Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer at auction on Tuesday 17 May 2011 Marie-Antoinette (1986) by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (1945). Kiefer’s Marie-Antoinette was a gift to designer and interior decorator Benno Premsela from the famous Dutch furniture designer Martin Visser . Premsela received the present work for his help with the negotiations [Read More]
Daily Archives: May 10, 2011
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On the 19th May, Bonhams will hold its third London sale of 2011 at New Bond Street, which will feature an eclectic selection of fine and rare wines, both ancient and modern. The top lot of the sale is eleven bottles of La Tache 1978, Domaine de la Romanee Conti (estimate £18,000-22,000), [Read More]
The auction was held April 23rd at the Sheraton Great Valley hotel facility in Malvern, Pa. (MALVERN, Pa.) – A gorgeous early 19th century Simon Willard tall case clock, regal at 93 ½ inches tall and signed “Warranted by S. Willard” on the dial, sold for $32,900 at a multi-estate auction held [Read More]
Pétrus, Mouton, Lafite and DRC Achieve Top Prices (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart held another highly successful wine auction this weekend in Chicago, realizing $6,382,853 in total sales against a pre-auction estimate of $4,402,640-$6,593,490. Wines from Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Pétrus, and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti generated spirited [Read More]
The Ronnie and Sandy Rosen collection of comic character toys is among the featured attractions in Bertoia’s big 1,480-lot auction to be held June 10-11, 2011. It took weeks to catalog the enormous array of beautiful toys, banks and doorstops chosen for Bertoia Auctions’ June 10-11 Toys with Character sale, and gallery [Read More]
A portrait of François Roques, the first outside artistic advisor to the renowned Fashion House Hermès, will be offered in the Russian Sale on 8th June at Bonhams, New Bond Street. Painted by Marie Vassilieff in 1930, the portrait is estimated to sell for £50,000 – 80,000. During the 1920s François Roques [Read More]
Julien’s Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills is to auction personal antiques, fine and decorative art, furniture, and memorabilia from the classic 1980’s primetime soap opera Dallas in California on Saturday, June 4, 2011. Larry Hagman, stage, film and television actor, producer, director, and charitable spokesman, is best known for his roles as [Read More]
Sotheby’s offers for sale Part II of the Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Arts of India, on May 31, 2011, This follows the outstanding total of £20.9 million achieved last month for Part I of the Stuart Cary Welch Collection Arts of the Islamic World which established an auction record for any Islamic [Read More]