A simply magnificent 1892 South African Republic gold Proof Pond 1892, PR65 NGC – the best of just 10 like pieces known to have been minted – is expected to bring $300,000+ as one of the principal highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Jan. 2-3, 2012 World & Ancient Coins Signature® Auction, an official [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
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Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides achieved a sensational result of € 3.500.000* in Ketterer Kunst’s auction of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Thus the work did not only set a new world record* for a painting by the artist, it is also the most expensive work sold in an auction [Read More]
An 1841 Sovereign is set to make a new world record when it is sold in the Medals, Banknotes and Coins sale on Wednesday 14th December at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Estimated to sell for £8,000- 10,000, the coin depicts Queen Victoria, in relief, and has been virtually uncirculated. It is considered one of [Read More]
Bonhams announce that Mark Garside and Martin Heckscher have joined the Collectors’ Motorcycle Department as consultants. Mark will be a consultant for Lancashire and Cumbria (alongside Alan Whitehead) while Martin will cover Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Ben Walker, Head of Motorcycles, comments, “Martin and Mark will bring a huge amount of knowledge, [Read More]
‘Tin Miners’, a fine example of Harold Harvey’s works depicting the industrial side of Cornwall, is to be offered for auction in the 19th Century Paintings sale on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. It has a pre-sale estimate of £20,000-30,000. Harold Harvey (1874-1941) was born in Penzance [Read More]
Bonhams announced a sales total of $1.36 million at its December 6 Antique Arms, Armor & Modern Sporting Guns auction in San Francisco. Highlighting the auction was a historic, Paris-made Confederate artillery officer’s frock coat of Lt. Col. Richard Snowden Andrews that sold for $64,350 (est. $40,000-60,000), along with a number of [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture on 26 January 2012 will feature three paintings from the estate of Lady Forte, whose husband Charles Forte founded the global hotel and restaurant group Trusthouse Forte. The group comprises: Venice, A View of the Churches of the Redentore and San [Read More]
Sotheby’s Important Tiffany sale, on 15 December 2011, will be highlighted by A Highly Important Three-Panel “Magnolia” Window, circa 1910 (est. $400/600,000*). Tiffany Studios, A Highly Important Three-Panel “Magnolia” Window (detail). Circa 1910. Est. $400/600,000. Photo: Sotheby’s. As Julie L. Sloan writes in her catalogue essay, “this brilliantly colored, small jewel of [Read More]
Sotheby’s Important 20th Century Design on 15 December 2011 will offer a strong selection of works across a diverse range of styles, featuring important pieces from the Arts & Crafts movement, European and American Modernism, and Postwar and Contemporary Design. The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris Evening Auction of Contemporary Art soared above estimate to bring a total of €11, 282,250/$ 15,098,358 (est. € 6,600,000- 9,370,000/ $ 8,832,384 / 12,539,309). There was competitive bidding throughout; all of the lots found buyers and three-quarters of the lots sold above their high estimates. Commenting on his first evening [Read More]
Bonhams on December 8, achieved a sale total of $1.58 million, which include a world record that was surpassed and achieved by a stunning Patek Philippe chronograph wristwatch ref:5020P. Patek Philippe chronograph wristwatch Taking the top honors of the sale was the world record-breaking Patek Philippe chronograph ref:5020P. The top lot of [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art realised a total of €14,437,900/$19,332,204 (Estimate €11,184,000-15,705,000/$14,975,264-21,028,838). The sale established sell-through rates of 74% by lot and 85.7% by value. The sale was highlighted by strong prices achieved by surrealist works and an auction record was set for a watercolour by Man Ray. [Read More]
Christie’s Victorian & British Impressionist Art sale will offer 90 paintings and works on paper at auction on 15 December 2011, by a variety of artists ranging from the Pre-Raphaelites to the British Impressionists, including Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Cowper, Munnings, Clausen and de Glehn, for an overall estimate in excess of £4.5 [Read More]
Bonhams San Francisco Native American Art auction held on December 5 took more than $2.012 million. Leading the auction was a rare Cheyenne quilled shirt, circa 1830-1840 from The Bones Collection, that is one of the earliest examples known to exist today. It sold for $338,500 against its pre-sale estimate of $300,000-500,000. [Read More]
Sotheby’s winter sale of Antiquities brought a total of $30,918,375, soaring past the $5/7.6 million estimate, with 84% of the lots sold.* The sale was led by A Marble Group of Leda and the Swan, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D which sold for $19,122,500 (est. $2/3 million). The sculpture was sought [Read More]
On December 2nd, Karen Walsh, the Chapter 7 Trustee appointed in the Bobby Rowe Energy, Inc. and Stephen Rowe Oil Properties, LLC bankruptcy cases, entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Sam Mayes, Jr. for the sale of four oil and gas leases in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The sales price is $151,787.93. [Read More]
The Bonhams 20th Century Decorative Arts auction on December 14 will feature a wide range of exciting works from periods such as Art Nouveau, Post War Design and the Contemporary Studio Craft movements. The Art Deco period is well represented by Clara, a superb figure by Demetre H. Chiparus, circa 1925 (pre-sale [Read More]
An early 19th century watercolour showing two boys playing golf on the Old Links of Musselburgh, where the game has been played continuously for 550 years, made £85,250 at Bonhams 19th and 20th Century Pictures and Prints sale in Edinburgh on 8 December. It had been estimated at between £20,000-30,000. William Douglas [Read More]