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]
Daily Archives: November 29, 2011
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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]