction will be held on July 25 at the Sydney Showground. This will be the first year where the Holden Torana A9X will be up for auction. The ultimate enthusiasts’ Holden – a totally original and undisturbed Torana A9X Hatch ‘homologation special’ – is a standout vehicle of the [Read More]
Bonhams has been hosting an auction of important collector and sports cars during the world-renown Monterey Peninsula Car Week since 1998. So it is with great pleasure to once again be preparing for the annual August sale at Quail Lodge, which promises to be better than ever with a new, two-day format. [Read More]
Continuing its track record of strong live-auction results in 2010, Greg Martin Auctions’ third event of the year realized over $3 million in sales. Over 1,270 rare and historic arms and militaria came up for bid on June 26 and 27 in four sessions: Fine Antique & Collectible Arms, Collectible Colts & [Read More]
Located just outside Starkville, Miss., the Cane Creek Farm offers 76+/- acres, a 3,200 square foot main home, a six-stall show barn, additional barns, fishing lake, stock ponds, caretaker’s house and mill building. It will be sold absolute, regardless of price. Held in conjunction with United Country ? Bulldog Realty of Starkville, [Read More]
A monumental silver wine cooler, weighing 168 pounds (11 ½ stone or 2597 oz.) and measuring well over a meter across, has been sold at Sotheby’s for £2,505,250, establishing a new record price for English silver. The spectacular cistern, as “Large as a Small Bathing-Tub”, sold to a private Asian buyer. It [Read More]
Grand Estates Auction Co., the national leader in auctioning of one-of-a-kind luxury homes, sold $10.7 worth of premier properties during five June auctions extending from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the foothills of Colorado. Grand Estates’ extensive marketing program yielded a total of 1,040 inquiries, with more than 350 groups [Read More]