The auction included 27 works by 26 of today’s most prominent artists, many of which were created specifically for this cause. Four world auction records were obtained and 2 works of art were sold for over one million dollars, Marlene Dumas at $2,000,000 and Luc Tuymans at $1,150,000, with many lots realizing [Read More]
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Sotheby’s London announced that it will offer for sale a remarkable group of more than 220 newly-discovered photographs by Linnaeus Tripe depicting India and Burma in the mid-1850s, including 42 images of which no other prints are recorded, and five previously unknown photographs. Tripe was one of the greatest photographers working in [Read More]
Nicholls Auction Marketing Group, Inc., (www.nichollsauction.com) announces the auction of Furrlong Stables – a turnkey racing stable facility on 10 acres – on September 30, at 2 pm, in Harpers Ferry WV, according to John Nicholls, company President. “We are honored to have been entrusted by Robert “Tuffy” Furr to market and [Read More]
Further to the success of valuation days in 2009 and 2010 Bonhams Auctioneers in London is mounting a campaign in Southport to unearth important rock and roll and film memorabilia for the forthcoming 15 December 2011 Entertainment Memorabilia sale in their London salerooms. The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix [Read More]
Doyle New York’s Asian Works of Art auction on September 12, 2011 attracted intense competition from an international audience of bidders in the crowded salesroom, on the telephones, and live on the Internet. In all, the sale totaled a strong $2,805,906 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,228,400-3,299,100 with 63% sold by lot [Read More]
Works by street artist Banksy were auctioned on 21 September 2011 at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Urban Art sale. Leading the sale was a work featuring one of Banksy’s most iconic images, the monkey, entitled Monkey Detonator, which had attracted a pre-sale estimate of £70,000 – 90,000, and [Read More]
Christie’s New York will offer an extraordinary selection of 19th Century European Art Including Orientalist, Sporting and Maritime Paintings, on October 12. The sale will present exquisite examples of the classic tradition of Europe as well as the exotic allure of the Orient, and will feature some of the most sought-after artists [Read More]
Christie’s presents the Autumn Evening Sale Faces of the New China: An Important Private Collection, which leads the 2011 Hong Kong Autumn season of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art sales from 26 to 27 November. Presented as a stand-alone sale within the prestigious Evening Sale and with a total estimate in [Read More]
RM are to auction the world’s oldest running motor car, a historic 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout as part of RM Auctions Hershey, Pennsylvania sale on October 6 – 7, 2011. 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout Commissioned by French entrepreneur, Count de Dion, and [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company will auction auction an extraordinary collection of Swatch watches. One of the most complete collections of its kind, this fascinating assembly of more than 4,350 items includes a large number of prototypes, hybrids and production variants never offered for sale. Many of the rare prototypes date from [Read More]
LEGACY OF A BLACK COUNTRY BOXING LEGEND The Welter-weight Boxer Joe Attwood (1890-1975) is a Black Country sporting legend who could hold his own in any fistic company – from a bar room brawl to the London Sporting Club. He spent his early days in fairground boxing booths before becoming a professional. [Read More]
Gray’s Auctioneers Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations auction on September 27, at 11am EST will feature the sale of property from the personal collection of Cleveland luminaries Maxeen & John Flower. The proceeds from the sale of the collection will benefit the Cleveland Institute of Art, Maxeen Stone Flower’s alma mater. Highlights [Read More]
The Daniels collection of antique and vintage phones has been consigned to Morphy Auctions, where it will be apportioned into three subsequent General Antiques auctions, the first of which will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15, 2011. The phones will open the second session. “Many of Bill Daniels’ [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York announces that four masterworks by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still (1904-1980) will headline Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The four paintings come from the Estate of Patricia Still and are being sold by the City and County of Denver. They are expected [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer for sale on Tuesday 4 October 2011 the third and final selection of works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT). The thread of the sale: Pop art, Op art, Photography, Conceptual Art, Zero and 20th Century British Art by a varied [Read More]
The Titanic archive will be offered on the first day of the three-day sale, in Oceanside, N.Y. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A historically significant, museum-quality archive of material pertaining to the doomed ocean liner the RMS Titanic will be offered on the first day of a three-day multi-estate sale planned for Oct. 21-23 [Read More]
InterAsia Auctions’ upcoming sale will take place on September 23-26. As you will notice, the sale will now take place over 4 days – September 23-26-because of the sheer volume of lots, again at the Park Lane Hotel in Hong Kong. The over 3,500 lots are their largest offering ever and represent [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces that the forthcoming Russian Art Sale Series this November will be highlighted by an Important Private Collection of Works by Alexander Benois. The 130 lot sale features exquisite works on paper spanning the artist’s lifetime and artistic oeuvre. Fifty-two highlights from the collection will be on view at Sotheby’s Paris [Read More]