On May 13th Bonhams will present a highly anticipated sale of Fine African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art at its New York galleries. Comprised of nearly 200 lots, the sale includes works of art from a number of distinguished collections as well exceptional pieces from various owners. Featured is a group of twenty-four [Read More]
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AN IMPORTANT pair of Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases, dating from the reign of Czar Alexander I (1777-1825) will be offered on the first day of Bellmans three-day sale on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. The sale will take place at Wisborough Green, West Sussex and they vases are estimated at £20,000-30,000. Measuring 40.5cm [Read More]
Christie’s London has announced that they will offer at auction the most important and comprehensive private collection of letters and books related to Winston Churchill ever assembled. Presenting an insight into the mind and methods of one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century, the collection was assembled over a period [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Monday, 28 June, 2010 will offer a remarkable Yves Klein work, “RE 49, Relief Eponge Bleu”, which comes to auction from the collection HypoVereinsbank. This work is one of exceptionally few large-scale blue “Relief Eponge” works remaining in private hands and was created at the [Read More]
Some of the biggest names in photography recently joined forces to support auction house Christie’s and the first ever Green Auction “A Bid To Save The Earth” charity event. To coincide with the recent 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 18 of the most celebrated names in photography collaborated to create an impressive [Read More]
Skinner, Inc.’s Boston gallery will offer on May 15th some of the most interesting American Indian & Ethnographic Art to go on the block in some time. The auction features just shy of 650 works, some pieces dating back thousands of years. Represented are Pre-Columbian, Tribal and American Indian artifacts. American Indian [Read More]
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – An exceptional cataloged multi-estate auction featuring hundreds of fresh-to-the-market lots in a broad range of categories – period furniture, antique clocks, vintage lighting, and more – will be held Saturday, May 22, at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s spacious gallery facility, at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. [Read More]
Christie’s London announces an unprecedented sale of works of art selected from the Estate of Francis Newton Souza to take place on 9 June 2010 as part of the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art auction. Comprising over 150 lots created throughout the artist’s career – from the late 1930s through to [Read More]
Fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields will offer American and European prints on May 4, 2010, a simulcast auction to be held in its San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms. As many as 340 lots will be offered, including rare and desirable etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and screenprints — and featuring an Albrecht [Read More]
Regions of Italy, Spain and New World represented in impressive sale BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc., one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host its spring auction of Fine Wines on May 13tht at 6 p.m. in its Boston gallery at 63 Park Plaza. The sale, [Read More]
Fascinating photographs of London Women’s Pub Outings in Battersea and Clapham taken by Scottish photographer Grace Robertson in the 1950s are being sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Photographs on 20 May 2010. The four images follow a group of women on a series of pub [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong announces its Spring sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will take place on 30 May at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 130 quality works spanning the history and geography in the Southeast Asian region, the sale brings together modern masterpieces of undisputed provenance [Read More]
On 12 May 2010 Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art sale will offer works by some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Brice Marden, among many others. The sale presents an interesting survey of the key artistic schools [Read More]
Gray’s Auctioneers presents its first Fine Printed Books Auction, to be held Thursday May 6, 2010 at 1 pm, in which travel guides, illustrated books, art books, modern first editions, and sets are all well-represented. Among the highlights of the sale is a third edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece Frankenstein, being [Read More]
On 18 June 2010 Sotheby’s New York will offer for sale John Lennon’s autograph Lyrics for A Day In The Life – the revolutionary song that marked the Beatles transformation from pop icons to artists. The double-sided sheet of paper in Lennon’s hand is complete with cross-outs, corrections, reworkings, and chronicles the [Read More]
Austin Auction Gallery chalked up a solid $260,000 total with its April 18, 2010 Important Spring Estates Auction, led by a keenly pursued selection of Mid-century dining room furniture designed by Paul Evans (American, 1931-1987). The 10-piece sculpted-bronze dining suite consisted of a large ‘Stalagmite’ glass-top table, eight chairs upholstered in purple [Read More]
(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Several property documents signed by Elvis Presley – to include the original contract to purchase Graceland in 1957 – plus Star Wars collectibles combined to lead the charge at a huge three-day multi-estate sale held Apr. 23-25 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The sale was held in the firm’s spacious [Read More]
Auction held at 25 Blythe Road, London W14 on April 28, 2010 GRAND TOTAL: £414,300 LOTS OFFERED: 236 % SOLD: 91% LOT PRICE ESTIMATES BUYER 249 £57,600 £40,000/60,000 Private A monumental 1:48 scale dockyard model of the 1st class armoured cruiser H M S Leviathan, built by John Brown & Co. Ltd, [Read More]