Bonhams announces the upcoming sale of Dogs in Show and Field: The Fine Art Sale on Wednesday, February 16, 2011. This is Bonhams 29th Annual Sale and has long become a must for dog art collectors, standing alone as the market leader for the genre. Coinciding with the auction and the Westminster [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Bonhams Chinese and Japanese departments will offer two sales on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, starting with The Linda Riddell Hoffman Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles at 10am, followed by Fine Japanese Works of Art at 2pm. Both auctions will take place at the Bonhams saleroom located at 580 Madison Avenue at 56th [Read More]
A complete set of the first 150 editions of Gay News which belonged to its editor, Denis Lemon, is coming up for auction at the Printed Books and Manuscripts sale at Bonhams in London on 22 March. Gay News first appeared in June 1972. Founded by ex-members of the Gay Liberation Front [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company have announced highlights from the forthcoming Under the Influence auction. The sale will present a selection of 288 works including contemporary art, photographs and design. Portrait 5, Stephen(s), 2009 – 2010, a noted work of portraiture attributed to Stephen Colbert, enhanced by the artistic contributions of Shepard [Read More]
Grey Flannel Auctions has announced it will auction the Super Bowl I player’s ring belonging to Steve Wright, former offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers, in an absentee auction closing May 11. As the countdown continues to Super Bowl XLV, Grey Flannel Auctions has its own Super Bowl-related news to announce. [Read More]
Here’s something to raise a glass to – one of the finest and unique collections of English eighteenth century drinking glasses has been discovered in Lichfield. The collection of over thirty glasses dating from as early as c.1730 up to the early nineteenth century is the stuff of every Auctioneer’s dream. The [Read More]
Bonhams is mounting a campaign in Yorkshire to unearth paintings, prints and related objects by David Hockney for its dedicated Hockney sale in London on 20 April. The auctioneers will be offering free, confidential valuations at Salts Mill, Saltaire, on 19 February 2011. Bonhams will also be holding a general valuation, at [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to present the Estate of well-known collectors and autograph dealers, Charles Williamson and Tucker Fleming, on April 20, 2011. The sale, simulcast between Los Angeles and New York, features an impressive collection of approximately 600 lots highlighted by one-of-a-kind personal letters, documents, and photographs covering literature, art [Read More]
Crammed with consignment, one item attracts curious attention: a cast likeness of John Dillinger, created after he was shot by police and federal agents in 1934. “It’s an excellent example of the kinds of things people have in their basements and attics in Kansas City,” said Auctioneer Andrew Turner. “It’s fun to [Read More]
A previously unknown painting by Walter Sickert, entitled The Blind Sea Captain, is one of the highlights of the 20th Century British Art Sale in New Bond Street on the 9th March. The painting, which is estimated to sell for £40,000 – 60,000, is from a private collection, inherited by the vendor [Read More]
Bauhaus enthusiasts and lovers of Modernism will have a shot at rare postwar Bauhaus furniture from an East Berlin estate offered by Authentics, in Lambertville, NJ, one hour from Manhattan. The two Bauhaus sideboard sets are being shown at the Rago Arts Modern Design Auction this Saturday February 5, 2011. The sale [Read More]
The weekend event will be held at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor, Mich. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – Over 1,800 lots of investment-grade antiques and collectibles – to include country store and advertising items from the Earl Hagerman collection, many pieces from the Chesapeake Bay Fire Fighting Museum in Maryland, [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to present a selection of rare, intricate views of early America through illustrated volumes and art books during its Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February 13, 2011. The firm will present a book, prominently featuring California backdrops, of 100 hand-colored lithograph plates and accompanying text by [Read More]
On Sunday, February 6th at 10:00 am, Clarke Auction’s Super Bowl Kick Off will feature 400+ lots drawn from estates in Pelham, the East and West Side, Park Avenue, Forest Hills, Scarsdale, Larchmont, Riverdale, and the personal storage unit of Hiram Hoelzer, noted New York and Greenwich art restorer. Fine Art includes [Read More]
The phone, mail, catalog and Internet auction is already online, at www.SeriousToyz.com. (CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nearly 1,200 lots of rare, vintage toys, many of them mint in the box and highly desirable pieces, will be sold in a phone, mail, Internet and catalog auction already online at SeriousToyz.com. The sale will conclude [Read More]
A beautiful picture by the prolific British maritime and figurative painter, Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), entitled Sleeping Sailor, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of The Marine Sale on 22 March 2011. Initially sold for £15 to Arthur Taylor, it has now attracted a pre-sale estimate of [Read More]
The all-day marathon sale will be held in Fontaine’s gallery facility, located in Pittsfield, Mass. One lot – a magnificent pair of Carl Faberge silver figural candelabra – could bring $100,000. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A massive, two-session cataloged antique auction featuring over 800 lots of period furniture, vintage clocks and lighting, firearms, [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart, America’s largest wine auction house, opened 2011 with a highly-charged auction of finest and rarest wines, selling 100% of lots and posting $4.6 million in sales against a pre-sale auction estimate of $2.9m-$4.3m, and achieving a 10% increase in prices over December. Attendees filled the auction room in downtown [Read More]