A selection of ceramics created by Pablo Picasso will feature in the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on 23rd October at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Designed by the artist in the 1950s, the group includes plates, bowls, vases, ashtrays and pitchers modeled in ceramic and terracotta. Estimates are attractive, ranging from just £500-£700 to [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2013
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Highlighted by a selection of long lost masterpieces that have been brought back to public view, the auction will showcase colonial, impressionist and modern paintings. Featured in the sale is Russell Drysdale’s great portrait of Old Larsen (estimate: £550,000-650,000, illustrated above), a headline piece offered that returns to Christie’s forty-two years after [Read More]
Bonhams 16th annual Carmel automotive auction – the longest running sale during the Monterey Peninsula Car Week – was a resounding success with a nearly 90 per cent sale-through rate and nearly $33 million realized. The Bonhams pavilion, situated on the spacious western lawns of Quail Lodge in sunny Carmel Valley, hosted [Read More]
The auction will be held on-site, at the restaurant, by Ahlers & Ogletree, Inc., based in Atlanta. (ATLANTA, Ga.) – Items and equipment from Dante’s Down the Hatch – the iconic Atlanta restaurant and nightclub that stood for more than 30 years in the fashionable Buckhead section of town – will be [Read More]
On September 16, Bonhams will present “Chinese Art from the Scholar’s Studio,” a select group of fine Chinese furniture, paintings, snuff bottles, scholar’s objects and devotional pieces. Bringing together a variety of collecting categories, art from the scholar’s studio focuses on Chinese artworks of exceptional quality that are fresh to the market. [Read More]
Gil Elvgren’s picture-perfect pinup Bare Essentials, a 1957 Brown & Bigelow calendar painting, sold for $137,000 in its auction debut in Heritage Auctions’ $1.3 million Illustration Art event in Dallas. The July 31 auction was led by a bevy of pinup images — with Elvgren sharing just one of the auction’s five [Read More]
The unreserved auction will be headlined by a fine pair of 35-year collections, plus other items. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Two outstanding 35-year collections to be sold without reserve, featuring items in many categories, will be included in a specialty auction slated for Saturday, Sept. 21, at 11 a.m. (EST), by Fontaine’s Auction [Read More]
Prestige dealer group, Harwoods, has signed an exclusive deal with BCA, the UK’s leading vehicle remarketing company, for a weekly sale of high-quality prestige part-exchange cars. From Aston Martins and Audis to MINIs and Jaguars, motorists looking for a luxury or sports model will be able to browse a range of high-end [Read More]
Bonhams auction of Collectors’ Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia at the Beaulieu Autojumble takes place this year on Saturday 8th September. Leading motor car consignments for the auction are two Sunbeams – a 1926 3-liter twin-cam Super Sports (estimate £130,000-£160,000) and a 1912 Coupe de l’Auto replica (£90,000-£120,000). The sale will also [Read More]
Rago Unreserved: September 20 and 21, 2013, sale includes early 20th c. design, original and vintage art, traditional furnishings, tableware, Asian, collectibles, books and ephemera, ethnographic property and coins. Saturday’s sale is all 20th century: modern design, including furniture, lighting rugs, pottery, glass, sculpture, painting, prints and photography. (Previews begin September 14) [Read More]
Julien’s Auctions has announced the rare sale of an original mural from controversial graffiti artist Banksy. Banksy’s “Flower Girl,” which formerly occupied a Los Angeles gas station wall will headline Julien’s Auctions “Street Art” auction to take place Thursday, December 5, 2013 in Beverly Hills. This rare opportunity to own one of [Read More]
Quality consignments are currently being accepted for a fine art auction slated for Thursday, Oct. 24, at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery located at 354 Woodmont Road in Milford. Up to 250 works of art, spanning many genres, will come up for bid. Shannon’s conducts two fine art auctions [Read More]
The auction was timed to coincide with the very popular Iowa Gas Show in Des Moines, Iowa. (DES MOINES, Ia.) – A rare General Gasoline double-sided porcelain transitional sign – showing the iconic Mobil Pegasus logo, signaling Mobil’s acquisition of General Gasoline and establishing its presence in the Western United States – [Read More]
A vibrant oil on canvas of “Wind Swept Pines” on the California Coast by Guy Rose took the top lot spot in Bonhams $2.47 million auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture, August 6 in Los Angeles, simulcast in San Francisco. The painting achieved far more than its $150,000-250,000 estimate, bringing [Read More]
Bonhams New York announce 2013/2014 Season Lecture Series. Timed to coincide with most major auctions held in the New York Galleries, Bonhams will be hosting relevant lectures presented by well-known and highly regarded authors and specialists in specific fields. To kick off the Fall season of lectures, we are pleased to announce [Read More]
As many as 250 works of fine art in many genres will be offered. The sale will start at 6 p.m. (MILFORD, Conn.) – Quality consignments are currently being accepted for a fine art auction slated for Thursday, Oct. 24, at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery located at 354 [Read More]
In its November 18 Antique Arms & Armor and Modern Sporting Guns Auction, Bonhams is pleased to offer a Smith & Wesson No. 2 revolver owned by Wild Bill Hickok that was on him when he was murdered by Jack McCall in Deadwood in 1876. Wild Bill Hickok (James Butler Hickok), 1837-1876, [Read More]
The sale will be held in the 4H Hall of the Sedgwick County Extension Center in Wichita, Kan. (WICHITA, Kan.) – The single-owner lifetime collection of Richard and Linda Popp of Hutchinson, Kansas – serious collectors of Native American artifacts and antiques in many other categories – will be sold on Saturday, [Read More]