Richard Winterton Auctioneers are delighted to announce the sale of the contents of Amington House, Tamworth, Staffordshire next week, (26th to 28th October). The contents of the imposing Georgian period property have been removed to The Lichfield Auction Centre in preparation for the three day auction. The sale will include a magnificent [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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With the launch of AuctionZip Mobile, auction-goers now can search using their smartphones for their favorite items and collectibles upcoming at auction. AuctionZip Mobile offers AuctionZip’s signature ZIP Code Locator in a compact and streamlined design. The new mobile site functions with all major mobile devices, offering compatibility with iPhone, iPad, Android, [Read More]
A private collection of over 100 paintings by the ornithological artist J. C. Harrison are to be offered for auction on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The works are from the collection of the renowned wildlife photographer Terry Andrewartha who worked for the Anglia TV programme Survival [Read More]
The Sunny View Youth Involvement Association raised $140,000 through a unique fundraiser – an art auction at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital that featured the art of kids with disabilities, some unable to speak and with limited mobility. The funds raised during the Able Artists Auction will support the Expressive Arts Program [Read More]
Bonhams will be auctioning the Harriet Szechenyi Collection of Japanese Art in New Bond Street, London, on the 8th November. Much like the author Edmund de Waal in his memoir “The Hare with the Amber Eyes”, Harriet Szechenyi was fascinated in building a unique collection that had passed from hand to hand, [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announces that it will sell a previously unrecorded example of the earliest version of the original Dockwra hand-stamps, the “Murray’s Post” stamp, in its English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations Sale on December 15th 2011. London Penny Post hand-stamp dating from 1680/81 Photo: Sotheby’s Marking a crucial development in [Read More]
The massive single-owner collection will be sold at Finney’s showroom, in Schodack, N.Y. (SCHODACK, N.Y.) – A massive single-owner collection consisting of hundreds of rare, vintage and hard-to-find items in a variety of categories will be sold on Saturday, Oct. 29, by Finney’s Auction Service, beginning promptly at 11 a.m. (EST). The [Read More]
Contemporary dance company Armitage Gone! Dance will benefit from the sale of artworks by seven major contemporary artists at Christie’s New York on November 9, 2011. The lots will form a prominent part of the auction house’s much watched Post War and Contemporary morning session. The artists participating in the special tribute [Read More]
Watermelon Slices, a major work by Rufino Tamayo depicting one of his signature themes is to be among the highlights of Sotheby’s auction of Latin American Art in New York on 16 November 2011. The painting is being sold by The Museum of Modern Art in New York to benefit the Acquisitions [Read More]
Julien’s Auctions, will auction an extraordinary collection of personal property from the legendary entertainer Bette Midler on Saturday November 12th. Midler is one of the few performers who are instantly known by their first name, and is regarded by all as “The Divine Miss M.” Since her debut album in 1972, she [Read More]
Bonhams Asian Decorative Arts auction on November 15 in San Francisco will feature a strong variety of fresh property from private collections and institutions in this 600 lot session, over 500 of which are Chinese. The sale will include a broad selection of 19th and late 20th century huanghuali and hardwood furniture [Read More]
The auction went online Sept. 1 and concluded Sept. 14. In all, 149 quality lots changed hands. (WOODSTOCK VALLEY, Conn.) – A vintage American Calabash flask showing a tree-in-leaf bust portrait of George Washington (circa 1845-1860) soared to $28,080 to take top lot honors in an auction held Sept. 1-14 by Norman [Read More]
Christie’s will offer a pair of Russian porcelain vases in their 28 November Russian Art Sale. These magnificent vases were presented by Emperor Nicholas I to Karl Ludwig Graf von Ficquelmont (1777-1857), who served as the Austrian Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Russian court from 1829-1839. Graf von Ficquelmont was one of Chancellor [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will present for sale an exceptional range of Imperial porcelain, monochrome ceramics, bronzes and jades in its biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on Wednesday, 9th November 2011. The auction will comprise 560 lots, estimated to realise in the region of £12 million. Highlights include a [Read More]
Antik A.S., will auction exceptional paintings by the most important Modern & Contemporary Turkish Artists. The auction will take place on October 22, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 175 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection [Read More]
Christie’s New York Important Silver and Objects of Vertu sale on October 21, will present 218 precious works in silver and gold by well-known craftsmen such as Paul Storr, Mario Buccellati and many others. Highlighting the sale is an extraordinary Swiss gold, enamel and pearl-set singing-bird box with a rare double watch [Read More]
Several paintings from the collection of one of the UK’s first abstract expressionist painters, Frank Avray Wilson (1914-2009), are to be sold by Bonhams as part of its Contemporary Two sale at Knightsbridge on Knightsbridge Wednesday 19 October. Hans Hartung (German, 1904-1989) Untitled 1948 signed and dated 48 mixed media on brown [Read More]
Pierre Auguste Renoir’s oil painting, Le Bouquet, 1910, is expected to bring $500,000+ as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ American & European Art Signature® Art Auction, being held Nov. 8 at the company’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. Le Bouquet, 1910, comes to auction from the family of famed Texas [Read More]