Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Paintings Spring Sale 2012 achieved HK$468 million / US$60 million more than doubling the pre=sale estimate (in excess of HK$200 million / US$25.6 million*). The top lot of the sale was an exceptionally rare, large pair of gold screens by Qi Baishi, Willows At The Riverside; Begonias [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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Christie’s will present the spring sale of Fine Musical Instruments, on April 26. Comprised of 109 lots, the sale will focus on classical instruments, with a particular emphasis on impressive bows, including examples created by master craftsmen, François Xavier Tourte and Jean Baptiste Vuillaume. Highlighting the selection of bows is a gold [Read More]
Sotheby’s announce sale of Important Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art to be held at Paris on April 20 The auction comprises some 220 lots, including lacquered furniture; a rare carpet from the Manufacture de la Savonnerie; superb furniture from the Empire period; ivories; and exceptional medieval and Renaissance stained glass. Rare [Read More]
The event will be held in the Historic Buford Hall, located at 112 East Shadburn Ave. in Buford. (BUFORD, Ga.) – A weekend sale featuring 1,500 lots of folk art in a wide array of genres will be held April 21-22 by Slotin Auction in the Historic Buford Hall, located at 112 [Read More]
Richmond Hill, ON – 888 Auctions will conduct an Asian Antiques & Estates auction on Thursday, April 26th. The 450 lot sale will be held at 888 Auctions’ saleroom gallery and will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern. The auction will showcase an enticing collection of Asian art and antiques including but not [Read More]
Dedham , MA- Never before has the Dedham gallery of Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers been so alive and filled to capacity, as it was for the March 24th auction of property from the Estate of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes. The large collection of fine art, antiques furniture [Read More]
Chinese ceramics provided some of the highest prices at a recent Fine Art & Silver Auction held in Lichfield last week. The craze for all things oriental continues with demand largely from new wealth in China prompted by a desire to buy back heritage. Richard Winterton’s Fine Art Sale (29th March) comprised [Read More]
Sotheby’s Orientalist Sale in London on 24 April 2012 presents important works depicting Turkey, The Middle East and North Africa, the auction will be led by masterpieces by the Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky and the Turkish painter and polymath Osman Hamdy Bey. The Scholar by Osman Hamdy Bey, oil on canvas, 1878, [Read More]
The auction event will be held online, as well as at Shannon’s gallery, located in Milford, Conn. (MILFORD, Conn.) – Over 150 examples of high-quality fine American and European paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints will cross the block on Thursday, April 26, at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery located [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong two-day Spring wine sale series concluded with a combined total of HK$63.6 million / US$8.2 million. The two sales – The Classic Cellar From A Great American Collector IX and Finest & Rarest Wines, Including The Bordeaux Winebank Collection and Wines Direct From Château Angélus, Louis Roederer and Colgin [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of The Madoura Collection of Picasso Ceramics – the last ever opportunity for collectors to purchase these works by Picasso directly from where they were made, at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris, France. The Collection is offered for sale by Alain Ramié, a friend and colleague of Picasso’s [Read More]
Mosby & Co. Presents two exciting Spring sales on Saturday April 28th, 2012 and Saturday May 26th, 2012. April’s sale has a great mix and variety of Posters, porcelain, paintings and prints along with toys, advertising, folk art and Americana. Over 100 pieces of carved Soapstone, Porcelain from KPM, Rosenthal and others. [Read More]
An early Indian lacquered ivory figural chess set is one of the highlights of the Chess and Games sale taking place on the 1st May at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Made in Rajasthan circa 1850, the set is estimated to sell for £7,000 – 9,000 and represents the British East India Company versus Indian [Read More]
Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc., will host a police marathon auction featuring vehicles, jewelry, tools, city surplus, school district supplies and equipment, electronics, appliances, computers, commercial equipment, restaurant equipment, sporting goods, household items, furniture and much more on Saturday, March 31, 2012. Items of interest for this Arizona auction include: king [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced that their sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings in Paris on 21 June 2012 will feature a very rare work of art by the most important pastellist of the 18th century, Jean Etienne Liotard. Estimated between 300.000 and 400.000 € (400.000-530.000)*. Jean Etienne Liotard, Portrait of [Read More]