(IRVINE, CA)—California based Spectrum Wine Auctions announced today highlights from its first Hong Kong sale of the year, to take place on March 23 and 24, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong. Spectrum Wine’s Spring 2012 Auction will feature their largest Burgundy offering ever The Spring 2012 Auction will feature [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
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Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers announce their upcoming March Auction will be held on Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th. Session one, of the two-day auction, will be a single owner auction comprised of property from the Estate of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes. His personal collection includes [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced the sale of The Gunter Sachs Collection, in London on Tuesday, May 22nd and Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012*, Sotheby’s will present for sale close to 300 artworks and objects from the collection of the late Gunter Sachs. Spanning numerous collecting categories, from Surrealism and Nouveau Realism, to Pop Art, Art [Read More]
Bonhams will be participating in Asia Week 2012, which brings together a variety of art outlets to celebrate Asian art from China, India, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Bonhams will highlight this week with three previews and auctions located at its New York headquarters at 580 Madison. The Indian, Himalayan [Read More]
WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY. The catalog for Robert Edward Auctions’ 2012 blockbuster sale will ship on April 16, 2012. As always, the first copy off the presses will be presented to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York for their library, as is REA’s time-honored tradition. The remaining [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will auction Fine Classical Chinese Paintings, on March 22, 2012, the debut sale of this category in Sotheby’s New York March Asia Week series of events. The auction will include a rich and varied selection of fine paintings and calligraphy dating from the 12th century to the 20th century. [Read More]
RM Auctions, announce a selection of stunning new consignments for its Monaco auction at the Grimaldi Forum, scheduled 11th – 12th May during the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique weekend. 948 Ferrari 166 Inter Spyder Corsa. Photo: Tom Wood ©2012 RM Auctions Befitting a sale in such a world-renowned motorsport location, RM [Read More]
Saffronart, India’s leading fine-art auction house, announces a public auction of ‘Carpets and Rugs’ for the first time in India, adding to its repertoire of well-regarded auctions. This sale features 30 lots, including a mix of exquisite Indian, Persian and Central Asian carpets. The 24-hour auction will take place online at www.saffronart.com, [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer the Buhl Collection of photographs in a single-owner sale in New York, on Dec. 12 and 13, 2012. The collection explores the theme of the human hand, encompassing works from the art form’s early 19th century pioneers to the masters of 20th century photography and beyond. It was assembled [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong presents it’s important watches Spring 2012 auction on 4 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. PATEK PHILIPPE Ref. 3939 HR A Very Fine And Rare Pink Gold Minute Repeating Tourbillon Wristwatch With Enamel Dial And Breguet Numerals, 2007. Est. HK$2.8– 3.6 million / US$360,000 – 460,000. [Read More]
Gray’s Auctioneers Fine Furniture, Paintings and Decorations auction takes place on March 15 at 11am in Cleveland, Ohio. Live online bidding for this auction is provided by Live Auctioneers. Offering two sessions, the first for Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Arts at 11am and the second for Fine Books, Autographs and No [Read More]
Christie’s New York will offer Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, on March 22 and 23, including jades, bronzes, sculpture, paintings and furniture. Highlighting the sale is a very rare and important massive gilt-bronze figure of Vairocana from the Ming dynasty (estimate: $2-3 million), which is exceptional for its enormous size, [Read More]
Bonhams next Sporting Gun sale on 4th April at Knightsbridge ioffers a weapon made for a young Indian Prince whose father lost his kingdom in the Punjab and who spent his life shooting and gambling. An unusual 12-bore hammer gun by J. Purdey & Sons, made for Prince Duleep Singh, is estimated [Read More]
The first silver shekel struck in Jerusalem by Jewish forces rebelling against Roman oppression in the first century CE, one of only two specimens known, brought a world record price of $1,105,375 at Heritage Auctions on March 8 as part of the auction of The Shoshana Collection of Ancient Coins of Judea. [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York sale of contemporary art exceeded its pre-sale high estimate of $11.6 million in achieving a strong total of $12,040,750, which marks the highest result for a mid-season sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s since spring 2008. The auction was 79.7% sold by lot, and was led by the Untitled [Read More]
Bonhams announce its Asian Decorative Arts sale, March 13 in San Francisco. The auction will feature a variety of fine items at this 600-plus lot session, over 400 of which are Chinese. The sale will include a broad array of late 20th century huanghuali and hardwood furniture from a Los Angeles collection, [Read More]
A two-page typed Titanic letter and a scarce first-class Titanic deck plan also changed hands. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A rare Punch cigar store advertising figure, cast in zinc and made around 1885 by William Demuth & Company, Mfrs. (N.Y.) knocked down for $37,290 at a massive three-day estate sale held March 1-3 [Read More]
An important Imperial spinach green jade double-gourd ‘San Xi Tang’ seal, of the revered Qianlong period (1736-1795), estimated to sell for over £1m, is one of the outstanding items in Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale on 17th May, in London. The rare double-gourd shaped seal, measuring 8.7cm long, has been authenticated by [Read More]