Auction News

A striking and intense painting by Fernand Léger is one of the highlights of Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale on 5th February 2013. Estimated at £70,000 – 100,000, the painting is a highly personal work that communicates the artist’s strong stand on disarmament and against biological warfare. Painted in a graphic [Read More]

(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, will hold an auction of Finest and Rarest Wines February 2nd at award-winning restaurant TRU, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The auction, which includes 1339 lots, is estimated to fetch $2.8-$4.34 million [Read More]

The expected top lot is a Harbor Petroleum single-sided porcelain sign with sea plane graphics. (PEOTONE, Ill.) – Around 600 outstanding, high-value gas station and automobile signs will be featured in a Spring Petroliana & Advertising Auction scheduled for Feb. 28-Mar. 1 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, based in Nokomis, Ill. The auction [Read More]

Part two of a vast collection of antique scent bottles is to be offered at auction in Lichfield on 13th February and is expected to draw worldwide interest. The lifetime collection amassed by a local client comprises hundreds of the tiny bottles. Part one was sold in November last year and part [Read More]

Skinner, Inc., one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host an auction of Asian Works of Art on January 31st in its Marlborough gallery. Concurrently, lots will also be offered on January 28th through February 6th online with Skinner’s new timed auction platform. Red and Blue [Read More]

Dedham, MA – On Sunday, January 20th, Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers will conduct an important auction of over 300 fine Oriental Rugs and Carpets from several prominent collections, including examples from noted author and rug expert James Opie. The exhibition will begin on Monday, January 14th and run through January [Read More]

“The compilation of these collections were truly a labor of love,” begins Garth’s chief executive, Jeff Jeffers. “Together, they represent an outstanding assemblage of country Americana and folk art that is hard to find.” The collections to which Jeffers refers belong to an unnamed Texas gentleman and John and Rose Anna Kolar [Read More]

With Asian material encompassing more than half of the 762 lots offered in their late January auction, Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers is hoping to celebrate the Chinese New Year just a few weeks early with fireworks in the sale room. Lot 7 CARVED IVORY SKULL. Japan, Edo/Takugawa (1600-1868). Finely carved skull with [Read More]

On January 10th at Bally’s in Las Vegas, 15 motorcycles from the Lawrence E. Lattin Collection will join an assembly of over 160 other motorcycles of various vintages at Bonhams’ already-famous third annual Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction. 1957 Ariel Square Four Of these 175+ motorcycles, some are extremely rare, some are quite [Read More]

Skinner, Inc. will host a Discovery auction on January 9th and 10th in its Marlborough gallery. The two-day sale presents an excellent assortment of Victorian and 20th century furnishings, as well as an extensive collection of European and American ceramics. Group of Wedgwood Ceramics and Glass Skinner’s first Discovery auction of 2013 [Read More]

Around 400 lots of quality merchandise in an eclectic mix of categories will be sold without reserve (everything goes, regardless of price) in an auction slated for Saturday, Jan. 12, by Broken Arch Auction Gallery, starting at 6 p.m. The sale will be held in Broken Arch’s gallery, at 60 Monticello Road [Read More]

(Lincoln, UK) Two of the Majestic Paper Horses and a chariot created by Richard Sweeney (one of the world’s greatest paper artists) for this Summer’s Flower Festival at Lincoln Cathedral are to be auctioned to raise money for charity at Unique Auction’s Annual New Years Day Auction. Lifesize Paper Horses by Artist [Read More]

The sale will be held at the firm’s gallery in Weaverville, N.C., about 10 miles north of Asheville. (WEAVERVILLE, N.C.) – Around 400 lots of quality merchandise in an eclectic mix of categories will be sold without reserve (everything goes, regardless of price) in an auction slated for Saturday, Jan. 12, by [Read More]

Bonhams will be celebrating the start of 2013 with the unveiling of Scotland’s largest private collection of pre-Islamic & Islamic art, which has never been seen in public before. The collection will go on view at Bonhams Edinburgh galleries from the 8th to the 13th January. The collection focuses primarily on items [Read More]

Archives International Auctions will conduct their inaugural Hong Kong auction in association with Dynasty Auctions Company, Ltd. (HONG KONG, China) – Archives International Auctions, in association with Dynasty Auctions Company, Ltd., will offer the Allen Berk single-owner lifetime collection of rare Chinese and Asian banknotes on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Harbor [Read More]

(Lincoln, UK) Nearly 1,000 items of Antiques, Fine Art and Highly Collectible Items will be sold as part of Unique Auctions (UK) Annual New Years Day Auction on 1st January 2013 at 9am (GMT). Reclining Chinaman Money Bank Highlights of the sale include a fine selection of Oriental and Jade Items, English [Read More]

The sword was the top lot in an auction that saw about 1,700 lots of militaria come up for bid. (BOUCKVILLE, N.Y.) – A Samurai sword surrendered by Japanese Rear Admiral Nobukagu Yoshimi on the Marshall Islands in 1945, plus an archive of material pertaining to the soldier’s surrender, sold for $7,538 [Read More]

The trend of coveting retro-style continued at Bonhams New York today when their December 11 sale of The Richard Balsbaugh Collection of Vintage Radios proved another landmark success in the collecting history of this popular field. The auction totaled $555,437, doubling its pre-sale estimate, and was 100% sold by lot and by [Read More]