Phillips de Pury & Company’s New York Fall 2011 Contemporary Art Part I Sale will take place on November 7 and will present 45 superb works with a pre-sale estimate of $66,560,000 – 97,970,000, representing major artistic movements across the category. Significant works by Post-War masters Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, [Read More]
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Bonhams October 25 Fine Prints sale in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles, was a great success with results exceeding $1.7 million and with works from Helen Frankenthaler and Andy Warhol leading the auction. Frankenthaler’s Tales of Genji I, 1998, signed and woodcut in colors, was the top lot of the sale, [Read More]
More than 200 lots of fine and decorative arts from private collections and estates will be offered at John Moran Auctioneers’ November 15th Antiques and Fine Art Auction. Featuring an outstanding group of 20th century bronzes and metalware, the sale offers a rarely seen survey of fine examples of Art Deco, Art [Read More]
Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School will host their inaugural fine art benefit auction on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 from 6:30-9:30pm at the Vincent Astor Gallery in Lincoln Center’s Library of Performing Arts. This landmark event will honor artist Wolf Kahn and includes a cocktail reception, exhibition and auction of almost [Read More]
When Roland Auction received 20th Century furniture by Tobia and Afra Scarpa, whose work can be seen at MoMA, abstract steel sculptures by Magpantay and fine 19th Century figurative bronzes by Jean-Paul Aube and August Peiffer for its November 12 auction, the words “high style” rippled through the gallery. According to Robert [Read More]
RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, concluded its 2011 sales calendar on a high note in London on Wednesday (26th October), posting over £13.3 million* ($21,413,000) in total sales with a solid 79% of all lots sold. 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB ‘Tour de France’ Berlinetta [Read More]
Dwight Stevens acquired the building that formerly housed the Flomaton Auction Company. (FLOMATON, Ala.) – Stevens Auction Company – already an auction powerhouse in the Southeast – is about to expand its presence in the region, having recently acquired the building in Flomaton that previously housed Flomaton Antique Auction, Inc. Stevens will [Read More]
A historic 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle is expected to establish a new world record* for a motorcycle sold at auction when it crosses the podium at Auctions America by RM’s debut Last Vegas sale, January 12 – 14, 2012. The multi-day auction will feature an impressive docket of over 400 collector motorcycles. [Read More]
The museum-quality archive was the top earner of the nearly 1,350 lots that changed hands. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A historically significant and museum-quality archive of material pertaining to the doomed ocean liner the HMS Titanic — consigned by direct descendants of a couple that were rescued when the ship went down the [Read More]
The original 1942 Jerry Robinson artwork from Detective Comics #67, one of the earliest Batman covers still known to exist – consigned by the legendary Golden Age artist himself – is being offered for the very first time at auction and is expected to bring $300,000+ when it comes across the block [Read More]
The catalog may be viewed online, at www.ConverseClocks.com, and via LiveAuctioneers.com. (STRAFFORD, Pa.) – More than 400 quality lots of merchandise, drawn from prominent estates and collections and in a wide array of categories, will be sold in an Internet-only auction that has already gone online and will conclude with live bidding [Read More]
Sotheby’s auctioneers have announced the sale in Paris on November 9 of an exceptional Serge Gainsbourg group of autograph songs, notes, photographs and memorabilia. Author, composer, performer, artist, film-maker, photographer… Serge Gainsbourg (1928-91) left behind him a multi-faceted œuvre. With his phenomenal creative versatility, decadent poetry and musical genius, Gainsbourg earned a [Read More]
Two Joseph Heller letters reminiscing on his epic war novel “Catch-22” will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday November 8, 2011 auction commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark war book. Heller wrote to Professor James Nagel of Northeastern University on March 13, 1974 regarding “Catch-22” and his personal war experiences. [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces that it will offer men’s accessories and watches from the collection of the late John Traina this December in New York. Mr. Traina was a shipping executive, vintner, noted collector, author and a mainstay of San Francisco society, legendary for his great style and warm personality. Sotheby’s will offer 92 [Read More]
Swann Galleries’ annual auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters on Friday, November 11 offers many seldom-seen images from around the world, and marks the first time several of them have come to auction. Frederick C. Herrick, London’s Underground / Nightly Carnival, 1924. Estimate: $3,000 to $4,000. A strong selection of British [Read More]
Howard Chandler Christy’s Nymphs in Summer sells for $179,250, sets record for artist; Alberto Vargas, Jessie Willcox-Smith, Edward Runci all perform well in Oct. 22 New York auction Gil Elvgren remains the unchallenged champion of American Pin-Up Art, as evidenced by the $191,200 price realized for his 1956 Fire Belle (Always Ready), [Read More]
Doyle New York will offer a fine selection of prints in the Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints auction on November 7, 2011 at 1pm. Martin Lewis, Shadow Dance (MCC. 88), 9 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches; 238 x 276 mm. Sheet 12 1/8 x 14 3/16 inches; 308 x 360 mm. [Read More]
A highlight of Bonhams Photographs sale on 17 November 2011, at New Bond Street, is an intimate portrait of Julia Jackson by British photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). One of around fifty known portraits by Cameron of her niece, the earliest dating from 1864, it has attracted a pre-sale estimate of [Read More]