Henry John Yeend King (British 1855-1924) was an important and influential artist. He was a Victorian genre and landscape artist who specialised in idyllic country scenes, often with pretty farm girls at work or resting. Henry John Yeend King Yeend King was born in London and started out as a choirboy at [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
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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. The 1,260-lot sale incorporates a fantastic array of signage, with the centerpiece being the revered Coca-Cola [Read More]
Charles Miller Ltd’s auction and sale is open to all and is a unique opportunity to see and buy some of the rare, curious and historic items that will be coming under the hammer next month in London. The forthcoming sale includes fascinating items relating to Titanic, Nelson, and Shackleton. • Emotive [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of an exceptional collection of jewelry from the Estate of Huguette M. Clark, one of the last great heiresses of America’s Gilded Age. Ms. Clark’s jewelry collection, which is believed to have been stored in a bank vault since the 1940s, includes signed Art Deco jewels by Cartier, [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 May 2012, will include Double Elvis [Ferus Type] by Andy Warhol, a painting that epitomizes the artist’s obsessions with fame, stardom, and the public image. The 1963 work is a seminal piece from the iconic series devoted to the singer and actor that [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of Property from the Estate of Brooke Astor – beloved philanthropist and legendary figure in New York society – will be held on 24 & 25 September 2012. The sale will comprise fine and decorative art from Mrs. Astor’s Park Avenue apartment in New York City and her [Read More]
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Margaret K. Tierney as the company’s representative for Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey. Ms. Tierney offers seventeen years of experience in the international fine art auction industry and an in-depth knowledge of the regional, national and international art market. Malcolm Barber, Bonhams [Read More]
Boston, MA – March 15, 2012 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts on Saturday, March 31st in its Boston gallery. The sale begins with nearly 450 lots of fine silver from England, the Continent, Asia, and the Americas. It continues with 400 more lots covering [Read More]
The gold cape that Elizabeth Taylor wore as Cleopatra in two pivotal scenes in the 1963 film of the same name is expected to bring $20,000 as the top entertainment lot in Heritage Auctions’ March 30 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature® auction. The top lot on the music side is expected to [Read More]
Sotheby’s Single Owner sale of property from The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla: Important Porcelain, Venetian Fine and Decorative Arts from their Residence in Geneva realised £4,575,733 / $7,173,834 / €5,503,686 well above the pre-sale estimate of £2.5 – 3.8 million. The auction was 89 % sold by lot and 96 [Read More]
Bonhams next sale of Antiquities on April 25th in New Bond Street features an important piece of Classical bronze sculpture, believed to depict a Hellenistic warrior of the 1st Century B.C., discovered in a London home. After conservation it will be sold for £50,000 to £80,000. Madeleine Perridge, Head of Antiquities at [Read More]
This one promises to be the best ever, with 500-600 lots of quality, fresh-to-the-market items. (BRISTOL, Conn.) – Get ready, all you hibernating snowbirds in Connecticut and lower New England. It’s time to shake off the winter snow (not that there was much of the white stuff) and make plans for the [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield, (UK) are delighted to have been appointed as agents to offer a watch believed to have once belonged to Lord Lucan, (Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, b.1934, legally declared dead by The High Court in 1999). The unnamed silver watch bears the following inscription on [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announce that its sale of Contemporary Turkish Art, will take place on Thursday 26th April 2012 during Sotheby’s Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary, which will commence on the 24th of April 2012*. Comprised of over 90 lots, the sale is estimated to fetch in excess of £1.5 million. [Read More]
The auction will take place in the firm’s state-of the-art showroom at 1330 St. Charles Avenue. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – An unusual 19th century American patchwork sampler quilt, a phenomenal Italian carved walnut three-piece parlor suite and outstanding works of art from the estate of Dr. James W. Nelson will be sold [Read More]
Lots may be viewed online starting April 24. The auction will begin April 27 and end May 6. (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – Bottles, bottles, who’s got the bottles? American Bottle Auctions, that’s who – around 175 bottles, in fact, many of them rare and vintage examples in a broad variety of categories. All [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its 20th Century Chinese Art Spring Sale 2012 on 2 April, offering more than 140 lots at a total estimate of HK$160 million / US$20.5 million. This sale includes outstanding modernist, abstract, realist, and photographic works, a veritable epitome of the development of Chinese art in the [Read More]
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has announced the appointment of Amelie von Bülow as the company’s new representative in Cologne with immediate effect. For the last four years Amelie has worked as an expert in Contemporary Art for Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne where she gained a comprehensive expertise in contemporary [Read More]