Christie’s Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Spring Auction on 30 May, at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, presents distinctive highlights from some of the most vibrant and invigorating voices within Southeast Asia’s art scene. Featuring 115 works spanning the history and geography of the Southeast Asian region, the sale [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
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The next auctions offered on CivicSource Auctioneer are on September 14th, 15th and 16th. Jeanerette, LA Online Property Auction Details: > 74 available properties — commercial, mobile homes, and residential lots > Price ranges $23.02 to $389.90 > All are delinquent tax sales New Orleans, LA Online Property Auction Details: > 6,001 [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Tuesday, 10th May, 2011 features A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster by Dutch Golden Age Artist Jan Steen (1626-1979). This painting may be regarded as one of Jan Steen’s finest treatments of a schoolroom interior. Furthermore, it is thus far his only known representation of a schoolroom that [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer exceptional items from all over Europe in it’s Paris sale on May 17. The highlight promises to be an exceptional gold and enamel snuff-box, inset with an agate cameo of Napoleon’s brother-in-law (and King of Naples) Joachim Murat and his hair (est. €60,000-80,000*). There will also be a gold [Read More]
Christie’s fine art auctioneers, will offer a revolving vase from the Qianlong period (1736-1795) (estimate on request) at its upcoming Hong Kong Spring Sale of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 1 June 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Preserved in perfect condition, the rotating vase has reticulated [Read More]
Proxibid, the world’s largest real auction marketplace, will provide live online bidding for the Wayne and Shirley Woodrum lifetime collection, presented by Rich Penn Auctions. The three-day auction will take place Thursday, May 5 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern and Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, in conjunction [Read More]
A MAGNIFICENT George V Gold Freedom Casket enamelled with the arms of the County Borough of Newport (Wales) will highlight Matthew Barton Ltd’s auction of Silver, Works of Art and Objects of Vertu. The sale will take place on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 in West Kensington at 25 Blythe Road, W14. It [Read More]
The sign was the top lot in a sale held April 16 at Redlands Antique Auction in Redlands, Calif. (REDLANDS, Calif.) – A round Union “Minute Man Service” double-sided porcelain sign with graphics, 30 inches in diameter and boasting great gloss and color, sold for $12,938 – a new record price for [Read More]
The May Sale includes items to suit all tastes and pockets AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION of 17th and 18th Century Italian marble sculpture will be offered in the hugely popular sale of Garden Statuary and Ornament – both antique and modern – at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby’s) on Tuesday, May [Read More]
Following the success of Part 1 of the Edward Wrangham Collection in November 2010, which realised over £2 million and included a world record price for an inro** sold at auction, Bonhams is delighted to announce the second sale of the collection that will take place at Bonhams, New Bond Street on [Read More]
The stellar cellar of a northeast gentleman is expected to bring in the range of $3,000,000 when it comes under the hammer on May 6 at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills (simulcast to SHORE Bar & Restaurant, 3rd Floor, The L Place, 139 Queens Road, Central, in Hong Kong, the morning of [Read More]
Sotheby’s London has announced that it will offer for sale The Duerckheim Collection, a collection of the most significant and defining German Art of the 1960s and 1970s ever to come to market, in the forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction Series in June. This collection represents a remarkably detailed and complete survey of [Read More]
A rare, hand written pre-production storyboard for one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most problematic films, ‘Stage Fright’, of 1950 is for sale at the Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 7 June. It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. The production files for all Hitchcock’s films after 1940 are kept in the [Read More]
Swann Galleries will conduct a two-session auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books, and 19th & 20th Century Literature, on May 12. The sale begins at 10:30 a.m. with a selection of architecture and art journals, livres d’artiste, fine private press books, original illustrations and works on fashion and design. The afternoon [Read More]
Mosby & Co. will make the transition to live auctions with a May 14 sale at its new 4,200 sq. ft. gallery located in the Washington suburb of Frederick, Maryland. With a successful record in the production of absentee and online auctions to serve as his springboard, Mosby & Co.’s principal, Keith [Read More]
On May 10, 2011, Bonhams will present 170 lots of stunning photography from famed artists Hiroshi Sugimoto, Edward Weston, Richard Misrach, Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Garry Winogrand during its Fine Photographs auction in New York. This photographs sale will be simulcast in three cities—New York, San Francisco and Los [Read More]
American Race Into Space Celebrated At Bonhams New York Auction On The 50th Anniversary Of Alan Shepard’s First Space-Flight Bonhams New York annual Space History sale takes place on Thursday May 5 at its saleroom on Madison Avenue, and features 250 lots that chronicle the Space Race, space exploration and the American [Read More]
Christie’s African and Oceanic Art department have announced the Paris sale of a major piece of Central Polynesian art originating within the triangle formed by the Society, the Austral and the Cook Islands. The very rare Ohly figure is estimated between 600,000 and 800,000 euros. There is a small corpus of extant [Read More]