A first year production 1855 “Root Model” Sidehammer Colt Revolver in the original box realized $2,300 and a World War II Flight Jacket with “Flying Dutchmen” artwork saw $3,100 in Cordier Auctions & Appraisals quarterly Firearms & Military Sale on September 23. The sale featured 300 plus lots in categories spanning Antique [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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A unique set of twelve original Japanese Namiki pens from the Alfred Dunhill Archive are to be sold at Bonhams Distinguished Design sale in London on 30 November. The set is estimated at £100,000-150,000. The barrels of the pens date from the 1920s when the techniques which make dunhill-Namiki pens so special [Read More]
Cordier Auctions & Appraisals will be holding their Two Day Fall Antique & Fine Art auction in their new facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on November 5 and 6. The 12,000 square foot facility, located at 1500 Paxton Street, will house the company’s salesroom, offices and storage facility. The early 20th century brick [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will hold a sale, on 8 & 9 December 2011, dedicated to furniture and decorative arts from the collection of Dodie Rosekrans, a figure who was known internationally for her considerable charitable work, trendsetting style and patronage of the arts. Collection of Dodie Rosekrans Photo: Sotheby’s. Property from the [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Russian Art brought $17,636,500, with five works selling for more than $1 million and three works exceeding $3 million. Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, Street in Moscow, 1909, titled, numbered and inscribed in Cyrillic (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 25 1/2 by 31 in., 65 by 79 [Read More]
Koller Auctions will host several events in Geneva. Between 12 and 14 November at the Hotel de La Paix, this, the largest auction house in Switzerland, will present the top lots for its December auction to take place in Zurich. On 18 November the Koller Geneva auction will take place at the [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. will host its fall auction of Fine Wines on November 8th at 4 p.m. in its Boston gallery at 63 Park Plaza. The sale, realized through a partnership with Lower Falls Wine Company of Newton, MA, will offer 775 lots of fine vintage Bordeaux, a coveted allotment of recent vintage [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York, Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a strong $199,804,500, well within the overall pre-sale estimate of $167.6/229.9 million and eclipsing the total for the same sale in May 2011. The auction was 81.4% sold by lot, and saw a total of 39 works sell for over $1 million. [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of European Paintings on Tuesday, 22 November, 2011 will bring together some 242 works comprising Spanish Painting, The Scandinavian Sale, The Greek Sale and German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, and encompasses prime works by Sorolla, Hammershøi, Peterssen, Egger-Lienz, Moralis, Ralli and Sykora. The auction is estimated to bring in [Read More]
Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved $140,773,500 (£88,687,305/ €102,764,655), with three works of art selling above the $10 million mark. Despite spots of selective bidding throughout the sale, Surrealist works and modern sculpture performed well overall, and buyers competed aggressively for rare works and those offered fresh to the market [Read More]
The one-day fall sale will be held in Matheson’s spacious gallery facility, in Melbourne, Florida. (MELBOURNE, Fla.) – The property of a prominent South Florida collector, plus the antique and modern furnishings from a Ritz-Carlton penthouse in Sarasota, will be sold Sat., Nov. 26, at 11 a.m. (EST), by Matheson’s AA Auctions, [Read More]
The sale will be held in the firm’s spacious gallery at Quantum Town Center in Boynton Beach. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Nearly 600 lots of top-quality Chinese carvings and works of art will be sold at auction Saturday, Nov. 19, by Elite Decorative Arts, in the firm’s spacious gallery located at the [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announces the sale of a remarkable group of works by British artists on behalf of The Dartington Hall Trust, to be sold as part of Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 16th November 2011. The works, comprising paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by artists including Ben [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong sale of Important Watches of 30 November will offer over 550 rare timepieces valued in excess of HK$85 million/US$11 million. This vast selection features the world’s leading makers, with haute horology examples showcasing the best of fine watchmaking over the last four centuries. In addition to a wonderful selection [Read More]
Christie’s announces it has been selected to present the sale of Property from the Collection of John W. Kluge Sold to Benefit Columbia University, a large and wide-ranging collection of artwork, furniture and decorative arts that will be offered for sale in several major auctions, starting with four important sculptures by Henry [Read More]
Swann Galleries’ auction of Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School on Thursday, October 27 offered approximately 140 prints and other works by Stanley William Hayter and the artists he taught and inspired through his work at the Paris Atelier, and later in New York. Jackson Pollock’s Untitled drypoint and [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers are enjoying a record Autumn so far with some major collections being sold. September saw the Longdon House sale together with many other large estates and strong results saw the old single auction total, which has stood for 15 years, smashed! This was quickly followed with the exciting single [Read More]
The expected top lot is a gilt bronze work by the sculptor Raoul Larche (est. $20,000-$30,000). (SCHODACK, N.Y.) – Coming on the heels of a successful estate sale on Oct. 29, at which a massive single-owner collection in a variety of categories was sold to a packed house of bidders, Finney’s Auction [Read More]