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Christie’s announced that it will offer at auction this spring in New York major works from the collection of the late Michael Crichton. Best-selling author and screenwriter, film director and producer, Crichton is renowned for his terrifying and sometimes controversial scientific thrillers such as The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, The Lost [Read More]

At High Noon’s 20th Anniversary Show & Auction held January 30 & 31, 2010 in Mesa, Arizona, 150+ dealers reaped the benefits of record attendance propelled by the Roy Rogers Museum consignment to the popular Saturday evening auction. At the end of an exciting evening, just shy of $1.8 million was realized [Read More]

Six of Austin Art Space’s resident artists have joined together to support services that enhance the independence and quality of life for older adults. Each artist has donated a work that will be auctioned off by the Faith in Action Caregivers-Southwest Austin on February 18, 2010. Other auction items include prized wines [Read More]

On February 9th, seventy eight years of breadstick manufacturing in the Bronx will come to a close with the public auction sale of equipment from the Stella D’oro baking headquarters on West 237th Street. This announcement follows years’ worth of struggle between the new owners of the facility and the employees, whom [Read More]

The California Department of General Services fleet division is in the midst of auctioning 50 vehicles online; its largest ever online vehicle auction. The auction will close on February 10, 2010. Participants must register with the site in order to bid on available vehicles. This is the first wave of statewide online [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to present the extensive archives of the New York theatrical agency, American Play Company (APC)/ Century Play Company (CPC), including correspondence, contracts, company records, and theatrical scripts covering the first two quarters of the 20th century (est. $120,000-180,000), during the Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that the Company signed on several marquis heavy equipment, farm machinery and truck auctions during the month of January. The addition of Blackmon Auctions, PacLease Truck Sales, Weeks Auction Co., JD Equipment Inc., Biliske Schuster Auctioneers, and Fastline to Proxibid’s [Read More]

Christie’s London announced Architectural Heritage: The Adrian and Suzy Puddy Collection , to be held on Wednesday, 10 March 2010. The sale will include 220 lots of fine antique garden statuary and ornaments, handcarved natural limestone chimneypieces and paneling, with estimates ranging from £500 to £40,000; the collection is expected to realize [Read More]

An incredible archive of Dr Who memorabilia comprising monsters, costumes and props from the BBC is to be sold by Bonhams, Knightsbridge on 24 February 2010 at 2pm, with funds raised from the sale to be used to help finance future series of Dr Who. As the world’s longest running science fiction [Read More]

Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, announces “A Bid to Save the Earth” Green Auction. This first-of-its-kind charity auction will take place on April 22, 2010 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The Evening Sale event will be held at Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, New York and be carried [Read More]

At Sotheby’s, Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for £65,001,250 / $104,327,006 /€74,185,983 becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The sale of that work was swiftly followed by that of Gustav Klimt’s Kirche in Cassone, which made £26,921,250 / $43,208,606/ €30,725,246 – a [Read More]

The South African flag signed by South Africa’s three most recent presidents – Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and F. W. de Klerk – which flew from a helicopter at the historic presidential inauguration on 10th May 1994, will be sold at Bonhams South African Art Sale in London on 24th March. This [Read More]

Great Rock Auctions, a leading premium real estate auction firm, today announced the March 3rd auction of two Beacon Hill new construction luxury properties. “For the first time in Boston real estate history, buyers have the opportunity to bid their price on two spectacular Beacon Hill homes,” said Jeremy Freid, Principal of [Read More]

(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – An exceedingly rare group of three distinguished awards given to World War I German flying ace Adolf Ritter von Tutschek soared to $28,250 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 23-24 by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting and fishing, militaria and collectibles site. The group was the top [Read More]

Attracting both new and seasoned collectors alike, Christie’s First Open sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art will offer a stimulating selection of paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures on March 11. Presenting an exciting mid-season collecting opportunity, First Open showcases works by some of the most desired contemporary artists of our time, including [Read More]

On February 12th, Freeman’s Auctioneers will offer for sale at auction 374 lots of contemporary artworks of the former global financial services firm, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI). The artworks are from the offices of the former global financial services firm and the sale represents the remainder of the Lehman property to [Read More]

Auction will be conducted by Hal Hunt Auctions at the firm’s gallery facility in Northport, Ala. (NORTHPORT, Ala.) – Contents from the historic Annesdale mansion-villa in Memphis, Tenn., plus several other private Southern collections and a marvelous collection of antique guns, will be sold Saturday, March 13, at 10 a.m., by Hal [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Rock Island Auction Company has selected the Company as its exclusive provider of live, online bidding for its upcoming firearms auction. The two-day live auction will take place Saturday, February 27 and Sunday, February 28 at 10:00 a.m. CST [Read More]