A Blockbuster Auction in Chicago Launches Fall Season (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart launched its Fall season with great aplomb on Saturday, September 17th in Chicago, selling 100% of the lots offered and achieving $5.3 million, well above the pre-auction estimate of $3,430,990 to $5,139,310. There was a full house of [Read More]
Daily Archives: September 20, 2011
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A developer’s dream up for online auction for pennies on the dollar The Lake County Tax Collector, Sandra Shaul, announced today that her office will hold an online tax sale auction for more than 100 prime lakefront acres in Lake County, CA. The online real estate auction will take place October 12- [Read More]
Christie’s will offer 14 works of art from a Private Collection at international auctions in London and New York in November 2011. Including an impressive selection of 20th century Irish art, the selection of works from a Private Collector are being offered on instruction of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) in [Read More]
One of the iconic images of the Swinging Sixties by the artist Richard Hamilton, who died recently, is for sale at Bonhams Print Sale in London on 29 November. ‘Release’ shows Mick Jagger and Hamilton’s art dealer Robert Fraser handcuffed together in the back of a police car shielding their faces from [Read More]
Swann Galleries’ autumn auction of African-American Fine Art on October 6 features many exciting discoveries—significant works by important artists that were previously unrecorded or never exhibited. The earliest piece in the sale is one of these recent findings, an Untitled (Landscape) oil on canvas painting by Robert S. Duncanson. This large example [Read More]
Bonhams Scotland is to establish two new departments at its Edinburgh flagship Headquarters in Queen Street. Asian Art and Books will join Paintings, Jewellery, Silver, Furniture, Clocks and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass, Sporting, Whisky and Arms and Armour bringing the number of specialist departments to ten. The setting up [Read More]
The same bottle in an amber coloration would probably sell for $1,800, as color is everything. (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – A Wormser Brothers barrel bitters bottle, made between 1867 and 1871 and quite possibly the only green example in existence (most are amber in color), soared to $18,480 in an Internet and catalog [Read More]