Noel Barrett Nov. 18-19 auction realized $1,187,000 (all prices quoted inclusive of 15% buyer’s premium), with Saturday’s sales exceeding the session’s total high estimate by a whopping 40%. Watchmaker’s trade sign of cast and sheet metal, 32 inches tall by 26 inches wide, $11,500. Noel Barrett Auctions image Friday’s 386-lot toy session [Read More]
Daily Archives: December 23, 2011
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Orson Welles’ Academy Award for Citizen Kane was sold by Nate D. Sanders for $861,542, which includes the buyer’s premium. Welles received this Award for Best Original Screenplay, which was, incredibly, the only Oscar that either Citizen Kane or Orson Welles received. In an exciting auction that included David Copperfield and bidders [Read More]
A group of fine Chinese furniture, formerly in the Collection of Eleanor Majors Carlisle – a pillar of San Francisco society at the turn of the 19th century, took the spotlight at Bonhams more than $12.8-million auction of Fine Asian Works of Art held December 20-21. The two-day sale offered up 900 [Read More]
The finest collection of vintage baseball-themed board and arcade games ever assembled, The Dr. Mark W. Cooper Collection, is currently being offered in its entirety via Private Treaty sale from Heritage Auctions. “The best-known documentation of baseball’s rich history comes in the form of the rare early cardboard that bears the faces [Read More]
Quentin Blake, Angela de la Cruz, Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, Rankin, Gerald Scarfe, Bob & Roberta Smith and Gavin Turk are amongst the high-profile artists contributing self portraits to the Face Britain project. As well as these artists, a wide range of well known faces from the worlds of film, TV, theatre, [Read More]
The event will be held in the firm’s showroom, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, New York (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A huge two-day, three-session multi-estate sale featuring hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market lots of original artwork, fine porcelain, Hollywood memorabilia, movie posters, pop culture and rock ‘n’ roll items and more will [Read More]
Achieves Highest Sell-Through Rate in the Industry (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart capped off another highly successful year with a remarkably strong auction in Chicago on December 10th, realizing $4,263,270 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $3,033,500- $4,534,540. One of the featured consignments, A Selection of Remarkable Burgundy from an East [Read More]