The auction will be held in the firm’s showroom, located at 1015 Julia Street in New Orleans. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – Over 1,100 lots of mostly fresh-to-the-market items – culled from prominent local estates and collections and spanning a wide variety of categories – will be sold on Saturday, Dec. 3, by [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 17, 2011
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“It is a real sensation for the German art market. Works of such a remarkable nature are usually auctioned in London and New York”, said Robert Ketterer about Hermann Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides, which will be called up in the Munich auction on 10 December. In general, the [Read More]
Boston, Mass – Skinner, Inc, New England’s only full service auction house, will host a sale of fine jewelry at their Boston gallery on December 6th, 2011. Sale highlights feature a number of beautiful art deco pieces including the cover lot: a Chaumet emerald, ruby and diamond pendant brooch estimated to sell [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kongwill present Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on Wednesday, 30 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. The sale, estimated in excess of HK$600 million /US$80 million, brings together over 400 works of exceptional quality and with excellent provenance, as well as special collection 15 exceptional [Read More]
United Country Bonnette Auction Company is to auction 8,029 acres in Hackberry, La on Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 1pm CST. Located at 900 Shell Western Drive in Hackberry, one mile North of Sabine refuge, bordering Black Lake to the West and one half mile South of the intercoastal waterways in Cameron [Read More]
Bonhams, announce the company’s ninth offering of exceptional writing instruments in the US on December 6, 2011. The auction contains more than 200 lots and offers a diverse selection of excellent fountain pens from all of the top makers, including a Dupont James Bond limited edition set inspired by 007’s firearm of [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Evening and Day Sales of Modern and Post-War British Art concluded with a combined total of £8.5/$13.5 million. The top lot of the Evening Sale was L.S. Lowry’s Railway Platform of 1953 which sold for £1.1/$1.8 million (est. £1-1.5 million, further details on the painting below). A highlight of the [Read More]
Christie’s Latin American Evening Sale on November 15 achieved $15,333,750/ £9,660,263/ € 11,346,975 and was 83% sold by value and 76% sold by lot. Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932), Dancers, bronze with dark brown patina, executed in 2007. Estimate: $1,500,000 – 2,000,000, Price Realized: $1,762,500. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2011. The Head [Read More]