Jeff Koons Balloon Flower (Blue) will highlight Christie’s New York’s November 2010 Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale. The work, executed from 1995-2000 is estimated from $12,000,000 to $16,000,000. Jeff Koons, Balloon Flower (Blue), 1995- 2000. High cromium stainless steel, mirrored polish finish with transparent color coating, 133 7/8x 112 1/4x 102 3/8in [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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On November 19 & 20 Noel Barrett will auction will be one of the most important sales of 2010. It will feature toys from the Tom Gray Collection along with those of the Old Salem Toy Museum of Winston Salem, NC The museum’s holdings were primarily gifts from Tom and his mother [Read More]
Bonhams is to hold its inaugural U.S. three-city Wine auction on October 16, 2010. Session 1 will be held in New York City and simulcast to San Francisco and Los Angeles, and Session 2 will be held in San Francisco and simulcast to Los Angeles and New York. This unique auction format [Read More]
National Commercial Auctioneers (www.natcomauctions.com) announces the absolute auction of over 9,200 acres of oil and gas leases, including non-producing mineral rights and non-producing royalty and overriding royalty interests. Additional assets in the auction include leases held by production and mineral rights, according to Stephen Karbelk, CAI, AARE. The auction will be held [Read More]
Sotheby’s fine art auctioneers have announced the sale of Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, the most significant painting by the British artist to appear at auction in several seasons, in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 9 November 2010 in New York. The 1985 portrait of a man twisting and writhing, [Read More]
SACRAMENTO, Calif – A trove of 375 rare and vintage bottles will be sold to the highest bidders in an Internet and catalog auction slated for Oct. 29-Nov. 9 by American Bottle Auctions (www.americanbottle.com). It will be the 51st sale for the firm. Most of the bottles date to 1850-1900, the period [Read More]
Dan Morphy’s Auctions next sale is slated for Oct. 15-16 and will feature the extraordinary Cristol/Glickman family’s doll collection, the advertising clocks of longtime collectors Jerry and Millie Maltz, and part II of the Michael O’Hearn vintage toy collection. The 1,850-lot auction will appeal to those who seek “fresh-to-market antiques with deep [Read More]
The Crosby Garrett Helmet has been sold at an Antiquities auction at Christie’s South Kensington for £2,281,250 / $3,629,469 / €2,593,781 (estimate: £200,000 to £300,000). An exceptional survival from Roman Britain, the helmet was discovered by a metal detectorist in Cumbria in May 2010 and dates from the late 1st-2nd Century A.D. [Read More]
On Monday, October 11th at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction’s new Post Road building will host a public auction created from estates in Manhattan, Great Neck, Purchase, Rye and Greenwich as well as the contents of Hamptons and Englewood homes as found in local storage facilities. Antique highlights are two chest-on-chests with great [Read More]
ATLANTA, Ga. – Red Baron – the premier auction house in the Southeast – has saved the best for last in 2010 with a fall auction that will be packed with over 2,000 lots that would impress even the most discriminating and seasoned collector. The weekend event will be held Nov. 6-7 [Read More]
Christie’s New York announced the sale of The Collection of Robert Shapazian. Shapazian’s passion for the arts was reflected in his life-long dedication to the field, his friendships with those in it and his personal, yet masterful collection which Christie’s will offer in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales [Read More]
Greg Martin Auctions presents its Fall Sale on October 9 & 10 at Greg Martin Auctions’ offices in Irvine, California. The event features an extensive array of antique arms, sporting arms, militaria and historic collectibles. Over 1780 lots will be offered in three sessions over two days. The Sunday session offers the [Read More]
Joining the World Championship-winning Helmut Fath URS sidecar outfit and Seeley-URS Grand Prix racing solo already on offer at Bonhams next motorcycle auction will be the customary eclectic mix of over 200 machines. The sale is part of The Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at Stafford County Showground on 17th October. A highlight [Read More]
Bonhams is delighted to announce that two cars in the Veteran Motorcar and Automobilia Sale on Friday November 5th at New Bond Street have been entered into the fiercely contested London to Brighton run, which takes place two days later. Although Bonhams has been involved in the run for over twenty years [Read More]
On October 27 and 28 Swann Galleries New York will conduct a three-part print auction featuring material that is truly museum worthy. The sale begins on Wednesday, October 27 with more than 150 lots devoted to Whistler and His Influence, which offers rare and important etchings, drypoints and lithographs from the 1850s [Read More]
Starting with its launch October 6, SolutionAuctions.com is a new way to trade answers to any question. It’s an online auction site that allows anyone to post solutions to specific problems and sell them at their own price or to post a question and take bids for the answer. Every new solution [Read More]
BUFORD, Ga – Over 1,200 lots of self-taught art in a variety of forms – from face jugs to paintings, quilts to pottery – will be offered the weekend of Nov. 13-14 by Slotin Folk Art Auction at the Historic Buford Hall, located at 112 East Shadburn Avenue. The dates have been [Read More]
Seoul Auction held its Modern & Contemporary Art Autumn Sale in Hong Kong at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. 60 works by celebrated Western, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese artists were offered and a total of HK$78.52 million/ US$10.21 million was achieved. Discerning collectors from around the world congregated to compete for artworks [Read More]