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]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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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]
(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]
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]