Pieces by the most influential British gold and silversmith of the last century, Gerald Benney, are for sale in the Silver Auction (including post-war silver) at Bonhams Knightsbridge on 25 May. It follows the highly successful sale of Benney’s work last December which made more than £150,000. The star lot in May’s [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Rago Arts and Auction Center’s 2000+ lot three-day weekend marathon auction brought home a whopping $1,552,977 for the auction house and its consignors. The top lot was a Chinese embroidered dragon robe worn by its former owner to local basketball games, which sold for $49,600. Miriam Tucker, Rago partner, agreed. “This sale [Read More]
One of the highlights of Bonhams next 19th Century Paintings sale will be a remarkable watercolour of the Oyster Beds at Whitstable, Kent by the master of colour, light and atmosphere, J.M.W. Turner. It is estimated to sell for £120,000-180,000 when it is offered for auction on 13th July 2011, at Bonhams [Read More]
Social media and video marketing company (Hi-End Marketing, Inc) A California based corporation is holding an asset sale for a portfolio of websites including one of their growing video marketing news sites using one of the worlds largest public auction websites Flippa.com. “VideoMarketingTactics.com was developed in 2007 initially as a place where [Read More]
Sotheby’s London is to auction Skaters, A Scene on Duddingston Loch near Edinburgh by Scottish artist Charles Lees (1800?1880) in its sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Estimated at £100,000?200,000, the painting will make its first known appearance at auction since it was painted in 1853, and [Read More]
The trap, sporting some wicked-looking teeth, was the second-top lot of the 1,700 items offered. (MATTHEWS, N.C.) – A vintage Oneida Newhouse No. 6 bear trap, made in the 1880s and weighing a whopping 43 pounds, with three wicked-looking teeth mounted on each massive jaw, sold for $3,491 in an Internet and [Read More]
As part of the preview for its sale of Hockney Prints on 20 April Bonhams will be showing four films about Hockney’s life and work this Sunday, 17 April at 101 New Bond Street starting at 11.15. The running order is: 11.15. A Bigger Picture (60 mins) 12.15. A Bigger Splash (1 [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will auction the collection of Old Master Paintings, on Thursday 7th July 2011, formed by Saam & Lily Nijstad over the last four decades. Saam Nijstad was for many years a leading dealer in Dutch Old Masters based in The Hague, but he and his wife were also passionate collectors [Read More]
On May 1st, 2011, Nazmiyal Collection will be hosting an exciting online auction featuring a selection of outstanding antique carpets and collectible textile pieces from around the world. This unique collection is comprised of various collectible, decorative and rare carpets and textiles from the 17th century to Mid-Century Modern and Art Deco [Read More]
John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds are expected to fetch more than $200,000 (£122,000) at a Profiles in History, Los Angeles auction on 14 and 15 May, reports the BBC. The sheet, features the song’s third verse and the opening words to She’s Leaving Home. [Read More]
Famous Faces in Sale Also Include Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Nelson Mandella and Mike Tyson Four images of the celebrated Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs Sale on 19 May 2011. Three of the pictures – Picasso in front of [Read More]
Baldwin’s bi-annual London auctions are always a highlight of the numismatic calendar but this, the first of the year, will be a Great British spectacular! The 2-day auction will be held over the 3rd and 4th May and comprises a sensational array of British rarities, together with a selection of Russian numismatic [Read More]
The sign was the top achiever of the approximately 1,900 lots that crossed the block April 1-3. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – A magnificent Rock Island Railroad reverse glass sign, made in 1890 by an employee of the firm who fashioned reverse glass lamp shades for the Pullman cars, sold for $165,000 at [Read More]
The Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule that paved the way for Yuri Gagarin historic space mission sold for $2,882,500 to Evgeny Yurchenko, chairman of the investment fund AS Popov. Mr. Yurchenko purchased the icon of space history with the intention of returning it to his homeland, Russia. “The Vostok 3KA-2 space capsule is [Read More]
On Sunday, April 17th at 12:00 Noon, Clarke Auction will sell 400 lots drawn from estates on Central Park West and Sutton Place and from Great Neck, Scarsdale, Greenwich, and Brooklyn Heights. Fine Art includes Americo Di Franza, Christina Morton, John Burr, Clifford Alexander, Mary Townsend Mason, John Clifford Huffington, Ivan Olinsky(2), [Read More]
A work by Marcel Janco, the Rumanian-born artist, one of the founders of the Dadaist (anti-artists) movement, and a contemporary of Pablo Picasso, is the top lot in Bonhams Israeli Art & Judaica in London on May 24th. The painting titled ‘Marseille Port’, 1933, an oil on canvas, 100 x 133cm (39 [Read More]
The event will be held in the Historic Buford Hall, located at 112 East Shadburn Ave. in Buford. (BUFORD, Ga.) – A weekend sale featuring over 1,000 lots of folk art in a wide array of genres will be held April 30-May 1 by Slotin Auction at the Historic Buford Hall, located [Read More]
Irving Penn’s Harlequin Dress, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 1950, a Platinum-Palladium print from 1979, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the greatest fashion photographers to ever pick up a camera, is expected to bring $150,000+ to lead Heritage Auctions’ May 2 Signature Vintage & Contemporary Photography Auction, taking place at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion, 2 [Read More]