The three-day event will be held at the Hilton Hotel & Conference Center in West Palm Beach. (WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) – Around 1,600 quality lots in a wide range of collecting categories will be sold at the fifth annual Palm Beach Auction slated for Feb. 15-17 by Louis J. Dianni, LLC. [Read More]
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Christie’s Education offers collectors and the simply curious two-day immersion courses in advance of Asian Art Week in March and its Magnificent Jewels sale in April. Both courses include classroom and field studies, such as private tours of Chinese art exhibits, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Ink Art: Past as Present [Read More]
Bonhams will hold an auction of Entertainment Memorabilia in its Los Angeles salesroom, on January 26, featuring many alluring items once belonging to Hollywood’s award-winning elite. Items connected to film legend Katharine Hepburn include her 1990 Kennedy Center Honors (est. $8,000-12,000), her 1982 BAFTA award for On Golden Pond ($3,000-5,000), and a [Read More]
Important Private Cellar with Remarkable Provenance and Brimming with Exciting Rarities Expected to Realize Over $6M Featuring 740 bottles from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti; extensive offerings of Leroy, Rousseau, Leflaive, and verticals of First Growth Bordeaux & Château Pétrus spanning 32 vintages; provenance supported by extensive original receipts from purchases made in [Read More]
The two-day auction event will be held Jan. 17 and 18 at Stevens’ gallery in Aberdeen, Miss. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – Stevens Auction Company will kick off the New Year in grand style with a big auction event Jan. 17-18, featuring more than 1,000 select and rare antiques from prominent Southern estates, plus [Read More]
Used car values continue to rise in the used car market according to the latest Pulse report from British Car Auctions (BCA) as average values reached a new high in December 2013. With new car sales for December reported by the SMMT today also showing continued growth, BCA’s data reveals that used [Read More]
The only known existing example of a rare Waterman “Three Snakes” Sterling Silver Fountain Pen achieved $37,500 on December 18, leading the Fine Writing Instruments auction at Bonhams New York. The pen, circa 1888-98, features six genuine emerald eyes and is one of the earliest Waterman pens. It sold ahead of its [Read More]
Frank Maraschiello, Vice President and Director of 20th Century Decorative Arts, North America, announced the appointment of Dan Tolson as Director of 20th Century Decorative Art and Design in Los Angeles. Frank comments, “We welcome Dan Tolson to our Los Angeles office and 20th Century Decorative Art and Design Department. His strong [Read More]
A standing room only crowd of committed Chinese buyers bid on lot after lot to multiples of their estimates at the Bonhams Fine Chinese Works of Art auction in San Francisco on December 17. This session, part of a two-day auction of Chinese and Asian Decorative Art, featured fine jades and scholar’s [Read More]
To coincide with the launch of Peter Harris and Shirley Reiff Howarth’s new book, A CELEBRATION OF CORPORATE ART Programs WORLDWIDE, Bonhams is holding an exhibition in their impressive new galleries at 101 New Bond Street of works of art and paintings on loan from leading corporate collections from across Europe. The [Read More]
Garth’s Auctions (based in Delaware, Ohio) is keeping buyers busy with multiple sessions during the last weekend of January. The sales will include over 900 lots offered in four sessions: January 23 Asian Art, January 24 European and American Fine & Decorative Arts, January 25 American and European Paintings & Fine Art, [Read More]
The only Fr. 1215d $500 1882 Federal Reserve Gold Certificate known to exist other than a specimen in the public collection at the Smithsonian Institution is expected to bring $2+ million in Heritage Auctions’ Florida United Numismatists Currency Signature Auction Jan. 8-10 and Jan. 13 in Orlando, Fla. It comes from the [Read More]