Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces that its Southeast Asian Paintings Spring Sale 2012 will take place on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Walter Spies, Banyan with Two Young Balinese, 1927. Est: HK$6.5 –11.5 million / US$840,000 – 1.49 million. Photo: Sotheby’s The sale brings together a substantial selection [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
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Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale 2011 on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, presenting a meticulously selected group of contemporary Chinese artworks of great historical importance, among them Bloodline – Big Family: Family No. 2 (Est. HK$25 –35 million / US$3.2 – [Read More]
The author, John Edward Simpson, was an assistant surgeon on the doomed ocean liner. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A rare, two-page letter, handwritten aboard the HMS Titanic by an assistant surgeon on the doomed ocean liner, sold for $40,700 after it had failed to meet the reserve in an auction held March 1-3 [Read More]
Bonhams Fine & Rare wine sale on 29th March at New Bond Street, London turns the focus on Burgundy. Producers on offer include Robert Arnoux, Sylvain Cathiard, Chandon de Briailles, Coche-Dury, Domaine Dujac, Fontaine-Gagnard, Vincent Girardin, Jean Grivot, Lucien Jacob, Domaine Leflaive, Perrot-Minot, Domaine de Montille as well as Domaine de la [Read More]
A letter written in 1915 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, will be offered by Bonhams in the Printed Books and Maps sale taking place in Oxford on the 17th April and is estimated to sell for £200 – 400. The letter from Reginald [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York to auction property from the Estate of Theodore J. Forstmann. A significant group of works will highlight Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 May 2012 and includes Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Dora Maar titled Femme assise dans un fauteuil, which exemplifies the artist’s wartime work and [Read More]
Cowan’s Auctions, Inc. inaugural Fine Jewelry and Timepieces Auction will take place on March 29, 2012. The 300-lot sale will be held at Cowan’s Auctions salesroom and will feature a collection of signed and unsigned jewelry, timepieces, handbags and other couture. In addition to the sale, two complementary preview events will be [Read More]
A wealth of rare antique signs, figures and other promotional items from the golden era of advertising is currently on display at Morphy’s central Pennsylvania gallery, all to be auctioned on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21. Leaded-glass Coca-Cola hanging globe with 200 glass panels, late teens to early 1920s, est. $12,000-$18,000. Morphy [Read More]
Artam Antik A.S, will offer Erol Akyavas’s “I’m the Truth” a monumental canvas dated 1987. (190×360 cm.) The work has a starting price of 600,000 EURO and is expected to have an auction record for a modern work of Turkish art… Olgac Artam, the CEO and the auctioneer, said “the sale is [Read More]
Known as the time of year to reinvent one’s surroundings, the Spring season encourages us to clean, to move out the unwanted and bring in the new! What better place to search out the “new” than in an auction venue where one can just as easily find a prehistoric Mississippian pottery bowl, [Read More]
WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY. The catalog for Robert Edward Auctions’ 2012 blockbuster sale will ship on April 16, 2012. While most of the auction is baseball-related, also included is the original Warren cover painting for Vampirella #17 (June 1972), the very first Vampirella cover painting by Enrich that launched his career as Vampirella’s [Read More]
Swann Galleries will offer a two-part sale of Property from the Estate of Filmmaker Gary Winick and 19th & 20th Century Photographs & Photobooks, April 4. When accomplished film producer and director Gary Winick died last year at the age of 49, he left behind collections of photographs, fine art prints and [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will auction Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art as part of the Asia Week series of Auctions, on On 20 March 2012. The sale includes property from over seventy private collections some of which has not been seen in public for over fifty years. The auction features a [Read More]
Saffronart the India’s largest online fine-art auction house, concluded its thematic 24-Hour Online Auction – ‘Carpets & Rugs’ with sales totaling Rs. 54.6 Lakhs (USD 111,384). Successfully expanding Saffronart’s online auction platform to carpets of Indian, Persian and Turkish carpets, this sale saw active bidding and participation, with many of the lots [Read More]
Christie’s New York will auction the private library of Kenneth Nebenzahl, renowned dealer, cartographic scholar and author from Chicago. Formed over the past fifty years, the collection includes some of the greatest rarities in the fields of cartography, exploration and Americana. Agnese atlas. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2012 Highlights of [Read More]
The Lotus collection of Olav Glasius, a world renowned collector and lifetime Lotus fan will be sold on Friday the 29th June 2012 at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale and is expected to realise in excess of £1.5million. As a young motor racing enthusiast watching the legendary Jim Clark dominate [Read More]
Dedham , MA Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers are pleased to announce their upcoming March Two Day Auction will be held on Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th. The auction will include over 1000 lots of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from many [Read More]
A major work by one of the most important British print makers of the 20th Century is to be auctioned at Bonhams Print Sale at New Bond Street London on 17 April. Speedway (1934) by Sybil Andrews, estimated at £50,000-70,000, is one of the iconic images of the Grosvenor School of printmaking [Read More]