An important Surrealist-inspired painting by Ed Ruscha is among the many highlights to be offered in Christie’s sale of Post War and Contemporary Art at Rockefeller Center on November 8. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, painted in 1965, is estimated to fetch $3 to $4 million. Strange Catch for a [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Dwight Stevens acquired the building that formerly housed the Flomaton Auction Company. (FLOMATON, Ala.) – Stevens Auction Company – already an auction powerhouse in the Southeast – is about to expand its presence in the region, having recently acquired the building in Flomaton that previously housed Flomaton Antique Auction, Inc. Stevens will [Read More]
A historic 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle is expected to establish a new world record* for a motorcycle sold at auction when it crosses the podium at Auctions America by RM’s debut Last Vegas sale, January 12 – 14, 2012. The multi-day auction will feature an impressive docket of over 400 collector motorcycles. [Read More]
Sotheby’s Victorian & Edwardian art sale on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 will include a collection of six works by Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) which come to the market from a Private Collection. With a combined pre-estimate low estimate of just over £200,000, the group comprises oils, a sculpture and a watercolour. Although [Read More]
The museum-quality archive was the top earner of the nearly 1,350 lots that changed hands. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A historically significant and museum-quality archive of material pertaining to the doomed ocean liner the HMS Titanic — consigned by direct descendants of a couple that were rescued when the ship went down the [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer for auction on November 9, a prestigious and refined collection of 18th century books that is remarkable in terms of content, the quality of its illustrations, and the elegant morocco bindings which constitute a veritable ‘leitmotif’ of the ensemble. The Library was assembled in the 1950s and ’60s by [Read More]
Christie’s will mark another significant milestone in the auctions of Asian 20th century & contemporary art. Previously sold in a separate category, Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art will be integrated into the Asian 20th century & contemporary art sale, enjoying a new level of international exposure when placed alongside the art [Read More]
The original 1942 Jerry Robinson artwork from Detective Comics #67, one of the earliest Batman covers still known to exist – consigned by the legendary Golden Age artist himself – is being offered for the very first time at auction and is expected to bring $300,000+ when it comes across the block [Read More]
The catalog may be viewed online, at www.ConverseClocks.com, and via LiveAuctioneers.com. (STRAFFORD, Pa.) – More than 400 quality lots of merchandise, drawn from prominent estates and collections and in a wide array of categories, will be sold in an Internet-only auction that has already gone online and will conclude with live bidding [Read More]
A very rare and important George II English wooden doll, which has belonged to the same family for over two centuries, is to be sold by Bonhams, as part of its Fine Toys, Dolls and Lead Soldiers Sale on 15 November 2011. Named Marianna after its first owner, it has attracted a [Read More]
Sotheby’s auctioneers have announced the sale in Paris on November 9 of an exceptional Serge Gainsbourg group of autograph songs, notes, photographs and memorabilia. Author, composer, performer, artist, film-maker, photographer… Serge Gainsbourg (1928-91) left behind him a multi-faceted œuvre. With his phenomenal creative versatility, decadent poetry and musical genius, Gainsbourg earned a [Read More]
Two Joseph Heller letters reminiscing on his epic war novel “Catch-22” will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday November 8, 2011 auction commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark war book. Heller wrote to Professor James Nagel of Northeastern University on March 13, 1974 regarding “Catch-22” and his personal war experiences. [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 November 2011, will be led by masterpieces by Clyfford Still, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko, among others. Four paintings by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still come from the Estate of Patricia Still and are being sold by the City [Read More]
Christie’s presents an important single-owner collection of exceptional Chinese works of art from a renowned European connoisseur, to be offered on 30 November in Hong Kong This outstanding collection of fifteen rare works in jade, ivory and rhinoceros horn was put together over the past 50 years with a focus on the [Read More]
Two lavishly illustrated inventories of jewellery belonging to Ksenia Aleksandrovna, the Grand Duchess of Russia, are highlights of the Russian Sale, taking place on the 30th November 2011 at Bonhams, New Bond Street. As the daughter of Tsar Aleksander III and sister of Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Ksenia led a privileged life [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces that it will offer men’s accessories and watches from the collection of the late John Traina this December in New York. Mr. Traina was a shipping executive, vintner, noted collector, author and a mainstay of San Francisco society, legendary for his great style and warm personality. Sotheby’s will offer 92 [Read More]
Swann Galleries’ annual auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters on Friday, November 11 offers many seldom-seen images from around the world, and marks the first time several of them have come to auction. Frederick C. Herrick, London’s Underground / Nightly Carnival, 1924. Estimate: $3,000 to $4,000. A strong selection of British [Read More]
Howard Chandler Christy’s Nymphs in Summer sells for $179,250, sets record for artist; Alberto Vargas, Jessie Willcox-Smith, Edward Runci all perform well in Oct. 22 New York auction Gil Elvgren remains the unchallenged champion of American Pin-Up Art, as evidenced by the $191,200 price realized for his 1956 Fire Belle (Always Ready), [Read More]