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(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – A Chalmers Catawba wine bitters bottle graded 9.8 for condition and considered one of the top five western bitters known, sold for $ 19,600 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 18 by American Bottle Auctions (www.AmericanBottle.com). The bottle was the top lot in a sale that [Read More]

Over the course of his 50-year career, antiques dealer Peter Tillou has helped to build some of the finest private collections of art and antiques in the U.S. Admired for his deep passion and relentless pursuit of knowledge about the items he sells, Mr. Tillou is a sought-after expert on an array [Read More]

Concierge Auctions (www.conciergeauctions.com), the leading luxury real estate auction company, today announced the sale of Cher’s home in the exclusive Hualalai Resort in Hawaii to a buyer from Arizona for $8.72 million. The January 18 auction included the successful sale of five properties in Kona, Hawaii, for a total of more than [Read More]

On January 18, 2010 Gateway Gallery Auction held it’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday auction, which consisted of an eclectic mix of fine antiques and artwork. The standing room only crowd was filled with motivated live and phone action, and received extensive absentee bidder interest. Of significant interest, two signed Lily [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions’ December Estates Auction, which took place December 28-29, 2009, offered a premier selection of items from the San Diego estate of Robert O. Peterson. Peterson, founder of the popular Jack-in-the-Box restaurant chain and noted patron of the arts, was a discerning collector of antiques and fine art with a fervent [Read More]

A hole was found in the market for an online source for people to either sell or acquire anything relating to the aquatics hobby. Aquatic-Auctions.co.uk is now being launched to full-fill the need. Mr Andrew Nixon stated that “He wants this to be a complete one stop aquatics auction website that fulfils [Read More]

The items being offered from the Gardiner Museum include a diverse body of material, donated by the estate of Helen E. Gardiner to be sold for the benefit of the Gardiner Museum. Included in this auction are European Ceramics from a variety of factories and Chinese Export Porcelain. Highlights from this group [Read More]

General Motors today announced that 100-percent of the proceeds from the auction of a limited edition 2008 Chevrolet Corvette at this weekend’s 39th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction will be donated to the American Red Cross relief fund to help earthquake-stricken Haiti. The proceeds from the auction of the limited edition 2008 [Read More]

Lovers of dog art will be treated to an extraordinary collecting opportunity as Bonhams New York presents its 28th Dog Art Sale on February 16th. Standing alone as the market leader in the genre, this popular sale has become a must for dog art collectors. Additionally, Bonhams will again partner with the [Read More]

From 20 January 2010, Christie’s will host a public exhibition showing masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Natalia Gonchorova that have been unseen in public for nearly 40 years, as well as an outstanding masterpiece by Yves Klein and important works by Henri Matisse, Peter Doig, Rene Magritte, Frank Auerbach, Kees [Read More]

Inglewood’s Fox Theatre, a historic art deco/moderne landmark that served as a main site for Hollywood premieres in the 1950s, will be sold via a sealed bid auction on February 5. The property will sell to the highest bidder above $200,000. Sperry Van Ness Accelerated Marketing Co. Inc. is conducting the auction [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial and agricultural equipment, will celebrate the Grand Opening of its new Tipton, California auction site with an unreserved public auction and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, February 12, 2010. The new Tipton site is the third Ritchie Bros. auction site in California and [Read More]

(FLAT ROCK, N.C.) – A spectacular two-day, multi-estate auction will be held the weekend of Feb. 26-27 by Richard D. Hatch & Associates, at the firm’s spacious gallery facility located at 913 Upward Road in Flat Rock. Over 1,300 lots in a variety of categories will cross the block, as several prominent [Read More]

Cowan’s Auctions, a leader in auctions of significant historical artifacts, has been tapped by Edgar Allen Poe scholar Cliff Krainik to sell at auction a previously-unknown watercolor portrait of Poe by A.C. Smith. Wes Cowan, President and Principal Auctioneer, estimates that the portrait could sell between $30,000 and $50,000. “Cowan’s is delighted [Read More]

Following Sotheby’s outstanding sale of Contemporary Art in New York last November, which soared above high estimate and witnessed all but two lots find buyers, Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, is set to provide Contemporary Art collectors with the opportunity to acquire important and rare [Read More]

The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on 11 February 2010 at 7pm, and will offer 52 lots with a total pre-sale estimate of £26,290,000 to £38,260,000. The auction will represent a broad spectrum of art from the last 60 years and is highlighted by an important core group [Read More]

Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered oil on canvas Self-Portrait with a Black Eye, circa 1978, by the celebrated British artist Lucian Freud (b. 1922) in its London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 10, 2010. The self-portrait, which headlines a group [Read More]

Christie’s Hong Kong announced that it will continue developing its business in Asia by strengthening its senior management lineup. To enhance the business-getting capability of our Chairman’s offices in Asia, François Curiel, currently Chairman of Christie’s Europe and France as well as International Head of the Jewellery Department, has been appointed as [Read More]