Auction News

Children’s charity the NSPCC and international auction house Bonhams will be holding a sale of iconic images by a host of world renowned photographers on 17 May 2012 to raise vital funds for the charity’s Rebuilding Childhood Appeal. Works by leading photographers will be donated to the auction with highlights to include [Read More]

A red 1965 Jaguar E-Type Series 1 4.2-Litre Roadster that belonged to Sir Elton John is one of the highlights of the Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia sale, taking place at Bonhams Oxford on March 3rd 2012. Estimated to sell for £50,000-70,000 the car was bought by Sir Elton in 1987. According [Read More]

RM is to auction the world-famous Ferrari-engined Hydroplane racing boat, ARNO XI, to its highly anticipated Monaco auction, 11th – 12th May, 2012. 1953 Ferrari Hydroplane ‘Arno XI’. Photo: Silvano Maggi © RM Auctions A unique piece of history, ARNO XI joins an elite roster of blue-chip automobiles and motorcycles slated for [Read More]

Christie’s will auction The Raglan Collection: Waterloo, Wellington and The Crimea at the South Kensington saleroom, 85 Old Brompton Road, on 4 April 2012. This private collection from Cefntilla Court, Monmouthshire – the ancestral home of the Barons Raglan since 1855 – includes important historical medals, arms and armour, militaria, pictures, furniture, [Read More]

Swann Galleries will offer an outstanding selection of Printed & Manuscript African Americana, at auction, on March 1. Swann is the only major auction house to devote sales to this important historical material dealing with the African experience in the Americas. This year’s sale contains material related to slavery and abolition, Africa, [Read More]

Quinn’s Auction Galleries will officially launch its new premises at 360 S. Washington St. in the DC suburb of Falls Church, Va., with a Saturday, March 3 auction of fine and decorative artworks. Featured highlights within the sale’s more than 500 lots include paintings from the Denis and Lorena Thurman collection and [Read More]

Bonhams inaugural auction solely devoted to Oceanic Art, February 11 in San Francisco, was led by the sale of a rare and important Rarotonga or Atiu pole-club, ‘akatara,’ of the Cook Islands, which achieved $146,500 – far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of $75,000-$100,000. Cuirass and Sword, Tabiteuea Atol, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Cuirass: [Read More]

The on-site auction — conducted by Tim’s, Inc. – will be at Morss’s home in Litchfield, Conn. (LITCHFIELD, Conn.) – The entire contents of a seven-room home and three-room guest house of Anthony Morss, music director and principal conductor of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera in Fort Lee, N.J., will [Read More]

On Saturday, February 25 and Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 11 a.m., the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its first auction of 20th C. Design for the year, with over 1350 lots of exceptional property from private collections, museums and directly from the artists and their families. Previews begin February [Read More]

Bonhams is auctioning Liverpool FC legend Tommy Smith’s medal collection in the Sporting Memorabilia sale in its Chester saleroom on 22 February 2012. Comprising 75 lots, the collection includes FA Cup, UEFA Cup and European Cup winners’ medals, a full England International Cap, a record five Charity Shields, and 20 shirts worn [Read More]

The much-anticipated continuation of Bonhams February 12 sale of property from Serendipity Books in Berkeley, Calif., along with a great selection of European paintings and 20th century designs, will go on the auction block at Bonhams Period Art & Design sale, April 15-16 in San Francisco. Property from Serendipity Books, on offer [Read More]

The late-breaking consignments promise to be the crown jewels of the three-day auction event. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Two important letters relating to the doomed ocean liner Titanic, plus three early Titanic Marconigrams (radio telegrams) have been added to an already packed three-day estate sale planned for March 1-3 by Philip Weiss Auctions. [Read More]

Laguna Art Museum’s 2012 Art Auction fundraiser on on February 4, 2012 grossed approximately $182,000 for the museum’s education and exhibition programs, which is $50,000 more than it raised at its 2011 Art Auction. . Additionally, attendance increased by 35% from 2011 with 584 people attending the 2012 soiree. Of the 107 [Read More]

Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale brought a total of £78,893,650 / $125,504,018 /€94,491,096 (est. £79– 113.3 million). The top price of the sale was achieved for Claude Monet’s previously unseen painting of 1885 L’Entreé de Giverny en Hiver, which sold in a four-way bidding battle to a buyer in the room [Read More]

The sale will feature an Eli Terry pillar-and-scroll clock and guitars signed by rock ‘n’ roll stars (NORFOLK, Conn.) – An early 19th century Eli Terry pillar-and-scroll clock, guitars signed by some of the greatest names in rock ‘n’ roll history, fine pieces of Hitchcock furniture, and gold and silver coins are [Read More]

Skinner, Inc. will host a Discovery auction on February 16th in its Marlborough gallery. The one-day sale boasts eight hundred lots. Among the wide selection of material featured, bidders will find hundreds of lots of Asian offerings including carved jade and ivory, Chinese export porcelain, brush pots, scrolls, and hardwood furnishings. The [Read More]

Jim Wroda Auctions announces an auction of Dolls-Doll/Child Furniture and Doll related smalls, on February 24th 4pm. Child’s collapsible bed, Child’s washstand with decorated inserts, child’s sleigh bed for a doll, doll’s wardrobe, child’s toy china cabinet, antique child’s chair with needlepoint seat, working toy dishwasher, antique electric toy stove, antique trunk [Read More]

Most experienced wine auction team remains a global market leader (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart, the leading wine auction house in America over the past two years, opened 2012 with a highly-charged auction of finest and rarest wines, selling 100% of lots offered and posting $3.5 million in sales against a [Read More]