Two trial proofs for Andy Warhol’s iconic image of a dollar sign are for sale at Bonhams Print sale on 29 November in London. The signed prints, estimated at between £15,000- 20,000, date from 1982 – just five years before the artist untimely death – and are based on paintings executed the [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 15, 2011
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Sotheby’s London announce its sale of Continental Books and Musical Manuscripts will include rare and important manuscripts by Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Benjamin Britten. Comprised of 181 lots, the sale on Wednesday 30th November 2011 is estimated to fetch in excess of £2 million. The auction will be headlined by [Read More]
Bonhams will hold its winter auction of Natural History on December 11, 2011. The sale will feature a diverse group of high quality and distinctive mineral specimens, gold nuggets, lapidary works of art and gemstones, as well as exceptional examples of fossils, unusual jewelry and “phenomenal gems.” The winter auction will also [Read More]
The naval jacket worn by James Bond author, Ian Fleming, throughout World War II, when the character of ‘007’ was first taking shape in his mind, is to be auctioned at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs sale in London on November 22. For a serving officer in Naval Intelligence such [Read More]
Museum quality paintings by Vasilii Polenov, Jewellery albums belonging to Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna and stunning examples of Fabergé, offer much to excite buyers at the Bonhams Russian Sale, taking place on November 30th in New Bond Street, London. Following a successful and well-attended two-week exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, [Read More]
Sotheby’s auction of European Sculpture and Works of Art: Medieval to Modern on Tuesday, 6 December 2011 will showcase 800 extraordinary years of artworks that form a continuous history from the twelfth century through to the mid-twentieth century. The auction comprises medieval, Old Master, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century sculpture and works [Read More]
The date of the final semi-annual action of the year held by Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC, a firm specializing in Russian fine and decorative arts has been set for 10 am, November 19, 2011. Russian + International Art & Antiques will be the fourth auction to take place at the house’s new [Read More]
Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries will present Liberace The Auction on December 3, 2011 featuring the magnificent jewelry and personal posessions of the famed pianist! ‘Liberace The Auction’ will be held on Saturday, Dec. 3, commencing at 3 p.m. Eastern Time. All forms of bidding will be available, including live at the auction venue, [Read More]
Discovered only weeks ago, in the late summer of 2011 in Garfield County, Mont., is one of the largest T. rex teeth ever found that will be offered by Bonhams at its December 11 Natural History auction. Estimated to bring $25,000–30,000, the magnificent piece has been meticulously prepared. Thomas Lindgren, Co-Consulting Director [Read More]