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]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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2011 saw a series of art world records broken at Bonhams salerooms round the world. These include: Chinese Art Bonhams Hong Kong set a new outright world record for a Chinese snuff bottle on 28 November 2011, at the auction of the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part IV at the [Read More]
Bonhams Wine Department finished 2011 with its highest ever London sale total of £966,000 on 1st December and a year on year increase in sales of over 40% for the second year running. Allied to a similar increase in sales in the US, Bonhams Wine Department internationally achieved a sales total of [Read More]
Sotheby’s annual auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York will take place on 26 January 2012. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings will offer strong examples across a wide range of styles and genres, from early Italian pictures to Italian Baroque, French Rococo, Dutch 17th century [Read More]
Christie’s New York announces Americana Week 2012, two weeks of sales, viewings and a symposium devoted to three centuries of American craftsmanship in all its forms, including important furniture, folk art, silver, and decorative arts. The sales begin on January 19 with Important American Silver, followed by John James Audubon’s The Birds [Read More]
Sotheby’s final sale of 2011 in Paris, devoted to Asian Art, totalled €12.45 million against an overall pre-sale estimate of €6.5-9m. The highest price rewarded an 18th century cabinet formed by four carved zitan panels of dragons, from the reign of Emperor Qianlong. This remarkable item of furniture, of exceptional size, has [Read More]
TThe landmark auctions of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor at Christie?s New York from December 3-17 realized a combined total of $156,756,576 (£100,324,209/ €120,702,563) with every single item sold. The sale drew unprecedented interest from bidders throughout the world, who gathered in Christie?s flagship Rockefeller Center saleroom to compete in person, on [Read More]
A superb European sculpture unveiled at the Los Angeles Scottish Rite Cathedral on Christmas Day of 1913 is the highlight of Don Presley’s Dec. 31-Jan. 1 New Year’s Auction. The sale features 1,000 lots of antiques, Asian and other fine art, plus a bumper selection described by Presley as “a gallery of [Read More]
Sotheby’s announce that its New York auction of Important Americana on 20 & 21 January 2012 will feature a previously undocumented high chest of drawers by renowned cabinetmaker John Townsend, which represents one of the most important discoveries of American furniture to come to light in decades. Signed and dated in 1756 [Read More]
On January 17, 2012 Keno Auctions will showcase a remarkable selection of furnishings comprised of Americana, furniture and decorative arts from the 17 century through to the 20th century. Property from the Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts Sale will be sold at 10:00 a.m. that is composed of some dazzling [Read More]
Christie’s new York auctions the Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr. Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, the sale will conclude the series of sales comprising Americana Week. The late Peter Frelinghuysen, longtime U.S. Congressman from New Jersey and last grandchild of the famed collectors H. O. and Louisine [Read More]
The first of the farewell letters written in the Antarctic by Captain Robert Scott as he realised that he and his team would not survive is for sale at Bonhams Polar Sale in London on 30 March 2012. It is estimated to make £100,000-150,000. The letter, which was found on Scott’s body [Read More]
Following a hugely successful first open house in May 2011, Bonhams will once again open the doors of its Knightsbridge saleroom to offer free verbal valuations on Wednesday 4th January 2012. 9:30am to 4pm. Famille rose Tibetan-style ewer, penba Jiaqing seal mark and of the period. Photo: Bonhams. 20 of Bonhams art [Read More]
Julien’s Auctions, announces a sale of fine art and furnishings from 100 North Carolwood Drive, which will take place on Saturday, Dec. 17th, 2011, at Julien’s Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills, California. This exclusive sale will feature fine art, antiques, quality modern furniture and other collectibles from the residence in Holmby Hills. [Read More]
Sotheby’s Wine auctions in 2011 brought an overall global total of US$85,467,096; this is almost equal to last year’s figure of $88.27 million. The 2011 figure is the second highest in the company’s forty-one years of wine auctions. This year, 23 wine auctions were held worldwide, comprising 13 in London, six in [Read More]
A series of motorcycles from The Criss Angel MINDFREAK Collection will bring a touch of magic to the auction stage at Auctions America by RM’s debut Las Vegas sale, Jan. 12 – 14, 2012, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. ‘Magician of the Century’ and avid motorcycle enthusiast, Criss Angel. Photo: [Read More]
Acker Merrall & Condit, the World’s leading wine auctioneer and America’s oldest fine wine merchant, concluded another record year in Asia with its two-day Hong Kong sale held on 8 & 10 December 2011 in which over 800 lots were offered and a total of HK$72.75M/US$9.09M achieved with 92% sold. This spectacular [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces that it will offer the magnificent Archer M. Huntington Collection of coins from the Hispanic world in a sealed bid auction ending on 8 March 2012. Assembled more than a century ago, the 37,895 pieces form the most spectacular collection of coins relating to the entirety of Spanish history that [Read More]