Christie’s is to auction a picture of Christ Carrying the Cross by Girolamo Romanino. The painting is a masterpiece of Girolamo Romanino’s fully mature style and among the most potent and moving depictions of the theme in 16th century Italian art. The painting will highlight Christie’s Old Master Paintings sale on June [Read More]
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William Adolphe Bouguereau’s sublime Fishing For Frogs, 1882, is expected to bring $1,500,000+ as the offering on the European side of Heritage Auctions’ May 15 Signature® American & European Art Auction, taking place at Heritage’s Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street, while Eastman Johnson’s lyrical Child at Prayer, circa 1873, is [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer, the collection and stock of W/S Fine Art and Andrew Wyld (1949 – 2011). This fine single-owner collection celebrates the Golden Age of British Watercolours and will be offered in two parts. Part one will take place in King Street on 10 July [Read More]
The auction will be held Monday, May 28, at the Jefferson Civic Center in Jefferson, Georgia. (JEFFERSON, Ga.) – Dozens of examples of highly collectible Southern pottery by such renowned artisans as Dave the Slave, Thomas Chandler, W.T.B. Gordy and others will be sold on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, by Cagle [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will hold a live auction of Fine Wines on May 3rd in its Boston gallery. Following the event, a second offering of lots will be offered on May 4th through May 13th exclusively online with Skinner’s new timed auction platform. Through its partnership with Lower Falls Wine [Read More]
Including a DRC offering from The Fox Cellar and an astounding collection of mature Bordeaux from the estate of Clarence Day (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in America, will hold an exciting Auction of Finest and Rarest Wines on May 11th and 12th in [Read More]
Bonhams announce it will hold three auctions of Native American Art, June 4-5, in San Francisco: The Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk Collection of Native American Art, The G. Lorenzo Fritz Collection of Historic Native American Photographs and a various owners sale of Fine Native American Art. The auctions cumulatively will feature about [Read More]
Bonhams is to sell the selected contents of Stobhall Castle, one of the ancestral seats of the Drummond family and, until recently, the home of Viscount Strathallan, heir to the Earldom of Perth. The sale will take place at Bonhams auction rooms at 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh on 2 May. Among the [Read More]
A 1972 Avanti II Coupé originally owned by Raymond Loewy, the designer of the Coca-Cola bottle, Gray Hound bus, Air Force One livery and the Avanti Coupé, is one of the highlights of prestigious ‘Les Grandes Marques à Monaco’ sale held by Bonhams in Monte Carlo on the 11th May. Estimated to [Read More]
Bréal’s Silver Cup, the winner’s cup from the first ever competitive Marathon race, held at the first Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, broke the world record price for an item of Olympic memorabilia sold at auction, selling within the Vintage Posters & Olympic Icons auction at Christie’s South Kensington for [Read More]
A rare 15th century gold ring, discovered by a metal detector in Redditch, Worcestershire is estimated to sell for £4,000 ? 6,000 in the Fine Jewellery sale, taking place on the 25th April at Bonhams, London. The gold, marriage ring is engraved on the outside with the inscription ‘iea do re’ (Je [Read More]
Outstanding works by British, Irish and Scottish artists will lead Sotheby’s sale of British and Irish Art in London on Thursday, 10 May 2012. The company is redesigning its traditional auctions of Victorian and Edwardian Art, and Irish Art and these sales will be retitled British and Irish Art: Victorian–Early 20th Century–Sporting [Read More]
The three-day weekend event was held at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – A rare Cigar Store Indian figure, beautifully carved in the 1880s by the renowned artisan Samuel Robb, sold for $94,400 at a three-day auction event held March 30-April 1 by Showtime Auction Services. [Read More]
A 1982 gelatin silver print of Nastassia Kinski and the Serpent, 1981 by famed photographer Richard Avedon is expected to bring $50,000+ when it comes to auction on May 1 in New York as part of Heritage Auctions’ Photographs Signature® Auction, taking place at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America), 2 [Read More]
Material Culture, the city’s popular 60,000-sq.-ft. showplace for antiques, textiles and handcrafted decorative arts, will introduce its new auction division on May 5, 2012 with a 500-lot sale titled “New World Orders.” All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers.com. Material Culture’s wealth of experience and [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of the principle contents of Mill Farm, Gloucestershire, the home of the late Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. Known as ‘Paddy’ to his friends, Sir Patrick was a legendary travel writer and extraordinary war hero who was once described as ‘a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer A First Edition Japanese Vellum copy of Oscar Wilde’s greatest work, The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People in the sale of The Library of Jaques Levy, on 20 April in New York. Mr. Levy acquired the piece in 1946 and it has remained in [Read More]
Christie’s announced the auction of an exceptional selection of six important works by Gerhard Richter at its Post-War and Contemporary Sale on May 8, 2012. This major comprehensive grouping includes works from the 60’s to the 90’s and is estimate to realize more than $40 million. Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Farbschlieren. Signed, [Read More]