RM Auctions, is now on the countdown to its inaugural sale at London’s Salon Privé luxury car show and Concours d’Elegance on 23rd June, 2011. The sale, which is only open to British-built automobiles, has attracted fifty-seven stunning examples of ‘Quintessentially English’ cars including some significant collections of Aston Martin, Jaguar and [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 9, 2011
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Heritage Auctions has announced that it will hold a special catalog auction this Sept. 12, 2011, in Beverly Hills, from the estate of pioneering collector, publisher, historian, and scholar Jerry Weist, who passed away on Jan. 7 of this year. The science-fiction and fantasy themed artwork, rare first-edition books, movie posters, fanzines, [Read More]
An oil painting entitled ‘The three-masted English merchantman Integrity in two positions in the Saint Lawrence River arriving at Montreal’ will feature in the Old Master Paintings auction on 6th July at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London. Any painting which incorporates a named merchant vessel in British North America and which can [Read More]
An Impressive Private Collection of great wines from France, put together by a British collector, is to lead Sotheby’s London sale of Finest and Rarest Wines on Wednesday, 15 and Thursday, 16 June, 2011. The collection, which comprises 710 lots and forms the first day of this two-day auction, is estimated to [Read More]
A Park Avenue Interior by Mark Hampton realized $1,595,988/£973,163/€1,093,142 and was sold 94% by lot and 91% by value at Christie’s New York. The top lot was An Italian bronze ecorche model of a pacing horse, possibly attributed to Luigi Valadier, realizing $98,500/£60,061/€67,465. Andrew McVinish, Vice President, European Furniture and Collections, said [Read More]
Amy Cappellazzo has been appointed Chairman, Post-War and Contemporary Development at Christie’s. With a decade at the World’s Leading Art Business, Cappellazzo most recently held the title of International Co-Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Deputy Chairman. In her newly created position, Cappellazzo reporters to Steven Murphy, Christie’s Chief Executive Officer. The [Read More]