Bonhams announce the sale of two extremely rare gold coins in its Coins & Medals auction on December 16, 2011. The first rare coin offered is the finest and only second-known example of a Chang Tso-Lin 50 Yuan gold piece (L&M-1031). It has been consigned for sale by the direct descendants of [Read More]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
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Sotheby’s auctioneers has announced the appointment of Marc Michel-Amadry as Managing Director of Sotheby’s Switzerland. Mr Michel-Amadry will divide his time between Sotheby’s Zurich and Geneva and will strengthen Sotheby’s existing team in Switzerland with his international experience in the luxury sector and strong record of general management across Switzerland. The re-establishment [Read More]
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) announced today that they will be offering at auction 356 lots in the all-inclusive Horseshoe Bay community. This is Phase 2 of the major auction by order of the secured lender to liquidate over 300 prime homesites. Of the 356 total lots, 210 will be offered without reserve. [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York sale of Classical Chinese Paintings, the company’s first dedicated sale in this field for more than a decade, realized the superb total of $6,467,000 (est. $2.6/3.7 million). The auction, which saw more than 87% of the sold lots achieve sums in excess of their pre-sale estimates, established a strong [Read More]
Spectrum Wine Auctions’ Autumn 2011 Rare Wine Auction will take place September 24 & 25 at 11:00 a.m. HKT at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel. The entire two-day event features a total of 1,606 lots of rare and collectible wines, and carries a pre-sale estimate of nearly US $6 million (HK [Read More]
On Saturday, October 1st and Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at noon, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its third auction of 20th C. Design for the year. Included among the more than 950 lots are rare vessels and art works descended from Susan Frackelton’s family; a fine and extensive collection [Read More]
Bonhams auctioneers is to join forces with the Pakistan educational charity, Pakistan Rising, to help raise much needed funds for primary schools in Pakistan. Ten of Pakistan’s finest artists have donated work for the auction which takes place at 6.45pm on 3 October at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. Pakistan Rising [Read More]
A stunning art deco diamond wristwatch by Cartier circa 1935 that belonged to Eleonora Sears, the great, great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, will be offered in the Fine Jewellery sale, taking place at Bonhams London on the 21st September. The strap consists of baguette and brilliant cut diamonds and is estimated to [Read More]
Dragon entwined Imperial ceramics, jade animals and a spectacular lamp made of buffalo horn, offer much to excite buyers at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art Sale on November 10th at New Bond Street, London. An object that speaks loudly of Chinese craftsmanship features numerous dragons. An Imperial enamelled and blue ‘nine-dragon’ vase bearing [Read More]
On September 24th, Christie’s New York will offer wine collectors a rare opportunity to bid for some of these “crown jewels,” as the auction house presents a special selection of legendary bottles direct from the private cellar of Inglenook owner Francis Ford Coppola, including two bottles of the legendary 1941 vintage. This [Read More]
Bonhams has announced a sale of Fine Prints, October 25, 2011 in San Francisco, and simulcast to Los Angeles, the auction will feature a wide range of lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and screenprints spanning myriad centuries. The sale is led by a brightly-colored lithograph of “Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant,” 1892, by French Post Impressionist [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York has announced it will auction The Collection of Allan Stone Volume III, on 23 September 2011. The sale of property from the renowned New York dealer follows two exceptionally successful auctions in May 2011. Just as in those sales, this offering is made up of outstanding examples by the [Read More]
Freeman’s auctioneers have achieved another extraordinary success when a ‘double dragon’ white jade seal realized over $3.5 million, making it the highest selling lot in the biannual Fine & Decorative Asian Arts auction. The Qing Dynasty seal was sold to a bidder in the room by auctioneer and head of Asian Arts [Read More]
A selection of personal handwritten letters by James Dean, which have never been offered for sale before, are to be sold at Christie’s auction of Popular Culture: Film and Entertainment Memorabilia in South Kensington on 23 November 2011. The letters are each addressed to Dean’s on-off girlfriend of two years, Barbara Glenn. [Read More]
A set of the very earliest photographs of Burma taken by the British Victorian photographer, Linnaeus Tripe, are for sale at the India and Beyond: Travel and Photography sale at Bonhams in London on 4 October. This very scarce volume is estimated at £70,000 – 90,000. Linnaeus Tripe was a British army [Read More]
Ketterer Kunst in Munich has announced the sale of German Avant-Garde paintings on 28 October. Max Schwimmer (1895 Leipzig – 1960 Leipzig), Herbstlandschaft, 1920. Watercolor and charcoal drawing This year’s offering focuses on works made from around 1900 up into the late 1930s. It will be lead by Hans Michaelson’s oil painting [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announce that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday, October 13, 2011, will be headlined by Boy’s Head of 1952 by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) depicting Charlie Lumley, one of Freud’s most immediately- recognisable subjects from this seminal early period in his oeuvre. This oil on canvas transmits a remarkable psychological [Read More]
Auctioneer, television appraiser and expert, Phil Weiss, will auction to the highest bidder a collection of over 500 lots of Disneyana art and memorabilia, Comic books and Comic art on Sunday Sept. 25 beginning at 10:00 am ET at his gallery in Oceanside NY. Featuring “The Adirondack Collection” of Comic Art, with [Read More]