LARCHMONT, NY – On Monday, October 27, 2008, Clarke will host its Fifth Annual Fine Art Auction, featuring fresh-to-market and exceptional 19th and 20th Century paintings and sculpture. Clarke’s Fourth Annual Fine Art Auction uncovered rare works by or set records for artists as diverse as Daniel Chester French, Anton Refregier, William [Read More]
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Bonhams has announced that it will be selling the contents of the world famous Great Brampton House, on 1 October 2008, in what is expected to be the country house sale of the year. Situated in the heart of Herefordshire, Great Brampton House was used by the antiques dealer Lady Pidgeon as [Read More]
On Monday 25 August, Bonhams & Goodman held a sale of exceptional Fine Jewellery to a standing room only crowd. As one of the strongest jewellery sales held in Melbourne by the company to date, there were many highlights. The honour of the top lot of the sale went to Lot 70, [Read More]
New York, NY – On September 26, 2008 Sotheby’s New York will offer for sale one of the most important works of scrimshaw whales teeth to be discovered in the last decade, and certainly one of the most important to have appeared on the auction market in recent years: A Rare and [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, today announced highlights of its upcoming fine jewelry auction. The auction, which takes place on September 16th in Skinner’s Boston gallery, features fashions of every style – with almost 600 lots of Art Deco, Victorian, Art Nouveau and contemporary [Read More]
Despite a sluggish economy, the market for Modern Design proved to be strong at a recent sale conducted by Leonard Auction. The sale featured several mid-century modern pieces by Dunbar Furniture. The lead lot of the sale was the Edward Wormley designed sideboard, circa 1953, that brought $8,050 from a phone bidder. [Read More]
(Sedona, Ariz.) – An important atlas of China with 42 maps, executed in Paris in 1737 by the renowned French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville, is the anticipated top lot of an online auction (#125) planned for September 10-24 by Old World Auctions. The atlas constitutes the first scientific mapping of China, [Read More]
MADRID – Following its extraordinary Spanish sale results in 2007, Christie’s announced its 2008 Spanish Art sale in Madrid on 2 October 2008. Celebrating its 5th anniversary, the sale will include a leading selection of art works by the most renowned Spanish artists of all ages: from Old Masters Paintings to Impressionist [Read More]
Pasadena, CA – John Moran Auctioneers is proud to announce that on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 they will offer at public auction, and without reserve, select items from the estate of one of the greatest popular musicians of all time, clarinet legend Artie Shaw. Coming to auction for the first time will [Read More]
Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries will offer the very first $2 note ever printed by the U. S. Government in their upcoming Long Beach Currency Signature Auction, to be held September 17-19, 2008. The large-size 1862 Legal Tender note (Fr. 41a) is serial number one, and has had four different owners over [Read More]
Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries will offer one of the rarest Canadian notes ever printed, the “Queen Mary” $500 1911, in their upcoming Long Beach Currency Signature Auction, to be held September 17-19, 2008. “This is an amazing note, one of the classic rarities in Canadian currency,” said Michael Moczalla, Consignment Director [Read More]
LOS ANGELES, CA -Works from California Studio Legends Otto Heino and Sam Maloof on the auction Block at Bonhams & Butterfields’ fall 2008 auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts, to be held in Los Angeles on Monday, September 22, 2008, features a diverse group of master works spanning a century of design. [Read More]
Rare and desirable motorcars and collectible examples of automobilia come to auction with Bonhams on Saturday, October 4, 2008, at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA. Bonhams has developed a loyal following for their annual motorcar auctions at the Auto Museum, now celebrating its seventh sale. Each event at the [Read More]
Monterey, California – Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions 8th annual Sports and Muscle in Monterey auction event held August 14th -16th, 2008 at the downtown Marriott was an exciting auction that resulted in a successful two evening sale; approximately 150 cars ran over the auction block for a preliminary combined total [Read More]
NEW YORK – Sotheby’s is pleased to announce its Fall series of Asian Art sales in New York from September 16-19, 2008: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Chinese and Japanese Art from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal on September 16th; Contemporary Art Asia: China Korea Japan on [Read More]
NEW YORK – On September 26, Sotheby’s will hold its fall sale Important Americana comprising seventy-five lots of furniture, folk art, and silver. The sale is expected to bring $2.3/4.8 million and will be offered alongside Property of Rear Admiral Edward P. Moore and Barbara Bingham Moore. Both collections will be on [Read More]
LONDON – A previously unrecorded boomerang (estimate £40,000-£60,000) and two clubs (estimate £20,000-£30,000) from New Holland, Australia, likely to have been collected by Captain Cook on his first voyage in 1770, will be offered at the auction of Exploration and Travel at Christie’s on 25 September. Captain Cook was the first European [Read More]
LARCHMONT, NY – On Monday, August 25, Clarke will conduct its final auction of the Summer 2008 season. This sale is especially strong in midcentury modern, always a Clarke speciality, with pieces from Karl Springer, Arteluce, Paul Evans, Paavo Tynell, Tapi Wirkkala, John Widdicomb, Ron Schmidt, JL Metz, Sonneman, Toshiko Takaezu, Harvey [Read More]