(ABERDEEN, Miss.) – There will be no rest for the weary at Stevens Auction Company in April. The firm has two major events lined up: the multi-estate auction of three prominent estates on Saturday, April 16, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
An exceptional selection of military medals have been discovered recently on a valuation day and are to be sold on 2nd June at Richard Winterton Auctioneers, Fradley Park, Lichfield. The group includes a WW11 Distinguished Flying […]
The last letter in private hands from Keats to his lover Fanny Brawne has set a world record for a document by the poet when it sold for £96,000 at the Roy Davids Collection of Papers […]
A new auction record for a print by Paul Gauguin was achieved when Crouching Tahitian Woman Seen From The Back sold for £577,250 ($924,466), over three times the estimate (£180,000-220,000), at a Sotheby’s in London. The […]
The Milwaukee Braves baseball jersey that Hank Aaron – arguably the greatest living hero of the golden age of America’s pastime – wore in 1954, the year that began his fabled career, will be the centerpiece […]
Dr. Tarsey, a philanthropist, collected fine art, Asian objects, porcelains, silver, jewelry, more. (PANAMA CITY, Fla.) – The estate of the late Dr. Tanja B. Tarsey – a chemist and philanthropist who died in 2009 and […]
Sotheby’s New York have auctioned the Property of a Palm Beach Private Collector achieving $8,397,649, almost double the pre-sale high estimate*. The auction was led by a strong group of over 80 pieces of Chinese porcelain […]
Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC has announced their Spring Auction of Russian Art will take place on April 16, 2011 during “Russian Art Week” in New York City. Both the auction and a full week of preview […]
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Filipa Rebelo de Andrade as the company’s representative in Portugal. She is based in Lisbon. Filipa’s professional experience includes an art curatorship at the Fundacao Oriente in […]
Antique furniture, lighting, clocks, decorative accessories, fine art, jewelry will change hands. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – What is being appropriately billed as an Exceptional Antique Auction has been planned for Saturday, May 21, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, […]
Technologizer reports that pay-per-bid auction site Swoopo has filed for bankruptcy, “although the company’s front page claims “technical issues,” documents from a Munich, Germany bankruptcy court indicate its parent company — Shopping Entertainment AG — filed […]
Sotheby’s sales of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art have concluded, bringing the overall total for the series of auctions to $71,320,518 (est. $17.5/25.1 million), the highest total ever achieved anywhere in New York. All three […]
ohn Moran Auctioneers achieved a 100% sell-through rate in several categories of merchandise consigned from private collections to their March 8, 2011 Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction, including mid-century modern design, silver, rugs and Japanese art. […]
Phillips de Pury & Company have announced the sale of a rare, iconic portrait of the legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, painted by Andy Warhol in 1963. The stunning painting will be offered for sale in the […]
Sotheby’s will sell the most valuable emerald and diamond Tiara to have appeared at auction in over 30 years in its sale of Magnificent and Noble Jewels in Geneva on the 17th May 2011. Estimated to […]
WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY. The catalog for Robert Edward Auctions’ 2011 blockbuster sale will ship on April 12, 2011. While most of the auction is baseball-related, also included are seven original Warren cover paintings dating from 1968 […]
On Sunday, March 27th at 12:00 Noon, Clarke Auction will sell 400+ lots drawn from estates in Larchmont, Bronxville, Scarsdale, Fifth Avenue, Tuckahoe, Hunterdon County, Greenwich CT, Rye, and Fort Lee. Americana, Civil War and Medical […]
The quality and variety of merchandise could well result in the firm’s best auction in a long time. (MALVERN, Pa.) – Around 260 quality, fresh-to-the-market lots in a wide array of categories – vintage clocks, Asian […]