Sotheby’s Greek Sale, on Monday, 9 May, 2011, will draw together an exceptional array of Greek art, with important examples of 19th and 20th-century masters such as Constantinos Volanakis, Konstantinos Maleas, and Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika. The sale of 132 lots is estimated to fetch in excess of £4 million. Speaking about the sale, [Read More]
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WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY – The catalog for Robert Edward Auctions’ 2011 blockbuster sale was shipped on April 12, 2011. While most of the auction is baseball-related, also included is a remarkable, unique and extremely historic 1964 Ed Sullivan show schedule signed by all four members of the Beatles. The catalog description follows: [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will hold an Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 May 2011 in New York offering an impressive range of paintings and sculpture from across the period. A spectacular group of 10 paintings by Pablo Picasso will be led by Femmes lisant (Deux personnages), a striking portrait of [Read More]
On Tuesday, May 3 William H. Bunch Auction Gallery will offer nearly 400 paintings and other fine-quality works by American and European artists. Three primary consignors were the source for the vibrant and varied selection of American Impressionist art – including Bucks County/New Hope School; Old Masters and other Continental pictures; and [Read More]
Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, presents ‘Words and Lines’, second in a new series of 24-hour online auctions. This auction features 90 lots, including rare and important publications on Indian artists and drawings by 26 modern Indian artists. The total lower and higher estimates for the Words & Lines [Read More]
WESTHAMPTON, N.Y. – The iconic jacket worn for decades by UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, Julius “Dr. J” Erving’s 1972-73 game-used Virginia Squires ABA road jersey, and the largest selection of players’ Championship rings ever seen in one auction lead the lineup in Grey Flannel’s 2011 Summer Games event. The May 11 [Read More]
Pieces by the most influential British gold and silversmith of the last century, Gerald Benney, are for sale in the Silver Auction (including post-war silver) at Bonhams Knightsbridge on 25 May. It follows the highly successful sale of Benney’s work last December which made more than £150,000. The star lot in May’s [Read More]
Rago Arts and Auction Center’s 2000+ lot three-day weekend marathon auction brought home a whopping $1,552,977 for the auction house and its consignors. The top lot was a Chinese embroidered dragon robe worn by its former owner to local basketball games, which sold for $49,600. Miriam Tucker, Rago partner, agreed. “This sale [Read More]
One of the highlights of Bonhams next 19th Century Paintings sale will be a remarkable watercolour of the Oyster Beds at Whitstable, Kent by the master of colour, light and atmosphere, J.M.W. Turner. It is estimated to sell for £120,000-180,000 when it is offered for auction on 13th July 2011, at Bonhams [Read More]
Social media and video marketing company (Hi-End Marketing, Inc) A California based corporation is holding an asset sale for a portfolio of websites including one of their growing video marketing news sites using one of the worlds largest public auction websites Flippa.com. “VideoMarketingTactics.com was developed in 2007 initially as a place where [Read More]
Sotheby’s London is to auction Skaters, A Scene on Duddingston Loch near Edinburgh by Scottish artist Charles Lees (1800?1880) in its sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Estimated at £100,000?200,000, the painting will make its first known appearance at auction since it was painted in 1853, and [Read More]
The trap, sporting some wicked-looking teeth, was the second-top lot of the 1,700 items offered. (MATTHEWS, N.C.) – A vintage Oneida Newhouse No. 6 bear trap, made in the 1880s and weighing a whopping 43 pounds, with three wicked-looking teeth mounted on each massive jaw, sold for $3,491 in an Internet and [Read More]
As part of the preview for its sale of Hockney Prints on 20 April Bonhams will be showing four films about Hockney’s life and work this Sunday, 17 April at 101 New Bond Street starting at 11.15. The running order is: 11.15. A Bigger Picture (60 mins) 12.15. A Bigger Splash (1 [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will auction the collection of Old Master Paintings, on Thursday 7th July 2011, formed by Saam & Lily Nijstad over the last four decades. Saam Nijstad was for many years a leading dealer in Dutch Old Masters based in The Hague, but he and his wife were also passionate collectors [Read More]
On May 1st, 2011, Nazmiyal Collection will be hosting an exciting online auction featuring a selection of outstanding antique carpets and collectible textile pieces from around the world. This unique collection is comprised of various collectible, decorative and rare carpets and textiles from the 17th century to Mid-Century Modern and Art Deco [Read More]
John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds are expected to fetch more than $200,000 (£122,000) at a Profiles in History, Los Angeles auction on 14 and 15 May, reports the BBC. The sheet, features the song’s third verse and the opening words to She’s Leaving Home. [Read More]
Famous Faces in Sale Also Include Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Nelson Mandella and Mike Tyson Four images of the celebrated Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs Sale on 19 May 2011. Three of the pictures – Picasso in front of [Read More]
Baldwin’s bi-annual London auctions are always a highlight of the numismatic calendar but this, the first of the year, will be a Great British spectacular! The 2-day auction will be held over the 3rd and 4th May and comprises a sensational array of British rarities, together with a selection of Russian numismatic [Read More]