Turkish auction house, Antik A.S. will offer masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art, on 7 November. The sale consisting of selected 180 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. galleries during the dates 27 [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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Sotheby’s autumn Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from the 1970s, the sale features classic Impressionist paintings, key Modern works, [Read More]
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. – A 1954 Superman vs. The Robot lunch box in mint condition – widely regarded as the Holy Grail of rare and vintage lunch boxes – soared to $11,865 at a three-day multi-estate sale conducted Oct. 22-24 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Around 1,200 lots changed hands at the event, held [Read More]
An extremely fine collection of medieval hammered gold and silver coins has been discovered on a valuation day in Lichfield this week. The collection discovered by Stephen Wrenn, (Richard Winterton’s coin & medal expert) is one of finest collections he has seen throughout his career. The collector, a local man bought the [Read More]
Bonhams announce the November 11, 2010 auction of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art in New York. The fall sale will feature unique and traditional works from Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia, Australia, Central and South America from as early as 1200 B.C. to the 15th Century, prior to European contact. Highlighting the [Read More]
With a respectable overall result of EUR 2 million* and many world record prices, the auction of “Modern and Contemporary Art”, intended as an interim auction with works of up to EUR 20.000, was one of Germany’s very important auctions this year. “24 per cent new customers and an average increase of [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Stevens Auction Company, based in Aberdeen, Mississippi BROOKHAVEN, Miss. – The contents of two majestic and architecturally important homes in the modest town of Brookhaven, Miss. – located along I-55, south of Jackson and northeast of Baton Rouge, La. – will be sold in an on-site [Read More]
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – An exceptional cataloged antique auction featuring over 500 quality lots will be held Saturday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m. (EST), by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s gallery at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Internet bids may be placed via Live Auctioneers.com or the Fontaine’s Auction Gallery website [Read More]
A pair of Purdey shotguns once owned by Colonel William Stirling, who formed 2 Special Air Service in 1943, will be sold by Bonhams Sporting Gun Department on December 8th in Knightsbridge. The pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons are offered for sale with an estimate [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York 4 November auction of 19th Century European Art will feature three works by the prominent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. This offering comes just after the close of the important exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, which opened at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 2009 and traveled to [Read More]
Two letters written by Beatrix Potter just before the Second World War to the sculptress, Josefina de Vasconcellos, form part of an archive of papers being auctioned at Bonhams Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on 23 November (est £4,000-8,000). They provide a fascinating insight into the famous author’s no [Read More]
On October 21, 2010, PBA Galleries, Auctioneers, Rare Books & Manuscripts conducted a 450 lot auction of Americana, the Collection of Alex Schwed which included a large collection of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, California Pictorial Lettersheets, Gold Rush and California ephemera and Hawaiiana. Schwed, a California collector, has in recent years devoted [Read More]
During the last decade of his life, Edward Bawden CBE (1903-1989) carefully put together an archive of some three thousand items which he donated to the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Now Bawden’s friend and Executor Peyton Skipwith has instigated and curated a unique sale to be held at Bloomsbury Auctions in [Read More]
Two oil on canvas paintings by the official artist of the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Terence Cuneo (1907-1996), commissioned by the Ford Motor Company in 1947, are to be sold at Bonhams’ sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December. This year the annual end of year sale will [Read More]
Heritage Auctions has announced that Kathleen Guzman has been appointed as Managing Director of the company’s recently opened Manhattan office, located at 445 Park Avenue (at 57th Street) , where she will oversee day-to-day operations. “Kathleen is one of the best known auction professionals in the business,” said Greg Rohan, President of [Read More]
Impressive fine wine sale includes wide range of choices from prized Lafite Rothschild to varied dinner party lots and selection of champagne, just in time for the holidays BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host its fall auction of Fine Wines on November 2nd at 4 p.m. in its Boston gallery at [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields, will hold its annual holiday auction of Natural History on December 12, 2010. The sale will feature a diverse group of distinctive and high quality mineral specimens, exceptional fossils, gold nuggets and unusual jewelry including a selection of “phenomenal” gems as well as lapidary works of art. Leading the [Read More]
Cordier Antiques & Auctions will be offering a rare and important Herter Brothers cabinet as well as a monumental 19th century French enamel and brass automaton singing bird clock and important silver in their Two Day Fall Antique & Fine Art auction in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Other highlights include a Steinway baby [Read More]