The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, along with Drs. James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, for “…their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material,” or what would become known as DNA, [Read More]
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Heritage Auctions, has announced the addition of Luxury Real Estate auctions to its growing portfolio of 30+ Auction categories. Unlike traditional real estate listings, sellers with Heritage Luxury Real Estate Auctions work with experts to maintain control over the entire sale, setting the date, marketing strategy, and terms of the auction. Selling [Read More]
A collection of 58 tiny Japanese netsuke figurines is expected to command big price’s at Bonhams 16 May auction of the Adrienne Barbanson Collection in London. Bonhams achieved a world record for this art form when a single netsuke went for £265,000 at a recent sale. The Japanese are known as masters [Read More]
French and Italian masters will take center stage in Bonhams upcoming May 8 European Paintings auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. The offerings will include several notable Costume Paintings from the 19th century – a time when industry and technology were storming forward at a thunderous pace in Europe, leading artists to [Read More]
In all, 156 pieces will come under the gavel in Milford, Conn. Internet bidding by Artfact.com. (MILFORD, Conn.) – An exceptional painting by the renowned American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935) is just one in a last-minute flurry of important consignments slated for auction on Thursday, April 25th, by Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, [Read More]
Bonhams announce its California and Western Paintings and Sculpture auction, April 30 in Los Angeles, and simulcast in San Francisco. It will be led by Granville Redmond’s “Spring in Southern California” (est. $400,000-600,000). The work serves as an iconic example of California plein air painting, depicting flowers, oaks and mountains in Redmond’s [Read More]
The warehouse style auction was a much loved Cleveland tradition and Gray’s aims to bring it back to life this spring. Every lot in the auction has a reserve at or under $500, with the majority of items starting well below $100. First-time auction goers, young professionals, students with new digs to [Read More]
Turner Classic Movies and Bonhams, auctioneers and appraisers, have teamed up to present an appraisal event and exhibition at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival. Bonhams’ roster of experts in classic Hollywood memorabilia from their London and Los Angeles offices will be present at the film festival to provide free appraisals of [Read More]
Baldwin’s are delighted to be able to offer for sale in their Islamic Coin Auction 24, the superb Horus Collection of coins from the Islamic World. Comprising a total of 1,193 coins, the collection in its entirety will be sold by public auction in London on the 9 May this year. This [Read More]
Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers of Delaware, Ohio is pleased to announce the addition of Firearms and English Furniture and Decorative Arts Specialist, David Jackson. David Jackson, Firearms & English Furniture/Decorative Arts specialist, Garth’s newest team member. A native of Lancashire, England, David comes to Garth’s with a lifelong passion for antiques including [Read More]
One of the horse shoes that Red Rum wore to victory in the 1977 Grand National is to be sold at collecting website Picollecta.com The 1977 Grand National victory ensured Red Rum became the first racehorse to win the gruelling 4½ mile steeplechase three times. The horse shoe was originally donated by [Read More]
Bonhams announce that its 20th Century Decorative Arts auction, April 3 in Los Angeles, achieved more than $1.5 million, with nearly 90% of lots sold by value. Leading the auction was a 75-inch tall example of Dandelion, circa 1966, by Harry Bertoia, which sold for $152,500. The gilded stainless steel and granite [Read More]
The event will feature both live and silent auctions, providing the opportunity to purchase works by internationally renowned artists such as Jim Campbell, Vija Celmins, Mark Hagen, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, Analia Saban, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol, along with a growing list of other photographs, paintings, drawings, and design objects from [Read More]
It’s being billed as a May Opportunity Auction and it could be their most important one ever. (WOODSTOCK, Conn.) – An impressive selection of over 200 antique bottles, flasks and more from several prominent collections will be offered in absentee Internet auction #104 slated for May 13-22 by Norman C. Heckler & [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – April 4, 2013 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of Asian Works of Art on April 20th in its Boston gallery. The spring auction features various art forms from China, Japan and Korea including Chinese textiles and Tibetan artifacts, as well as paintings, rhinoceros cups, furniture, porcelain, and [Read More]
Some of the most sought after and respected names in midcentury furniture and design will be featured at Clarke Auction on April 14th 2013. The extensive arrangement of midcentury furniture and design includes important selections from designers and craftsmen Mies van der Rhoe ,T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, George Nakashima, Paul McCobb, Tommi Parzinger, Ray [Read More]
Bonhams’ Made in California: Contemporary Art auction, held April 2 in Los Angeles, and simulcast to San Francisco, was a resounding success, breaking four world records for works by Ronald Davis, Ed Moses, Hassel Smith and Jack Zajac, and achieving $1.35 million with 90% of lots sold and 94% sold by value. [Read More]
The first of more than 1,200 original dies and hubs cut by satirist and engraver Karl Xaver Goetz, one of Germany’s most prolific medal artists of the 20st century, will be offered without reserve beginning April 17-22 at Heritage Auctions’ World & Ancient Coin Signature® Auction during the Chicago International Coin Fair [Read More]