The August 9, 2011 sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields offered a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and landscapes and cityscapes. Simulcast to San Francisco, the highly-anticipated auction brought more than $2.28 million and featured artists such as E. Charlton [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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Sotheby’s announce the appointment of Tim Bourne as Worldwide Head of its Watches department. Mr. Bourne will be based in Hong Kong, overseeing Sotheby’s Asia watch auctions in addition to those in Geneva, New York and London. This marks a strategic move in response to the rapid expansion of the auction market [Read More]
One of the finest paintings by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, possibly the best loved of Scottish artists, is for sale at the Annual Scottish Sale at Bonhams, Edinburgh on Wednesday 31 August. It has an estimate of £120,000-180,000. ‘Sea Gulls and Sapphire Seas’ was painted in 1909 and represents the artist at the [Read More]
Doyle New York will auction the personal collection of famed New York City restaurateur Elaine Kaufman on Tuesday, September 20 at 10 a.m. This historic auction comprises almost 250 lots of artwork, books, memorabilia, furniture, decorations, fashion and accessories that Elaine collected or was given during her lifetime. These personal treasures were [Read More]
Two rare and important watercolours by George French Angas are to be auctioned at Bonhams Australian Art sale on 22 August at Byron Kennedy Hall, Sydney. One shows the departure of Sturt’s third and final expedition from Adelaide, while the other depicts the first Royal Adelaide Show. They are estimated to fetch [Read More]
Julien’s Auctions, will offer a rare glimpse into the life of one of Hollywood’s most colorful stars, Tony Curtis. The rare Hollywood star whose off-screen character was often more sensational than his on-screen one, lived a life that could be its own movie or television series. Curtis’ career spanned six decades with [Read More]
Nearly 1,000 lots crossed the block in a successful auction that grossed more than $1.2 million. (HYANNIS, Mass.) – A spectacular and rare sicklebill curlew decoy made in Duxbury, Mass., by a craftsman whose identity is a matter of debate among veteran collectors, soared to $111,550 at an auction held July 24-25 [Read More]
Bonhams announce a very impressive assembly of exceptional touring cars from Europe and America at its auction in Carmel, California on August 18th-19th. In addition to the previously reported and widely covered 1925 Rolls-Royce New Phantom “Tiger Hunter” commissioned by the Maharaja of Kotah and the 1927 Bentley 6½ Liter Sports Tourer [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2011 will be held at Hall 3, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1 to 6 October 2011. The six-day sales series will offer the finest collections across eight collecting categories, namely Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Fine Chinese Paintings, 20th Century Chinese Art, Contemporary [Read More]
Shepard Fairey, one of today’s most influential street artists, is joining Russell Simmons, Danny Simmons and more than a dozen other acclaimed artists, to raise funds for RUSH Philanthropic through the 4th Annual Art for Life Online Auction at leading online charity auction site charitybuzz.com. Fairey has donated a beautiful hand-painted multiple [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company New York, announce ‘The World of Muriel Brandolini’, an interiors auction, on OCTOBER 21, 2011, 10AM, celebrating the life and work of decorator Muriel Brandolini. A blaze of color on the fall calendar, Brandolini’s sale will include works from her wide-ranging collection of decorative arts, contemporary design [Read More]
Bonhams new Contemporary Art Department announce the sale of a highly important work by one of the most influential Italian artists of the 20th century, Alighiero E Boetti (1940-1994), in the Department’s inaugural sale on 13 October 2011. Attracting a pre-sale estimate of £1,200,000 – 1,800,000 and entitled 1984, this monumental piece [Read More]
Zurich Asia, will be holding its largest sale of Stamps and Postal History of China, Hong Kong, India and other Countries between 13 and 15 August 2011 at The Excelsior in Hong Kong. Over 3,000 lots of rare and fine Chinese and Asian stamps, with an estimated total value of over HK$25 [Read More]
Included will be an historic bedroom suite once owned by the second wife of Jefferson Davis. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The antique furnishings of three prominent old Mississippi estates will be sold Saturday, Aug, 20, at 10 a.m. (CDT), by Stevens Auction Company, in the firm’s air-conditioned gallery at 609 North Meridian Street [Read More]
Bonhams announce that it will be offering what is considered one of the most significant surviving Bentleys in the world today at its Quail Lodge auction on August 18-19 in Carmel, California. The E. Bullivant 1927 Bentley 6½ Liter Sports Tourer with its original Coachwork by Vanden Plas is widely regarded as [Read More]
SOUVENIRS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SLEEPER-TRAIN COMPANY Christie’s announce the sale of souvenirs from the international sleeper-train company, including prints, posters, works of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art, Furniture and Works of Art, Porcelain and Silver, on Tuesday 27 September 2011. An icon of the Art Deco movement, the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express train [Read More]
The auctions – slated for Sept. 15, Sept. 23-25 and Oct. 21-23 – will be held in Oceanside, N.Y. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Most auction houses can brag about having maybe one three-day sale per year, if that, but Philip Weiss Auctions has two such events planned for back-to-back months — on Sept. [Read More]
The event will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1034 Gateway Blvd. (Ste. 106) in Boynton Beach. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Hundreds of quality lots of fine porcelain, original artwork and wonderful estate jewelry will cross the block in a multi-estate sale planned for Saturday, Aug. 27, by Elite Decorative Arts, [Read More]