Christie’s will auction The Raglan Collection: Waterloo, Wellington and The Crimea at the South Kensington saleroom, 85 Old Brompton Road, on 4 April 2012. This private collection from Cefntilla Court, Monmouthshire – the ancestral home of the Barons Raglan since 1855 – includes important historical medals, arms and armour, militaria, pictures, furniture, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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Swann Galleries will offer an outstanding selection of Printed & Manuscript African Americana, at auction, on March 1. Swann is the only major auction house to devote sales to this important historical material dealing with the African experience in the Americas. This year’s sale contains material related to slavery and abolition, Africa, [Read More]
Waverly’s March 1 Fine and Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction offers an 1840 first edition of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. It comes with provenance from the Washington, DC-area collection of Charles Truitt and is estimated at $40,000-$60,000. White-headed sea eagle or bald eagle,’ one of 500 illustrations contained [Read More]
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the exceptional total of £50,688,450/ $79,672,106/ €60,719,674, surpassing presale high expectations (estimate: £35.8-49.7 million*). The auction established extremely strong sellthrough rates of 90.5% by lot and 94.6% by value and saw two artist records at auction set for A. R. Penck and Albert Oehlen. Buyers from [Read More]
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]
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]
Christie’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design on March 8 will be highlighted by a collection of Viennese Secessionism from the Hollywood home of Ron Bernstein, and will include approximately 40 works by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Eugene Gaillard, among others. Other sale highlights include French Art Nouveau Glass [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced the sale on 18 April 2012 in Paris one of the world’s most important collections of 17th & 18th Century French Silver – assembled for over half-a-century by Raymond Jourdan-Barry and his son Pierre. French 17th & 18th century silver. Photo: Sotheby’s The superbly coherent 200-lot ensemble embodies rarity and [Read More]
A stunning image from one of Irma Stern’s trips to Zanzibar which inspired some of her best work, titled ‘The Pink Sari’, signed and dated 1947, and with its original Zanzibar frame ,will be sold by Bonhams in London on March 21st for an estimated £800,000-1,200,000. Never before seen on the open [Read More]
The on-site auction — conducted by Tim’s, Inc. – will be at Morss’s home in Litchfield, Conn. (LITCHFIELD, Conn.) – The entire contents of a seven-room home and three-room guest house of Anthony Morss, music director and principal conductor of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera in Fort Lee, N.J., will [Read More]
A grouping of prime canvases by the master of Pin-Up Art, Gil Elvgren, will anchor Heritage Auctions’ March 1-2 Illustration Art Signature® Auction, led by Elvgren’s whimsical, tongue-in-cheek 1946 Brown and Bigelow calendar illustration, “I Hope the Boys Don’t Draw Straws Tonight,” estimated at $50,000+. The auction, which features a staggering 873 [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced its forthcoming sale of a private collection of Ottoman art, “An Eye for Opulence: Art of the Ottoman Empire”, which will take place on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 during ‘Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary’. The single owner sale will comprise a broad selection of works across a variety [Read More]
Property from the collection of the leading Mughal scholar, the late Dr. Linda York Leach (1942-2006) in Bonhams next Islamic and Indian sale on 24th April, offers a rare and exciting opportunity to collectors. Mandi prince Interest and scholarship in Indian miniature painting has grown considerably over the last fifty years and [Read More]
Potts Brothers Land and Auction, an independently owned and operated auction company, is hosting the East Tennessee Real Estate Auction from February 15th to March 1st. The auction, which is lender owned and online only, features an historic home and properties ranging from five acres to over 790 acres. When asked about [Read More]