A grouping of six items, known as The Lou Gehrig Collection, brought to auction by the son of a woman who was left the trove by Gehrig’s mother, Christina, brought almost $1 million altogether as the emotional centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ Aug. 4 Signature® Vintage Sports Collectibles Platinum Auction. The lead lot [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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A gem-set gold pendant from the treasury of the legendary Indian ruler, Tipu Sultan, is among the star lots in the sale of the contents of Lord Glenconner’s St Lucian home at Bonhams in London on 28 September. It is estimated at between £80,000 and 120,000. Tipu Sultan Gold Pendant The gold [Read More]
Rock & Dirt, the preeminent “buy/sell” resource for the heavy construction industry, has announced that auction results are now available on its website at RockandDirt.com. “RockandDirt.com is a primary tool for equipment buyers everywhere,” said Travis Clark, Sales Manager. “Now, the site features current, accurate information for equipment auctions, including listings, calendars [Read More]
Proxibid will be the exclusive provider of live, online bidding for Red Carpet Auction Event’s “Convergence of the Arts” Auction and Show. The event will take place Saturday, August 20 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, with live online bidding via Proxibid commencing at this time. To view the online catalog, to register to [Read More]
Wedgwood ceramics collected by a man who started work at the Etruria factory straight from school, rising to the position of manager of the Jasper warehouse, are to be sold by Nantwich, Cheshire, auctioneers Peter Wilson. The sale is on September 7-8. Wedgwood’s master potters became Harry Sheldon’s friends and as the [Read More]
Bonhams hosts its next sale of South African Art in London, on October 25-26, following two sales which have seen world record prices achieved for works by leading local artists. Heading the line up for this sale is a stunning Irma Stern, ‘Watussi Woman’, from the early 1940s, when Stern was at [Read More]
The August 9, 2011 sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields offered a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and landscapes and cityscapes. Simulcast to San Francisco, the highly-anticipated auction brought more than $2.28 million and featured artists such as E. Charlton [Read More]
Sotheby’s announce the appointment of Tim Bourne as Worldwide Head of its Watches department. Mr. Bourne will be based in Hong Kong, overseeing Sotheby’s Asia watch auctions in addition to those in Geneva, New York and London. This marks a strategic move in response to the rapid expansion of the auction market [Read More]
One of the finest paintings by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, possibly the best loved of Scottish artists, is for sale at the Annual Scottish Sale at Bonhams, Edinburgh on Wednesday 31 August. It has an estimate of £120,000-180,000. ‘Sea Gulls and Sapphire Seas’ was painted in 1909 and represents the artist at the [Read More]
Doyle New York will auction the personal collection of famed New York City restaurateur Elaine Kaufman on Tuesday, September 20 at 10 a.m. This historic auction comprises almost 250 lots of artwork, books, memorabilia, furniture, decorations, fashion and accessories that Elaine collected or was given during her lifetime. These personal treasures were [Read More]
Two rare and important watercolours by George French Angas are to be auctioned at Bonhams Australian Art sale on 22 August at Byron Kennedy Hall, Sydney. One shows the departure of Sturt’s third and final expedition from Adelaide, while the other depicts the first Royal Adelaide Show. They are estimated to fetch [Read More]
Julien’s Auctions, will offer a rare glimpse into the life of one of Hollywood’s most colorful stars, Tony Curtis. The rare Hollywood star whose off-screen character was often more sensational than his on-screen one, lived a life that could be its own movie or television series. Curtis’ career spanned six decades with [Read More]
Nearly 1,000 lots crossed the block in a successful auction that grossed more than $1.2 million. (HYANNIS, Mass.) – A spectacular and rare sicklebill curlew decoy made in Duxbury, Mass., by a craftsman whose identity is a matter of debate among veteran collectors, soared to $111,550 at an auction held July 24-25 [Read More]
Bonhams announce a very impressive assembly of exceptional touring cars from Europe and America at its auction in Carmel, California on August 18th-19th. In addition to the previously reported and widely covered 1925 Rolls-Royce New Phantom “Tiger Hunter” commissioned by the Maharaja of Kotah and the 1927 Bentley 6½ Liter Sports Tourer [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2011 will be held at Hall 3, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1 to 6 October 2011. The six-day sales series will offer the finest collections across eight collecting categories, namely Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Fine Chinese Paintings, 20th Century Chinese Art, Contemporary [Read More]
Shepard Fairey, one of today’s most influential street artists, is joining Russell Simmons, Danny Simmons and more than a dozen other acclaimed artists, to raise funds for RUSH Philanthropic through the 4th Annual Art for Life Online Auction at leading online charity auction site charitybuzz.com. Fairey has donated a beautiful hand-painted multiple [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company New York, announce ‘The World of Muriel Brandolini’, an interiors auction, on OCTOBER 21, 2011, 10AM, celebrating the life and work of decorator Muriel Brandolini. A blaze of color on the fall calendar, Brandolini’s sale will include works from her wide-ranging collection of decorative arts, contemporary design [Read More]
Bonhams new Contemporary Art Department announce the sale of a highly important work by one of the most influential Italian artists of the 20th century, Alighiero E Boetti (1940-1994), in the Department’s inaugural sale on 13 October 2011. Attracting a pre-sale estimate of £1,200,000 – 1,800,000 and entitled 1984, this monumental piece [Read More]