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On Tuesday, 30 March, 2010 Sotheby’s London will offer a range of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints. Printmaking has been at the heart of artistic production for over 500 years. The spring sale will present an exciting opportunity to acquire works by a group of important Old Master artists such as [Read More]

Streambank, LLC, an advisory firm specializing in the sale of intangible assets, today announced that a bid deadline and auction date have been finalized for the sale of the intangible assets of American IronHorse Motorcycles, the Fort Worth, Texas-based volume manufacturer of V-twin motorcycles. Bids may be entered until 5:00 p.m. EDT, [Read More]

As a finale to the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the museum will auction works donated to benefit the museum’s exhibition programming, now on view in the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Matthew Ritchie (b. 1964, London), The House of GI–A Proposal, 2009. Ink on vellum paper, 72.1 x [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts on March 29, 2010 in Los Angeles. The 500-lot sale will offer an array of works for varied tastes and collecting levels from the 16th through the 20th centuries with a focus on English, French, Italian, Spanish and German property. Highlights [Read More]

This spring, Christie’s will present “Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection” as a highlight of its major sales of Impressionist and Modern Art, American Paintings, and 20th Century Decorative Arts. Featuring over 175 exceptional items from the collections of fine art dealer Bernard Goldberg’s New York gallery, highlights of the sales will [Read More]

Michael Sovern, Chairman of Sotheby’s, has announced that James Murdoch had been unanimously nominated by the Board of Directors of Sotheby’s to stand for election as a Director of Sotheby’s at the Company’s May 6, 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. “James has impressive experience in several important areas that will be immensely [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold the Fine Chinese Paintings 2010 Spring Sale on 6 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Building on the success of the thematic collections offered in previous seasons, Sotheby’s will again present distinguished private collections that boast immaculate provenance and quality this spring. The collections [Read More]

Christie’s will offer a large-scale masterpiece by Yves Klein at the auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on the evening of 11 May 2010. ANT 93, Le Buffle (“The Buffalo”), 1960-61, is a monumental work from the artist’s celebrated Anthropométrie series that stands over 9 feet wide (70 x [Read More]

To coincide with the 2010 ‘L’année de la Russie en France’, Sotheby’s announced that it will exhibit important works from its forthcoming sales of Russian Art in New York (April 2010) and London (June 2010) at its Paris Saleroom from March 4th to March 9th, 2010. The exhibition of around 25 paintings [Read More]

A rare, numbers-matching 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe 427 and a highly original 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible, are among the quality automobiles RM Auctions’ will offer at the Classic Car Auction of Michigan event, held at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, April 24 and 25, 2010. “This year’s event line-up [Read More]

It was announced today that Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. has been chosen to conduct a 3 million dollar inventory reduction auction for North Point Watersports of Mooresville, NC. North Point Watersports sells the very popular MasterCraft Ski Boats, Manitou Pontoons, Rinker and Formula Yachts. North Point Watersports is one of the [Read More]

Long underwear, a petticoat and christening gowns, a 1940 Pennsylvania license plate and a candle-dipping wheel are among the more than 1,600 items that the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, or PHMC, no longer needs and will place up for auction on March 6. Railroad buffs and model train collectors should be [Read More]

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – Nearly 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise from prominent local estates will be sold at a Fine & Decorative Arts Cataloged Auction slated for Saturday, Mar. 20, at 9 a.m., by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The sale will be held at the firm’s state-of-the-art showroom, located at [Read More]

Sotheby’s Paris will offer for sale an ensemble of 600 historic sculptures and interior/exterior decorative objects (statues, fireplaces, garden furniture, park and garden ornaments) from Origines – specialists in France’s architectural heritage from the Gothic period to the 20th century. Auction on 31 March & 1 April. Origines are based in Le [Read More]

As part of the specialised sales on offer in South Kensington, Christie’s announced the upcoming Antiquities sale, to be held on 29 April 2010. The first Christie’s sale composed by Georgiana Aitken since her appointment as head of the Antiquities department in November 2009 is set to excite international collectors and connoisseurs [Read More]

Masudaya’s multi-action Target Robot smashed a world auction record for an example of its type when it hit the bull’s-eye at $52,900. The boxy tinplate alien invader – complete with original box and shooting accessories – took top-lot honors in Dan Morphy’s Feb. 26-27 sale, which grossed $1,070,000 (all prices quoted inclusive [Read More]