Auction News

Cowan’s March 26, 2010 American Indian and Western Auction had total proceeds reach over $762,000. The catalogued portion of the auction offered 507 lots, and an online-only second session that immediately followed featured an additional 309 lots. The highest-selling lot of the auction was a circa 1900 Yavapai Apache Olla with figural [Read More]

Heritage Auction Galleries has announced that Carolyn Mani has joined the company in its Beverly Hills location as Consignment Director. Mani joins Heritage, the world’s largest auctioneer of coins, fine collectibles, jewelry and Art from the Sunset Estate Department of Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers in Los Angeles, where she was Director, Specialist [Read More]

Spectrum Group International, Inc. announced that it has appointed Paul Soth as its Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, effective immediately. Mr. Soth, aged 51, served as Director of Income Tax Processes and Systems for Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. from August 2009 until April 2010, and as Corporate Controller and Tax Manager [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields announces the spring auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on April 20, 2010. The 430 lot sale will offer a diverse group of high quality works spanning the evolution of 20th century design by well-known figures of the period. The sale will feature strong examples of Arts & Crafts, [Read More]

Gray’s Auctioneer’s announces a Furniture and Decorative Arts Auction to be held Thursday April 15 2010 at 1 pm. Highlights include numerous lots of 19th and 20th century furniture, including a stunning Georgian Style Mahogany Three Part Bookcase. Other offerings include a uniquely carved 17th Century Spanish Walnut Low Table (pictured). Also [Read More]

On Sunday, April 18th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell over 450 lots just consigned from local estates as well as the second phase of an estate stored unseen since the late 1970s. Silver highlights include the massive seven piece Cartier .950 Silver Coffee and Tea Service including a 30″ by [Read More]

On 12 May 2010 Sotheby’s New York will offer the most important work by Brice Marden ever to appear at auction, “Cold Mountain I” (Path). Executed in 1988-89, the masterwork was the first in the artist’s acclaimed series of six monumental (108 x 144 in.) canvases named for Han Shan, known as [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York spring sale of modern and contemporary Prints will take place on 29 and 30 April and will offer collectors a broad selection of modern and contemporary works spanning the 20th century. Prior to the two-day auction, the sale will be on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning [Read More]

Artfact Live! is pleased to announce the Sloans & Kenyon April Estate Catalogue Auction beginning April 16 is available for online bidding exclusively through Artfact Live! The 3 day auction offers over 1,600 lots including: Asian art, silver, rugs, Americana, furniture, ceramics, fine art, clothing, jewelry and more. If you can’t join [Read More]

The Directors of Bonhams, international fine arts auctioneers, are pleased to announce the appointment of Amy J. Lawch, G.G. as the firm’s Regional Representative for Houston, Texas. As Regional Representative, Ms. Lawch, an Accredited Appraiser certified by the International Society of Appraisers, will be the liaison between the auctioneers and Houston Area [Read More]

A collection of paintings from a deceased estate in Jersey, showing beautiful landscape scenes of Elizabeth Castle, Martello Towers and Mount Orgueil Castle among other Jersey sights, are to feature in the British and Continental Pictures auction on Tuesday 20th April at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. The mainly coastal scenes are highly evocative of [Read More]

Barrett-Jackson Auction Company reported more than $20 million in total sales and produced one of its most dynamic auctions during the 8th Annual Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Collector Car Auction April 1-3, 2010. The all No Reserve auction had bidders vying for more than 400 cars on an exciting docket that included the [Read More]

On Wednesday, 28 April 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a collection of English furniture which – in its exceptional quality and aesthetic appeal – defines the connoisseurship and unfailing eye of two of the greatest protagonists ever to have worked in the furniture business: Francis Egerton and Peter Maitland. Together, [Read More]

Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art announces an online auction to include ten pieces of Richard Ritter’s glass sculpture featured in the retrospective exhibition, Richard Ritter: 40 Years of Glass. This auction offers an exclusive opportunity to purchase these pieces, some of which have not been offered for sale to the [Read More]

RM Auctions, will offer 43 vehicles from the famed Pate Museum of Transportation ‘without reserve’, June 5th in Cresson, Texas. Regarded as a prime example of ‘one Texan’s devotion to all things mobile’, the Pate Museum was the result of over 40 years of judicious collecting by the late Aggie Pate, former [Read More]

Maitri San Francisco (www.maitrisf.org), the only AIDS-specific residential care facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, has announced its signature gala and auction, BLISS 2010. This year’s event will take place on Sunday, May 2nd from 6-10pm at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s historic Presidio and will be headlined by [Read More]

Leading fleet insurance brokers Staveley Head have welcomed the news that the motor charity BEN plans to launch a new Fleet Disposal Contribution Plan (FDCP). This will see lease and rental agencies working with auction houses, in order to raise money for selected good causes when disposing of vehicles. It is expected [Read More]

An outstanding collection of Blue and White Porcelain assembled by the renowned ceramics expert Geoffrey Godden is to be auctioned at Bonhams on Wednesday 30th June. Godden’s encyclopaedic knowledge has earned him the nickname ‘God’ to many in the ceramics field, and this collection, many items of which are included in his [Read More]