A previously unknown portrait by the Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660) will be the highlight of the Old Master Paintings auction on Wednesday 7th December 2011 at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. The work is a portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black tunic and white golilla collar and […]
Sotheby’s Victorian & Edwardian art sale on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 will be headlined by Waiting to Cross by Albert Moore (1841-1893). Estimated at £300,000-500,000, the painting was the artist’s only contribution to the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition of 1888. It comes to auction following the success of the exhibition The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic […]
More than 200 lots of fine and decorative arts from private collections and estates will be offered at John Moran Auctioneers’ November 15th Antiques and Fine Art Auction. Featuring an outstanding group of 20th century bronzes and metalware, the sale offers a rarely seen survey of fine examples of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and abstract […]
Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School will host their inaugural fine art benefit auction on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 from 6:30-9:30pm at the Vincent Astor Gallery in Lincoln Center’s Library of Performing Arts. This landmark event will honor artist Wolf Kahn and includes a cocktail reception, exhibition and auction of almost 100 works to […]
When Roland Auction received 20th Century furniture by Tobia and Afra Scarpa, whose work can be seen at MoMA, abstract steel sculptures by Magpantay and fine 19th Century figurative bronzes by Jean-Paul Aube and August Peiffer for its November 12 auction, the words “high style” rippled through the gallery. According to Robert Roland, co-founder, naming […]
RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, concluded its 2011 sales calendar on a high note in London on Wednesday (26th October), posting over £13.3 million* ($21,413,000) in total sales with a solid 79% of all lots sold. 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB ‘Tour de France’ Berlinetta sold for $3,606,400. […]
An important Surrealist-inspired painting by Ed Ruscha is among the many highlights to be offered in Christie’s sale of Post War and Contemporary Art at Rockefeller Center on November 8. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, painted in 1965, is estimated to fetch $3 to $4 million. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish […]
Dwight Stevens acquired the building that formerly housed the Flomaton Auction Company. (FLOMATON, Ala.) – Stevens Auction Company – already an auction powerhouse in the Southeast – is about to expand its presence in the region, having recently acquired the building in Flomaton that previously housed Flomaton Antique Auction, Inc. Stevens will conduct an inaugural […]
A historic 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle is expected to establish a new world record* for a motorcycle sold at auction when it crosses the podium at Auctions America by RM’s debut Last Vegas sale, January 12 – 14, 2012. The multi-day auction will feature an impressive docket of over 400 collector motorcycles. The second of […]
Sotheby’s Victorian & Edwardian art sale on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 will include a collection of six works by Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) which come to the market from a Private Collection. With a combined pre-estimate low estimate of just over £200,000, the group comprises oils, a sculpture and a watercolour. Although Tuke was born […]
The museum-quality archive was the top earner of the nearly 1,350 lots that changed hands. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A historically significant and museum-quality archive of material pertaining to the doomed ocean liner the HMS Titanic — consigned by direct descendants of a couple that were rescued when the ship went down the morning of April […]
Sotheby’s will offer for auction on November 9, a prestigious and refined collection of 18th century books that is remarkable in terms of content, the quality of its illustrations, and the elegant morocco bindings which constitute a veritable ‘leitmotif’ of the ensemble. The Library was assembled in the 1950s and ’60s by a captain of […]
