Auction News

A rare and flawless blue 5.16 carat diamond that was once part of the De Beers Millennium Collection has been sold for $6.4m (£4.2m) at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. Auctioneers Sotheby’s had estimated the diamond at between $4.6 million and $5.8 million, it sold to London gem merchant Alisa Moussaieff who said [Read More]

Christie’s New York has announced it will offer Edvard Munch’s Fertility (estimate: $25-35 million) – one of the most important works by the artist remaining in private hands – as the cover lot of its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 4. Painted in the late 1890s, Fertility [Read More]

One of the earliest known hand-coloured impressions of a 20th century iconic image, Edvard Munch’s Madonna, is being offered for sale at Bonhams Print sale on 13 July 2010. It is estimated to fetch between £500,000 – 700,000. The museum quality impression, which has never been seen in public, is signed and [Read More]

A unique and fascinating painting goes under the hammer at Bonhams in the 19th and 20th Century Pictures and Prints sale in Edinburgh on 22 April. Although the signature on the painting of Broughty Ferry Harbour, Dundee, is that of Ian Morrison the work is actually by two of Scotland’s most famous [Read More]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam will auction impressive garden sculptures and architectural ornaments from the Piet Jonker collection on Wednesday 26th May, 2010. The auction will have 350 high quality lots that have been selected personally by Piet Jonker and Sotheby’s specialists. Numerous sculptures, fountains, benches, tables, vases, flower pots and other works of art [Read More]

Kristine Eubanks, 52, got seven years in federal prison for selling counterfeit paintings through rigged, TV art auctions, that netted $20 million from about 10,000 victims, during 2002 – 2006. Eubanks of La Canada Flintridge pleaded guilty in April 2007 to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate transportation [Read More]

Stars For A Cause, in collaboration with the Chrysler Group, is proud to auction off a 2010 Chrysler 300 eco style Edition car that was autographed and personalized by recording artist and film star Christina Aguilera to benefit the United Nations World Food Programme, with relief going towards Haiti. This vehicle will [Read More]

On Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25, 2010 at Noon, the Rago Arts and Auction Center holds a 900+ lot auction of 20th C. decorative arts and furnishings, the vast majority new to the market, fresh from private collections secured in the US and abroad. “Our April auction is full of [Read More]

A cloth name tag that was a part of the spacesuit worn by Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell while he spent more than nine hours on the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission on Feb. 5-6, 1971, is the unrivaled centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ April 21 Grand Format Space Exploration Auction live [Read More]

Lee Man Fong’s seminal work Bali Life made HK$25,300,000/ US$3,243,590 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Sale, setting the World Record for any Southeast Asian Painting and for the Artist at Auction. The entire Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Spring Sale 2010 totalled HK$69,292,000, comfortably surpassing the [Read More]

(WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wisc.) – A huge sale consisting of around 500 lots of classic cars, petroliana items, gas pumps and advertising memorabilia will be sold Saturday, May 1, beginning at 10 a.m. (Central Time), in the Central Motor Sales Building at 943 Alton Street in Wisconsin Rapids. The sale will be conducted [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its Spring auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on April 20, 2010. The Los Angeles-based sale will feature a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works by established American artists including Joseph Kleitsch, Franz Bischoff, Edgar Payne, [Read More]

Maria Elena Holly, the widow of early rock legend Buddy Holly, has consigned a treasure trove of Buddy’s clothing, photographs and personal effects – some of the last pieces in her collection – to Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills’ April 9 Signature Music Memorabilia Auction, making these rare and superbly preserved treasures [Read More]

Stephenson’s Auctioneers and Appraisers of Southampton (Greater Philadelphia), Pa., will present a Spring 2010 Antique and Decorative Arts Auction on Friday, April 16 that is so large and diverse, selling will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern, two hours earlier than usual. Rather then picking a handful of highlights, Stephenson’s owner and auctioneer [Read More]

Swann Galleries will offer a large selection of Old Master Through Modern Prints at auction, on Tuesday, April 27, beginning with nearly 150 desirable Old Master Prints, followed by sections devoted to 19th-century prints, American prints, and European prints. Of special note among the Old Masters are works by Albrecht Dürer, including [Read More]

Christie’s London Asian Art Week will run from 11 – 14 May 2010, featuring further remarkable works which exemplify rarity, beauty and excellent provenance, with many highlights offered from inspiring private collections such as The Edward and Marilyn Flower Collection of Netsuke and Inro, Part II, Prints from The Illing Collection and [Read More]

On April 16-17, 2010, Bertoia’s will offer part III of the Donald Kaufman Collection, which will include the first offerings of classic American character toys from this prestigious collection. “The selection will astound collectors – something like this won’t happen again in our lifetime,” said Rich Bertoia, who catalogued the majority of [Read More]

A signed, first edition copy of Jane Austen’s novel ‘Emma’ published in 1816 has fetched 325,000 pounds at Jonkers Rare Books in Oxfordshire, UK. Jonkers are reported to have paid £180,000 for it at auction in 2008. The book, which has also been showcased in Hong Kong, New York and San Francisco, [Read More]