(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the number one wine auction house in America and internationally renowned retailer, will hold an exciting auction of finest and rarest wines on October 29th at award-winning restaurant Tru, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The auction will begin promptly at [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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The Comic Art of Playboy: Over Five Decades of Illustration and Cartoons, more than 85 paintings, illustrations and cartoons that graced the legendary men’s magazine – led by pieces like Alberto Vargas’ Darling, It’s My Hat I Want Your Opinion On, Vargas Girl Playboy Pin-Up from April 1963 (estimate: $30,000+) – will [Read More]
The sale on 20th October contains 720 lots and includes many wines from the world famous wine critic, Robert Parker’s ‘Magical 20’ list. Among his 100 point wines offered are three dozen Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1982 (£10,000-12,000) and two cases of 1986 vintage (£6,500-7,500), a dozen Lafite Rothschild 1986 (£10,000-15,000) and five [Read More]
A solid gold presentation snuff box with a monogrammed ‘N’ for Napoleon on the lid is for sale at Bonhams Fine Silver sale in London on 23 November. Napoleon gold snuff box (£20,000-30,000) It was one of 100 gold boxes made for the Emperor in 1806 as gifts for friends, family, diplomats [Read More]
The 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 Scrambler Custom ridden by The Fonz in the television hit series Happy Days will be one of the highlights at Bonhams’ upcoming Classic California Sale in Los Angeles. 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 Scrambler Custom Happy Days, the beloved American sitcom that aired for ten years from 1974 [Read More]
On October 17 Ayyam Auctions will present Art and Antiques of the Islamic World: The Ottoman Levant Between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. As the inaugural event of a new series of public sales, this forthcoming auction will offer over 50 lots of masterworks with a special emphasis on artifacts from the [Read More]
The first printed depiction of one of the most famous buildings in the world, the Taj Mahal, was sold for £31,250 today (October 4) at Bonhams ‘India and Beyond: Travel and Photography’ sale in London. It had been estimated at £30,000-35,000. It is included in a volume of aquatint views of India [Read More]
A John Lennon handwritten letter to a fan supporting Maharishi’s transcendental mediation movement will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday October 11, 2011 auction. Lennon wrote to Jean, “You are searching for ‘something’ (truth) the same as everyone else – whether they know it or not.” He added that they were [Read More]
The auction was held Sept. 24 at the former home of the late Bradley Jackson in Jaffrey, N.H. (JAFFREY, N.H.) – An AC Spark Plugs tin die-cut flange sign, dated 1936 and featuring the iconic “Sparky” logo, sold for $2,310 at an on-site estate sale held Sept. 24 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn 2011 Sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings achieved HK$82.8 million / US$10.6 million, more than doubling the presale estimate (HK$33 million / US$4.2 million*), and achieving the Second Highest Sale Total For A Various-Owner Sale Of This Category At Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Hendra Gunawan, Tuak Manis [Read More]
A GLEAMING brass bell from RMS Mauretania (sister of Lusistania, c.1906), which latterly hung in Cunard’s offices in the Liver Building in Liverpool will be offered by Charles Miller Ltd on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in his sale of Maritime & Scientific Models, Instruments & Art in London (25, Blythe Road, W14). [Read More]
Sotheby’s report spirited bidding for top-quality works at the second installment of the Ullens Collection auctions in Hong Kong. Sotheby’s auction featuring Zeng Fanzhi’s The Mask Series, 1998 No.26. Photo: Sotheby’s. Holding the sale in a packed house populated by dozens of mainland Chinese, alongside local buyers and dealers, Sotheby’s saw opening [Read More]
Coinciding with Gerhard Richter’s Retrospective at Tate Modern (October 2011 to January 2012), Christie’s is to offer five definitive works by the artist in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 14 October. The group is led by the artist’s seminal Kerze (Candle) painted in 1982, which has not been seen [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of Fine Musical Instruments on October 14. The sale will offer over 150 instruments ranging from an 18th century violin and cello by Giovanni Grancino, to an extraordinary Gibson mandolin, and to more contemporary guitars, including a C.F. Martin model designed in collaboration with Eric Clapton. Guitars Commencing [Read More]
SOTHEBY’S SCANDINAVIAN SALE on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 will be headlined by Interior with Ida in a White Chair by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). Estimated at £500,000-700,000, the painting is one of the most important works by the artist ever to be offered at auction and comes to the market from a Private [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its London Contemporary Art auctions. The Evening auction will feature 36 lots with a low estimate of £10,060,000 /$15,938,000 and a high estimate of £14,600,000 /$22,111,000. The Day auction will comprise of 256 lots with a low estimate of £4,351,500/$6,273,300 and a high [Read More]
Sotheby’s fine art auctioneers have announced the sale of a group of works from the collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem across a series of sales throughout the upcoming autumn and winter auction seasons, in both New York and London. The group will be led by works in the New York sales [Read More]
Bonhams presents its Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts sale, October 31-November 1, featuring several historical San Francisco highlights, and timed to coincide with the oldest continuously operating international antiques show on the West Coast, The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. Royal Italian Neoclassical giltwood stool, Naples, early 19th century, height 29in (73cm); [Read More]