A design masterpiece by Virgil Exner and bodied by Ghia, this stunning 1952 Chrysler D’Elegance leads a host of sensational concept cars poised to cross RM’s Monterey auction podium next month, August 19 – 20 in California. Hemi-powered on a shortened New Yorker chassis, this stunning concept debuted at the 1952 Paris [Read More]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
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On July 28, Gray’s Auctioneers will be auctioning lot 177, a rare Civil War painting from1865 entitled ‘Our Flag is There’. The signature is indecipherable however the Gray’s appraisal team has discovered a sketch by Thomas Nast which was featured on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, February 13, 1864. The sketch is [Read More]
Signature Chef Auction Chairs Jason & Jaclyn Brodie and Joshua & Marcy Friedman of Brodie & Friedman PA are pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Signature Chefs Auction will be held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club September 9, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event begins with [Read More]
Morphy Auctions’ CEO Dan Morphy has announced the addition of a full-service sports memorabilia department to his company’s growing roster of specialty divisions. The new department is supervised by Morphy’s chief operation officer Tom Sage Jr. “We decided to open a sports department because of the increasing number of requests from collectors [Read More]
Sothebys London Finest and Rarest Wines auction totaled $1,387,218 £861,626 ($1,387,218). Stephen Mould, Head of Sotheby’s European Wine Department, said: “A solid end to one of our most successful first half years ever. We are already 70% up on last year’s total for the same period with sales in London exceeding £11,000,000. [Read More]
A case of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982, Pauillac, brought $50,788 to lead the day in the joint Heritage Auctions and Greg Martin Auctions $2.7+ million June 16 Signature® Wine Auction, held at the company’s Beverly Hills offices and simulcast live to Hong Kong. “Good results across the board,” said Frank Martell, Heritage’s [Read More]
artnet Auctions achieved a world record for the sale of an Andy Warhol 1978 painting entitled Flowers, which sold for US$1,322,500 (Premium), on Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1978. Acrylic and silkscreen inks on canvas, 22 x 22 in. Est. US$1,100,000–1,500,000. Sold for US$1,322,500 Premium The buyer was a private [Read More]
The World Land Trust and ethical coloured gemstones mining company, Gemfields, together with Jaguar Land Rover and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA India), have collaborated with ten of India’s top jewellery designers to create a unique ‘pop up’ collection of bespoke Zambian emerald jewellery. Following the success of ‘Emeralds for Elephants’ [Read More]
The August 9, 2011 sale of California and American Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields will offer a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and land and cityscapes. Noted artists represented in the summer auction include E. Charlton Fortune, Granville Redmond, Fredrick Remington and Arthur Grover [Read More]
JJManning Auctioneers is proud to offer a prime income opportunity on Cape Cod located at 251 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth (Quissett), MA k/a “Gardner’s House.” This is a fully leased 4-family home with a cottage in a prime location between Falmouth Village and Woods Hole Harbor. The property is just 16+/- miles [Read More]
Proxibid, will be the exclusive online bidding provider for Terry’s Furniture & Auction’s sale of a huge collection of fine arts, collectible toys, military items and vastly historic photo albums. The live auction will commence Saturday, July 30 at 2.00 p.m. Eastern, with online webcasting beginning simultaneously. To pre-bid or to view [Read More]
One of the highlights of The Marine Sale at Bonhams will be an exciting and previously unknown watercolour of ‘H.M.S. Terror and one of her boats off a spectacular iceberg, apparently in the Davis Strait, between Canada and Greenland.’ This remarkable work is estimated to sell for £10,000-15,000 when it is offered [Read More]
Seven images of a young Marilyn Monroe, then known as Norma Jeane – including one of Norma Jeane smiling in the California surf that, until recently, had remained unseen – are being offered by the family of acclaimed Hollywood photographer Richard C. Miller, as the Richard C. Miller Archive, as part of [Read More]
Churchill Told Doublas Bader Not to Lose this Book A small leather-bound book that powerfully evokes ‘The Few’ of WWII Battle of Britain, listing 107 signatures of RAF flying officers, goes on sale at Bonhams Militaria Sale in Oxford on August 2nd. Collected by Norman Phillips, a mess steward at RAF Marklesham [Read More]
Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, will showcase a significant selection of works on paper by 22 Modern Masters at its next 24-Hour Auction. The selection includes works by leading Indian artists Tyeb Mehta, V.S. Gaitonde, F.N. Souza, Nasreen Mohamedi, Arpita Singh, Jogen Chowdhury and more. The auction, which begins [Read More]
Bonhams announce the consignment of two very special cars for its Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia Sale at the Goodwood Revival Meeting on 16 September. In the 50th anniversary year of the E-Type Jaguar, these two tremendously exciting early consignments are none other than the ex-Sir Robert Ropner ‘Semi-Lightweight’ E-Type plus the [Read More]
Nursery equipment, supplies and other Division of Forestry inventory will be sold An absolute public auction will be held at the former Marietta State Nursery headquarters in Reno on Saturday, July 23, at 10 a.m., according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Forestry. The auction will be held [Read More]
Licensed real estate broker Rowell Auctions Inc. presents an online auction of 83 unique properties in the Georgia and North Carolina. Bidding ends on July 26th. The auction will include new homes, townhouses, subdivision lots, whole subdivisions, commercial properties, and businesses. This highly anticipated auction has many sought-after properties ranging from new [Read More]