Spectrum Wine Auctions’ Second Anniversary Auction will take place December 3 & 4 at 11:00 a.m. HKT at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel. All registered bidders are invited to celebrate the auction with a Champagne brunch featuring pours of Krug and Cristal, starting promptly at 11:00 a.m. HKT both days. The [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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A new world auction record for a work on paper by Henry Moore was set by Bonhams on 16th November in the 20th Century British and Irish Art sale. Entitled Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child, the work sold for £634,850, after much enthusiastic bidding. Executed in 1941, the work had only [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces the sale of an Unknown Manuscript Notebook by celebrated Bengali poet and artist, Rabindranath Tagore on 13 December 2011 in New York. Dating to the fall of 1928, the notebook contains twelve poems and lyrics for twelve songs in Bengali, some being heavily amended drafts of subsequently published works. Tagore [Read More]
An intimate portrait of Julia Jackson by British photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), one of the highlights of Bonhams Photographs Sale, realised an impressive £57,250 today (17 November) at the auction house’s New Bond Street saleroom. One of around fifty known portraits by Cameron of her niece, the earliest dating from [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in America, will hold an exciting auction of Finest and Rarest wines on December 10th at award-winning restaurant TRU, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The impressive sale will feature U.S. private cellars and includes The [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of Latin American Art in New York brought a total of $16,975,750, meeting pre-sale expectations (est. $15.2/20.7 million).* The highlight of the evening was Watermelon Slices by Rufino Tamayo, which exceeded the high estimate to fetch $2,210,500; the work was sold by The Museum of Modern Art, New York to [Read More]
There are watches and there are Rolex watches. The world famous Swiss manufacturer of high quality luxury watches was founded in 1905 under the name ‘Wilsdorf and Davis’ by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis. The trade name ‘Rolex’ came to fruition around 1908 and the rest is history. A long line of [Read More]
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]
“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]
The Dec. 3 sale will include personal jewelry, stage apparel and mementos. NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. – Before Elton John, Madonna or Lady Gaga dominated the world stage with their outrageous costumes and over-the-top performances, there was Liberace – a charismatic showman whose onstage presence combined the glitz of Las Vegas with a [Read More]
The Detroit Tigers uniform worn by Hall of Fame outfielder Ty Cobb during the 1922 season sold for $358,500 on Nov. 11 in Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Sports Collectibles Signature® Auction, notching the fourth six-figure price commanded by the category for a game worn jersey in 2011. A rare “Shoeless Joe” Jackson signed [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale 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]