A rare edition of Ernest Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories & Ten Poems [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923, one of just 300 copies printed brought $68,500 on Feb. 8 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $736,000+ Rare Books Signature(r) Auction, which took place at the company’s Beverly Hills salerooms. All prices include 25% Buyer’s [Read More]
Daily Archives: February 16, 2012
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Quinn’s Auction Galleries will officially launch its new premises at 360 S. Washington St. in the DC suburb of Falls Church, Va., with a Saturday, March 3 auction of fine and decorative artworks. Featured highlights within the sale’s more than 500 lots include paintings from the Denis and Lorena Thurman collection and [Read More]
Feeding the chickens to be on show in Bonhams new Dublin office on Friday 24th February Walter Frederick Osborne R.H.A, R.O.I (1859-1903) was the most important Irish artist of his generation, and an outstanding example of his work is to be offered for auction as part of the 19th Century Paintings sale [Read More]
“We are honored to have been selected to auction this home and acreage,” said Nicholls. “This property would make a great primary residence, investment property or farm/crop lease property.” “The property at auction consists of a 4 bedroom 2 bath brick home on 10 acres,” said Mr. Kelly Strauss, Nicholls Auction Marketing [Read More]
Bonhams inaugural auction solely devoted to Oceanic Art, February 11 in San Francisco, was led by the sale of a rare and important Rarotonga or Atiu pole-club, ‘akatara,’ of the Cook Islands, which achieved $146,500 – far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of $75,000-$100,000. Cuirass and Sword, Tabiteuea Atol, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Cuirass: [Read More]
Christie’s evening auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art totaled £80,576,100 ($126,504,477 / €96,127,287) selling 95% by value and 89% by lot. This is the 2nd highest total for the category at Christie’s London. The top lot of the sale was Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Henrietta Moraes which sold for £21.3 million. Combined [Read More]