Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art and The Art of the Surreal Evening Auctions will take place on 7 February 2012 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £86,205,000 -127,090,000 (corresponding estimate in 2011: £73.8-109 million). Combined with the Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist works which will be offered in Living with Art – [Read More]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
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Two outstanding portraits by Irish artist Sir William Orpen will headline Sotheby’s sale of British and Irish Art in London on Thursday, 10 May 2012. The company is redesigning its traditional auctions of Victorian and Edwardian Art, and Irish Art and these sales will be retitled British and Irish Art: Victorian/Early 20th [Read More]
Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, will showcase a significant selection of Contemporary Indian artists at their 24-Hour Absolute Auction. The Absolute Auction is defined as an auction with no reserve prices. Initial online bids on each lot will be accepted at US$ 100 or Rs. 5000, no matter the [Read More]
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, is proud to be offering one of the world’s finest private museums, the Milhous Collection, during a multi-day sale, February 24 – 25, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida. The result of over five decades of judicious collecting by brothers Bob & Paul Milhous, the extraordinary collection [Read More]
Highlights of the Sale*: Burgundy Romanée Conti 1990, Domaine de la Romanée Conti Sold for HK$1,837,500 / US$235,577 per case Est.HK$1 – 1.5 million / US$130,000 – 190,000 Romanée Conti 1988, Domaine de la Romanée Conti Sold for HK$1,163,750 / US$149,199 per case Est. HK$750,000 – 1 million / US$95,000 – 130,000 [Read More]
Swann Galleries is to offer an outstanding assortment of more than 430 Vintage Posters at auction on Thursday, February 2. This sale, the first of Swann’s 2012 season, features some exceptional rarities, as well as iconic images from the U.S. and Europe. The auction opens with a selection of approximately 100 rare [Read More]
The clock was the top lot of the 400 or so lots that changed hands at a sale held in Malvern, Pa. (MALVERN, Pa.) – An exceedingly rare and important Waltham girandole (ornate banjo) clock, made around 1900 and with a serial number of 1, making it possibly the first of fewer [Read More]
Bonhams have appointed Gayatri Juneja as a representative based in New Delhi where she will act as a liaison between Bonhams UK and India. Gayatri was born and brought up in New Delhi and completed her education in Switzerland and the UK. She has an undergraduate degree in the History of Fine [Read More]
Poster Auctions International present a specialty sale of over 400 food & wine related vintage posters, on Sunday, February 12. A veritable history of eating and drinking through advertising will be offered, from the whimsical charm of Art Nouveau to the striking boldness of Art Deco to the simplicity of Modern design, [Read More]
Bonhams, announced that it is taking new office space in one of the most prestigious parts of Dublin, 31 Molesworth Street. This Georgian townhouse provides a suite of offices on two floors with direct access from the street (ground and 1st floor). Before the office opens officially later this year it will [Read More]
Bonhams announce the Fine American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts auction taking place January 19 during New York City’s Americana Week. This sale will attract beginners and seasoned collectors alike since the sale includes several stunning highlights, as well as a fine cross selection of English and Continental furniture and decorative [Read More]
The Auction Features Outstanding Collections of Burgundy from DRC, Roumier, Rousseau & Domaine Ramonet (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in the United States, will hold an exciting auction of Fine and Rare wines on February 4th at award-winning restaurant TRU, located at 676 North [Read More]
Bonhams will auction a magnificent and exceptionally rare pair of silver flintlock holster pistols. Estimated to sell for £40,000-60,000 they will be offered at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, on Wednesday 18 April 2012. The pair are highly decorated with chased silver barrels, locks and mounts, made by one of Britain’s best gunsmiths in the [Read More]
Works by Belgian artists Felix Labisse, Constant Permeke and René Magritte are to feature in Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction on 7th February 2012 at 101 New Bond Street, London, as well as an exciting selection of paintings by Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Candido Portinari and Carlos [Read More]
A lady’s Cartier Art Deco diamond wristwatch realized $21,000 in Cordier Auctions’ Two Day Antique & Fine Art Auction, the inaugural auction in their new Harrisburg, Pennsylvania salesroom on November 5 and 6. Other highlights of the sale included a 19th century Flemish carved ivory tankard at $16,000 and a massive Chinese [Read More]
An important and rare mint stamp collection worth over £60k has been discovered on a valuation day in Sutton Coldfield. Specialist philatelic valuation days are held by Richard Winterton Auctioneers every so often, (at the Trinity Centre, Church Hill, Sutton Coldfield) with recognised authority Stuart Billington on hand to give his expert [Read More]
Bonhams presents its inaugural auction solely devoted to Oceanic Art on February 11 in San Francisco, with 150 lots of original, diverse works from the regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia and Australia, that will appeal to both seasoned and entry-level collectors. The auction is timed to occur alongside the 26th Annual [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 8th February 2012, will offer a selection of works of exceptional quality and importance. Highlights include Joan Miró’s monumental Peinture of 1933, estimated at £7-10 million, Gustav Klimt’s recently rediscovered landscape Seeufer mit Birken (est. £6 – 8 million), which has not been [Read More]