Christie’s International has launched its newly upgraded mobile applications, enhancing the Christie’s digital experience for a global audience of mobile device users. Christie’s also announces that the newly upgraded app is now available for use on the Android. All users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), will enjoy a [Read More]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
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Amp Used for Beatles Revolver and Sgt. Pepper Recording Sessions A rare Vox UL730 amplifier and cabinet used for the Beatles ‘Revolver’ and ‘Sgt. Pepper’ recording sessions will be one of the highlights of the Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Thursday 15th December 2011 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London. The amp, which has only [Read More]
Gary Nader announces his next Latin American, Modern and Contemporary Art Auction. The Auction artworks will be on display from Thursday, November 17th, 2011. The Auction will take place on Thursday, December 1st, 2011 during the celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. Full color printed and online catalogues will be available. [Read More]
Bonhams is offering a 1912 Lanchester 38hp State Limousine, which was specially made for the powerful and wealthy Maharajah of Rewa in May 1912, as part of its December Sale at Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge on Thursday 1 December. Featuring a removable limousine top and driver’s canopy, so the car could be used [Read More]
Bonhams announce the Scottsdale Sale of Exceptional Motorcars on January 19th, 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. For its first-ever automotive sale during the famous Scottsdale Car Week, Bonhams has teamed up with the exclusive AAA Four Diamond Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in the heart of Scottsdale, near Phoenix. Highlights of the sale [Read More]
The lens, just the fourth one known, was the top lot of the nearly 500 items that changed hands. (RAYMOND, Ill.) – A Richfield Aviation Gasoline 15-inch single lens in a high-profile metal globe body, just the fourth such lens known and rated 9 out of 10 for condition, sold for $15,400 [Read More]
A beautiful painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard by Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851) will be on view at Bonhams Leeds office, on Friday 2nd, Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th December prior to its sale as part of the 19th Century Paintings sale on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond [Read More]
A set of original 1960s autographed pencil portraits of early US astronauts and a 17th-century map of Virginia with quaint spellings of geographic locations are among the highlights of Waverly Auctions’ Dec. 8 sale in suburban Washington, D.C. The 440-lot event features fine and rare books, autographs and manuscripts, maps and atlases. [Read More]
Swann Galleries New York auction of Important Photobooks & Photographs on Thursday, December 13 features beautiful and poignant images and books ranging from the earliest photographs to works by artists living and working today. Edwin Hale Lincoln, Wild Flowers of New England Photographed From Nature, 400 photographic plates in 8 volumes, 1910-14. [Read More]
Tiancheng International Auctioneer Limited have auctioned a Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant by Auguste Rodin for 8,325,825 U.S. in Hong Kong. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant , bronze, estimate upon request. Inscribed with the signature Auguste Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis RUDIER. Fondeur. PARIS H: [Read More]
At a time of serious economic instability around the world, the art market is often vulnerable to the wider financial pressures. Bonhams’ auctions of Chinese art in Hong Kong on November 28 sent a strong message that the market for top-quality Chinese objects and paintings remains stable, and fine-quality objects presented with [Read More]
Bonhams Hong Kong set a new outright world record for a Chinese snuff bottle on 28 November 2011, at the auction of the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part IV at the Island Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong. The tiny, yet exquisite, ‘famille-rose’ enamelled glass ‘European-subject’ snuff bottle made in the Imperial [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Important Russian Art evening auction brought £5,597,000/$8,657,999 (est. £5,755,000-8,415,000). The sale achieved sellthrough rates of 66.7% by lot and 74.6% by value, and established two new artist records for Alexander Golovin and Pavel Kovalevsky. Petr Konchalovsky, Tatar Still Life, 1916, sold for £914,850/$1,415,181. Photo: Sotheby’s. The top-selling lot of this [Read More]
On 13 December 2011 Sotheby’s New York is to offer the founding partnership agreement of the Apple Computer Company – the firm that revolutionized technology, business, personal computing and the world. The 1976 document, which once belonged to Ronald G. Wayne, one of Apple’s founders along with Steven P. Jobs and Stephen [Read More]
An Intense Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring, custom-made by Underwood’s, is expected to bring in excess of $100,000 when it comes to auction on Dec. 5 as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions’ Fine Jewelry Signature(r) Auction, being held at the company’s Design District Annex at 1518 Slocum Street. 10 carat [Read More]
Diamonds, lustrous pearls and spectacular Victorian cameos join a select array of Swiss watches and other high-quality estate jewelry in a 300-lot sale to be held Wednesday, Dec. 7 at Quinn’s. The family-owned auction house that serves the Washington, D.C. and Mid-Atlantic region has built a strong following for its annual pre-Christmas [Read More]
A Shreve & Co. 14K Gold Santa Anita Racing Trophy, presented to the legendary sprint horse Bric a Bac after his dramatic win in the 1945 San Juan Capistrano Handicap, the first race run at the famed racetrack after World War II, is expected to bring $30,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ [Read More]
A unique motorcycle created for the 2011 Great Escape 2 – a charity motorcycle ride across Europe to commemorate the 50 RAF officers who met their demise after the so-called ‘Great Escape’ from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in March 1944 – is to be sold in Bonhams [Read More]