Christie’s announced the spring sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on March 1, featuring an array of works with notable provenance that are fresh to the market, including the Collection of Dr. Mark and Irene Kauffman. The sale offers outstanding and rare pieces by Jack Levine, Ben Shahn, and Max [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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Timed to coincide with the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Bonhams is pleased offer property from the Serendipity Bookstore in Berkeley, CA on February 12. Highlights will include general antiquarian books, art and fine press, modern literature and poetry with a section dedicated to John Steinbeck, Americana and early baseball literature. [Read More]
Bonhamspresents its quarterly Salon Jewelry & Watches auction on March 26 in San Francisco, featuring an impressive selection of rings, bracelets and accessories. One of the auction’s star lots will be a Cartier, French, cultured pearl and emerald “Panthère” bracelet, composed of five strands of cultured pearls, measuring approx. 3.9 to 3.5mm, [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, located at 1034 Gateway Blvd. in Boynton Beach. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Around 400 quality lots of fine artwork, decorative art and Russian works will cross the block on Saturday, Feb. 25, at Elite Decorative Arts. The auction will be held in the [Read More]
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses, is pleased to announce its inaugural auction of Works by African American Artists on March 1, 2012. Hughie Lee-Smith, Acropolis II. Est: $20/30,000. In addition to the March 1 auction, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will hold a separate selling exhibition featuring [Read More]
Christies 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]
The autograph manuscript of Peter Warlock’s masterpiece The Curlew is to be auctioned at Bonhams Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on March 27th.It is estimated at £4,000-6,000. The Curlew, a setting of four poems by W B Yeats, is seen as his best work, a view shared by the [Read More]
This important estate sale will be conducted at Alderfer Auction Center in Hatfield, Pa. (HATFIELD, Pa.) – Stephen L. Flood could never be referred to as a “low key” person. He was a man that lived life “large”. He knew what he wanted out of life in the way he lived and [Read More]
One of just 300 first edition copies printed of Ernest Hemingway’s first book – Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923 – is expected to bring $75,000+ when it comes across the auction block on Thursday, Feb. 8, as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions’ Rare Books Signature® Auction, [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced the Single Owner sale on 14th March 2012 of property from The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla: Important Porcelain, Venetian Fine and Decorative Arts from their Residence in Geneva. Descendants of the founder of the most important pasta producer in the world, Giovanni Barilla and in particular his wife [Read More]
An incredibly rare piece of original, published Calvin and Hobbes artwork – 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor Illustration Original Art (c. 1988) – by artist Bill Watterson, is expected to bring $50,000+ when it comes to auction as part of Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 23 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature® event, at the [Read More]
Bidding will open on February 7th, 2012 at 12pm CST. When bidding opens, individuals will be able to click on a helmet and enter a bid. The placement of a bid will start a 24 hour timer. If the individual is outbid within that 24 hours, the timer will start again and [Read More]
Christie’s announces 2011 sales of £3.6 billion / US$5.7 billion, up 9% by £ (14% by US$) compared with 2010 (figures include buyer’s premium). This includes private sales of £502 million / US$808.6 million, an increase of 44% by £ (50% by US$) on 2010. Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Self-Portrait”. [Read More]
When does a work of art become part of a country’s national heritage? Bonhams next sale of South African Art on 21st March 2012 in New Bond Street, London,may go some way towards answering that question when “Zulu Woman” by Irma Stern goes under the hammer. Irma Stern Zulu Woman Painted in [Read More]
On Saturday, January 28, 2012, the much-anticipated High Noon Western Americana Auction was held in Mesa, AZ to a standing-room only crowd inside the ballroom of the Marriott Mesa Hotel. The key offering of the sale, which received worldwide media attention, was the rare, historic, silver embroidered saddle that belonged to the [Read More]
A beautiful watercolour of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard by Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851), that had not been seen at auction since 1884, sold yesterday (Wednesday 25th January 2012) for £217,250 as part of the 19th Century Paintings Sale at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. The sale total was £1,871,925. Turner [Read More]
An image of horsemen playing the traditional game of Buzkashi with a headless goat, painted by Ismail Gulgee (Pakistan, 1926-2007), is estimated to sell for £15,000- £25,000 at Bonhams next sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art in London on June 7th. The painting shows some 17 riders, mainly on grey [Read More]
A painting of Captain Scott’s ship, Terra Nova, leaving Cardiff as it set sail for the South Pole in 1910 is for sale at Bonhams Polar Sale in London on 30 March 2012. It is estimated at £7,000-9,000. Cardiff had played a vital role in the preparations for the voyage and the [Read More]