Sotheby’s two-day sale series of Impressionist & Modern Art concluded with a combined total of £111,590,250 / $181,028,706 / ¤125,012,186. On the evening of 22nd June 2011, in a packed saleroom Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale was led by Egon Schiele’s 1914 cityscape Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II) / Houses [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Boston, MA – Skinner, Inc. will auction 1100 lots at their European Furniture and Decorative Arts event on Saturday, July 9th, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in their Boston gallery. The sale will feature Fine Ceramics including The Phyllis Ritvo Collection of Gouda Pottery, along with a diverse range of British, Italian and [Read More]
Christie’s will auction a drawing made by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes at its Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours sale on July 5. This enchanting drawing was numbered by Goya himself as sheet 37 of an unbound series of pages, commonly called Album E or the Black Border Album [Read More]
Auction sniper firm eSnipe, Inc. website has been awarded a “green bar” browser address and icon for high-level encryption of data between the customer’s browser and the eSnipe site, sharply reducing any possibility of “phishing” attacks and ensuring customers that the site they are using is, in fact, eSnipe. The “green bar,” [Read More]
Paintings by Wu Guangzhong, one of China’s most important contemporary artists, headline the biggest and most valuable sale to date at Surrey’s premier auctioneers Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers. The three-day Summer auction is on June 29, 30 and July 1. Leading the sale are six works on paper by Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) [Read More]
More than 100 extraordinary objects formerly displayed in the Forbes Galleries in New York City drew frenzied bidding from around the globe to help Heritage Auctions reach a total of more than $1 million in its June 1 Signature® Decorative Arts & Design and Gentleman Collector Auctions at the company’s Design District [Read More]
Sotheby’s is to auction the oil study A Bearded Man with Hands Raised by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (estimated at £200,000-300,000) in its 6th July 2011 sale of Old Master and British Paintings. The work, depicting a bearded man with his torso uncovered, was painted when the great 17th Century Flemish artist [Read More]
(ATLANTA, Ga.) – It’s 90 degrees in the shade in Atlanta and that can only mean one thing: Red Baron’s annual Summer Extravaganza is right around the corner. This year’s event is slated for the weekend of July 16-17, at Red Baron’s massive gallery facility, located at 6450 Roswell Road in Atlanta. [Read More]
Featuring Magnificent European Furniture & Works of Art, Important Russian Works of Art and Silver Six years after the landmark auction of Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, Sotheby’s announce a second sale dedicated to the remarkable Lily and Edmond J. Safra Collections. The four day auction will [Read More]
On Tuesday, June 14, Morphy Auctions’ CEO Dan Morphy cut the ribbon to launch his company’s newly expanded 36,000-sq.-ft. auction gallery and offices. Invited guests included executives from virtually all of the local firms that worked together to bring the project to fruition – from the senior VP of the bank that [Read More]
Third Highest Total For A Sotheby’s Wine Sale in London since the new millennium – World Auction Record Price for Le Pin 1982 at £80,500 for six magnums Sotheby’s London two?day wine sale, featuring An Impressive Private Collection, concluded yesterday with a total of £2,342,953 ($3,819,013), exceeding the pre?sale estimate of £1.7 [Read More]
Around 1,400 lots changed hands over the course of the two days. The sale grossed $600,000. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Three original, signed Peanuts daily comic strips from the 1960s by the late renowned illustrator Charles Schulz sold for a combined $40,115 at a multi-estate sale held on non-consecutive weekend days (June 9 [Read More]
Specialized dealer in 20th Century furniture Lampedo will be organizing a first time online auction with Italian vintage design by important architects and designers such as Gio Ponti, Gino Sarfatti, Ettore Sottsass, Angelo Lelli and Ico Parisi. For sale will be furniture, lighting and objets d’art in glass and ceramic. Platform for [Read More]
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place on Tuesday 21 June 2011 and will offer 92 lots with a pre-sale estimate of £115 million to £164 million*. Representing artistic movements from throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, and including works by many of the most celebrated artists of [Read More]
1910 Joe Jackson Card Sells For Record $200,000; Lou Gehrig Jersey $329,000; T206 Wagner hammered down at $188,000; Countless Baseball Card Auction Records Shattered At REA!!! Watchung, New Jersey. The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market amazed collectors at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 7, 2011 auction. An astounding 179 [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers announce a special antiques valuation day in aid of Far Fillimore Rest Home, Hanbury near Burton On Trent. The valuation day is being held on Saturday 25th June from 2pm to 4pm in conjunction with the annual fete in the grounds. All are welcome to dig out their treasures [Read More]
A Karl Müller-designed and signed Union Porcelain Works Centennial Vase, manufactured in Greenpoint, NY, circa 1876-1885, sold for $47,800 on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Decorative Arts & Design and Gentleman Collector Auctions at the company’s Design District Annex in Dallas. All prices include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. The [Read More]
The “Fighting Pair” dinosaurs, an allosaurus and stegosaurus so named because they were found literally on top of one another in Wyoming’s Dana Quarry – with the jaw of the allosaurus clamped around the leg of the stegosaurus, leading to the speculation that they were engaged in mortal combat at the moment [Read More]