Bonhams Hong Kong set a new outright world record for a Chinese snuff bottle on 28 November 2011, at the auction of the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part IV at the Island Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong. The tiny, yet exquisite, ‘famille-rose’ enamelled glass ‘European-subject’ snuff bottle made in the Imperial [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Sotheby’s London Important Russian Art evening auction brought £5,597,000/$8,657,999 (est. £5,755,000-8,415,000). The sale achieved sellthrough rates of 66.7% by lot and 74.6% by value, and established two new artist records for Alexander Golovin and Pavel Kovalevsky. Petr Konchalovsky, Tatar Still Life, 1916, sold for £914,850/$1,415,181. Photo: Sotheby’s. The top-selling lot of this [Read More]
On 13 December 2011 Sotheby’s New York is to offer the founding partnership agreement of the Apple Computer Company – the firm that revolutionized technology, business, personal computing and the world. The 1976 document, which once belonged to Ronald G. Wayne, one of Apple’s founders along with Steven P. Jobs and Stephen [Read More]
An Intense Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring, custom-made by Underwood’s, is expected to bring in excess of $100,000 when it comes to auction on Dec. 5 as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions’ Fine Jewelry Signature(r) Auction, being held at the company’s Design District Annex at 1518 Slocum Street. 10 carat [Read More]
Diamonds, lustrous pearls and spectacular Victorian cameos join a select array of Swiss watches and other high-quality estate jewelry in a 300-lot sale to be held Wednesday, Dec. 7 at Quinn’s. The family-owned auction house that serves the Washington, D.C. and Mid-Atlantic region has built a strong following for its annual pre-Christmas [Read More]
A Shreve & Co. 14K Gold Santa Anita Racing Trophy, presented to the legendary sprint horse Bric a Bac after his dramatic win in the 1945 San Juan Capistrano Handicap, the first race run at the famed racetrack after World War II, is expected to bring $30,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ [Read More]
A unique motorcycle created for the 2011 Great Escape 2 – a charity motorcycle ride across Europe to commemorate the 50 RAF officers who met their demise after the so-called ‘Great Escape’ from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in March 1944 – is to be sold in Bonhams [Read More]
Sotheby’s is exhibiting selected highlights of the London Sale Series of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong from 25 to 27 November (Friday to Sunday) 2011. The exhibition offers an early viewing of important highlights from the major London sales of Impressionist & Modern Art which take [Read More]
Bonhams sale of Modern Sporting Guns on December 13 in Knightsbridge features a number of items with fascinating and historic Indian links – a cartridge-magazine, a shotgun case, a pair of Purdey shotguns and a Colt revolver, all with histories linking them to the period of the Raj. A fascinating item thanks [Read More]
Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in New York on 13th December 2011, will include The Jean-Vounder Davis Collection of the Raymond Chandler Library – a unique group of books from the collection of one of America’s greatest detective fiction writers. Many of the titles are personalized by the author and offer [Read More]
Wright are to auction The Kenneth Laurent House and Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright as part of their Important Design sale on 15 December 2011. The Kenneth Laurent House In 1948 Kenneth Laurent commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build a home that integrated his needs as a wheelchair-bound disabled veteran with Wright’s [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company will present a pop-up shop of unique works, limited-editions and prints by artists and designers such as Max Lamb, Martino Gamper, Michael Anastasiades, Tauba Auerbach, Faye Toogood, Bethan Laura Wood, DavidDavid, Snarkitecture, Brunno Jahara, Humans Since 1982, Victoria Wilmotte, Jonathan Muecke, Oeuffice, and Ben Adams at at [Read More]
At Koller Geneva autumn auction on 18 November over 70 % of the objects found new owners. The top lots were successfully auctioned. Good results were achieved especially for the 20th century painters from the West of Switzerland, large format sculptures and design objects made of gold and silver. As ever, classic [Read More]
Wright auctions Important Design is comprised of a number of works from prominent collectors and distinguished interiors as well as exceptional forms by the 20th century’s leading artists and designers. The sale includes more than two dozen sculptures by Harry Bertoia, including an excellent Gong and an unparalleled selection of sculptures from [Read More]
Mademoiselle Dryden, a portrait by the Scottish Colourist J.D. Fergusson, painted in Paris in the golden period before World War I, leads Bonhams 19th and 20th Century Pictures and Prints sale in Edinburgh on 8 December. It is estimated at £50,000-70,000. Paris before the First World War was the centre of the [Read More]
Christie’s will present an auction, in London offering the strongest selection of Russian paintings and works of art on the market this season, on 28 November. The sale will offer rediscovered treasures by many of the most celebrated artists in the field, including Natalia Goncharova, Vasily Vereshchagin, Boris Grigoriev, Filipp Maliavin and [Read More]
Historically important objects relating to Guangdong province in Southern China will go to block at the Hong Kong 2011 Autumn Auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, on November 28, 2011 at the Island Shangri-La Hotel. Located in Guangdong province, the economic powerhouse in Southern China, Hong Kong is the [Read More]
Bonhams announces its auction of Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection Part IV, to be held in Hong Kong on November 28, 2011 at the Island Shangri-la Hotel. Following extraordinary results achieved by Bonhams for Parts I, II and III of the collection, in which every snuff bottle from [Read More]