Bonhams, the global fine art and antiques auctioneer with offices in 25 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia, today announces strong growth in revenues and profits in every territory for the financial year to 31 December, 2013. Financial Highlights • Revenues £127m • Gross Profit £91m • Adjusted Operating Profit £25m* [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
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A special auction of over 200 Lots of medals and militaria is being held in Lichfield next week, (Wednesday 26th March). The auction has been organised and content sourced by Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of WWI. There are over one hundred Lots of medals/decorations [Read More]
The sale, which grossed more than $225,000, was held at AIA’s offices in Fort Lee, N.J. (FORT LEE, N.J.) – More than 1,000 lots of rare and highly collectible U.S. and worldwide banknotes, scripophily and security printing ephemera were offered at a live and internet auction held March 11 at Archives International [Read More]
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Freeman’s, America’s oldest auction house, is continuing to expand. After successfully launching regional offices in Charlottesville, Va., and Boston, Mass., three new hires will now focus attention on other regions. Freeman’s was founded in Philadelphia in 1805. Matthew S. Wilcox, former Vice President of Trusts & Estates at Freeman’s, [Read More]
The Apex Postal Auction 131 will close at 2.00pm on Thursday April 24th with 6000 lots to be knocked down. There are the usual selections of world, Commonwealth and GB collections, sets and singles, and a number of lots from the stock of a GB Dealer, the late Mike Holt. In November [Read More]
Prayer in the Mount of Olives, a major work by the Greek Modernist painter Constantinos Parthenis (1878-1967), leads the Greek Art Sale in London on the 9th of April. It is estimated at £300,000-500,000. Painted in 1930, Prayer in the Mount of Olives is an outstanding example of Parthenis’ mature style which [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Thursday 13th March Bibliophile sale saw a group of 59 tinted lithographs of France, Italy and Sicily sell for £2,108 alongside antiquarian books and manuscripts covering subjects from architecture to zoology. The fascinating lithographs, from the late 19th century, [Lot 101] were succeeded by a series of views [Read More]
Whilst the art market were preparing to indulge in Asia Week New York, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions celebrated Asian works of art in their Wednesday 12th March Interiors sale. The sale saw unwavering bidders pushing prices high, and suggesting there is no remission in the booming Asian art market. A Chinese bronze [Read More]
A selection of ecclesiastical books from the collection of clergyman and controversialist, Joseph Mendham, will be sold by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ on Thursday 20th March 2014. Born in London, Joseph Mendham was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating BA in 1792, and MA in 1795. It was here that he [Read More]
Bonhams Space History sale on April 8 will feature nearly 300 artifacts related to decades of international space exploration, including genuine spacesuits, critical flight items from the famed Apollo 11 mission, lunar-flown American flags, rare photographs and astronauts’ personal effects. Two top lots in the sale are from Apollo 11, the first [Read More]
Around 600 lots in an eclectic mix of categories came up for bid. The auction grossed $250,000. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – A rare and historic British presentation sword and scabbard from 1813 soared to $27,060 and a 75-million-year-old dinosaur egg nest with seven eggs sold for $17,915 at a 600-lot estate sale held [Read More]
A collection of 56 unseen working proof prints by one of Britain’s most famous artists and sculptors, Henry Moore (1898-1986), will be offered for sale as part of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints on Thursday 27th March. Collected by Moore’s master printer, Michael Rand, lots 116-172 from [Read More]
Bonhams American Art sale on May 21 will feature a long-lost 1771 portrait of Captain Gabriel Maturin by John Singleton Copley, one of approximately 25 portraits by the artist painted during his six-month sojourn in New York City four years prior to the American Revolution (est. $500,000-700,000). The portrait was recorded in [Read More]
A single bottle of 1934 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Richebourg Vieux Cépages, one of the rarest and most important bottles of wine in the world, may bring more than $50,000 when it crosses the block at Heritage Auctions on March 21. The bottle is being offered as the cover lot of the [Read More]
The only known copy of an almost 7-foot-tall movie poster for the 1947 reissue of Dracula could sell for $40,000 when it crosses the block March 22-23 in Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction in Dallas. The fearsome three sheet poster showing a lecherous Bela Lugosi ready to strike his next [Read More]
An early 19th century German Empire mahogany temple-form roll-top desk intricately fitted with hidden drawers and compartments sold for $35,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 21-23 Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Signature Auction in Dallas. The $2.3 million sale featured more than 1,700 lots spanning 200 years of design. “We saw [Read More]
Christie’s announce the forthcoming sale of Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints, which will be held on Wednesday, 19 March 2014, and is set to attract buyers and collectors from around the world. The sale offers a vibrant and varied range of works from the late 15th century to the present day [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will be holding a sale of Fine Clocks, Barometers, Scientific Instruments & Horological Books, on Tuesday 11th March. It will include a highly important Charles II small ebonised architectural eight-day longcase clock by Joseph Knibb circa 1655-7, one of the most important early English longcase clocks to come [Read More]