Monthly Archives: June 2017

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A SUPERB PATEK PHILIPPE MEN’S CHRONOGRAPH WATCH AND ARTWORKS BY ANNA COLEMAN LADD & JURIJ SOLOVIJ WILL HEADLINE BRUNEAU & CO. SALE

The auction will be held July 22nd in Bruneau’s gallery, at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, R.I. CRANSTON, R.I. – A men’s Patek Philippe platinum perpetual calendar chronograph watch, a large neoclassical bronze sundial sculpture by Anna Coleman Ladd (Am., 1878-1939), and an Expressionist rendition of the Pieta by modern artist Jurij [Read More]

Israel’s Best Artists Use Creative Talents to Support Special Education; Donate Unique 3D Artworks Based on Used Laptops to Raise Funds at Auction

Bidders outside Israel can place bids before the auction Tel Aviv, Israel – The Athena Fund, an Israeli nonprofit empowering Israel’s teachers, announced that more than 50 of Israel’s best artists, have donated their artworks to a charity art auction to benefit Israel’s special education teachers. Each artist received an old laptop [Read More]

THE HISTORIC TROTTER-BYRD ANTEBELLUM HOME IN QUITMAN, MISS., AND ITS CONTENTS OF FINE ANTIQUES, WILL BE SOLD ON-SITE, ON SATURDAY, JUNE 24th

The auction will be conducted by Stevens Auction Company, based in Aberdeen, Mississippi. QUITMAN, Miss. – The only antebellum home in Quitman spared by General Sherman during the Civil War (but only because of a connection to George Washington), plus its outstanding contents of fine antiques, will be sold on-site Saturday, June [Read More]

MORE THAN 1,000 PREMIUM LOTS IN A WIDE ARRAY OF CATEGORIES WILL COME UP FOR BID IN CRESCENT CITY’S NEXT ESTATES AUCTION SLATED FOR JUNE 24-25

Headlining the auction will be early American estate items from Mt. Hope Plantation in Miss. The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – A pair of 20th century Italian-style composition Blackamoor torchieres, a mid-19th century French three-piece gilt [Read More]

PAINTINGS BY FRITZ BULTMAN (Am., 1919-1985) DOMINATE THE LIST OF TOP LOTS AT BRUNEAU & CO.’s SUMMER ANTIQUES & FINE ART AUCTION, JUNE 3rd

Three of the five works by Bultman combine for $55,000; one, titled Cape May II, hit $23,750. The two-session auction was held in Bruneau’s gallery, at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, R.I. CRANSTON, R.I. – Abstract expressionist paintings by American artist Fritz Bultman (1919-1985) dominated the list of top lots at Bruneau [Read More]

OCEAN LINER MEMORABILIA FROM THE ILL-FATED VESSELS TITANIC, ANDREA DORIA AND SS NORMANDIE WILL BE SOLD BY PHILIP WEISS AUCTIONS, JUNE 22

The Monday auction event will be held online and at the firm’s gallery in Lynbrook, N.Y. Also sold will be the superb lifetime coffee advertising collection of Lowell and Barbara Schindler. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – Ocean liner memorabilia will take center stage at Weiss Auctions’ June 22nd sale, as a letter handwritten aboard [Read More]

A PAIR OF OUTSTANDING BOTTLE COLLECTIONS – ONE OF WESTERN WHISKEY FLASKS, THE OTHER HUTCHINSON BOTTLES – WILL HEADLINE HOLABIRD’S 2-SESSION AUCTION, JUNE 16th & 17th, PART OF THE RENO BOTTLE SHOW & SALE

The event will be held at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno; the show is just June 17. RENO, Nev. – A two-session auction featuring a premier selection of rare and vintage bottles – headlined by the Ralph Van Brocklin collection of Western whiskey flasks and the Rod Stock Hutchinson bottle collection [Read More]