BOSTON, Mass. – March 9, 2010 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. announced today that it will host an auction of 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts on March 27th at 10 a.m. in Boston. The auction features a wide array of Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, Mid-century Modern and Studio [Read More]
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Bonhams achieved superb results last weekend at the Collectors’ Motor Car and Automobilia sale in Oxford, fetching a grand total of £1,017,317 and an 86% sale rate with 44 out of 51 car lots selling. The top price (£166,500) was paid, as expected, for a fabulous 1956 Bentley S1 Continental Fastback with [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam saleroom was filled to overflowing as the company’s offering of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection became the most heavily sale attended in Sotheby’s history in Amsterdam. The sale – Sotheby’s first auction of 2010 in Amsterdam – exceeded all expectations, achieving the remarkable [Read More]
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers has announced an auction featuring over 75 lots of early Italian and Latin literature from the antiquarian book library of John Sisto of Berwyn, Illinois. The books, maps and engravings comprise what remains of the over 3,500 items seized by the Chicago division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [Read More]
Salvage Direct announces Avis Budget Group (NYSE: CAR), operator of two of the most recognized brands in the global vehicle rental industry through Avis and Budget, as its latest seller partner. Avis Budget Group will use Salvage Direct’s leading auction platform, SalvageDirect.com, to sell its vehicles to buyers worldwide. “This new partnership [Read More]
K2 Sourcing, a Wisconsin-based technology firm, announces it has been awarded an order to provide a single-event Reverse Auction service to the Washington D.C.-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA, the federal agency responsible for the nation’s aviation safety, selected K2 Sourcing’s reverse auction technology as a good fit for an acquisition [Read More]
WWA Group, Inc. announced today that its services are being offered to thousands of visitors at the Saudi Arabia Plant, Machinery and Vehicle (“PMV”) show in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which opened on March 7 and runs through March 9, 2010. WWA Group has invited all of its customers in Saudi Arabia and [Read More]
Bonhams is annual sale of motor cars and automobilia in Monaco is being held on 30th April 2010. This year, the annual Les Grandes Marques à Monaco celebrates its 21st consecutive year and takes place at the Musée des Voitures du Prince. Leading the charge, a 1950 Ferrari 166/195S Cabriolet by Vignale [Read More]
Dan Morphy Auctions holds it’s first-ever Discovery Auction, on Tuesday, March 16, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. This 483-lot sale includes a fantastic array of antique toys, banks, advertising, primitives, fine and decorative art, and so much more. Morphy’s has been very selective about the quality of items chosen for this [Read More]
Kaminski Auctions, announces its March Estates Auction. The auction features fine art, antiques and a premier selection of historical items from the San Diego estate of the Grant family, descendants of United States President Ulysses S. Grant. Featured consignments hail from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s California location. The auction takes place [Read More]
Works by Husband and Wife Artists Who Fell in Love with Suffolk Coast to be Sold A collection of paintings by the devoted husband and wife artists, Lionel Bulmer and Margaret Green are to feature in the Modern Pictures auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge on 23rd March at 2pm. The 60 works for [Read More]
On Tuesday, 30 March, 2010 Sotheby’s London will offer a range of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints. Printmaking has been at the heart of artistic production for over 500 years. The spring sale will present an exciting opportunity to acquire works by a group of important Old Master artists such as [Read More]
Streambank, LLC, an advisory firm specializing in the sale of intangible assets, today announced that a bid deadline and auction date have been finalized for the sale of the intangible assets of American IronHorse Motorcycles, the Fort Worth, Texas-based volume manufacturer of V-twin motorcycles. Bids may be entered until 5:00 p.m. EDT, [Read More]
As a finale to the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the museum will auction works donated to benefit the museum’s exhibition programming, now on view in the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Matthew Ritchie (b. 1964, London), The House of GI–A Proposal, 2009. Ink on vellum paper, 72.1 x [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields will offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts on March 29, 2010 in Los Angeles. The 500-lot sale will offer an array of works for varied tastes and collecting levels from the 16th through the 20th centuries with a focus on English, French, Italian, Spanish and German property. Highlights [Read More]
This spring, Christie’s will present “Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection” as a highlight of its major sales of Impressionist and Modern Art, American Paintings, and 20th Century Decorative Arts. Featuring over 175 exceptional items from the collections of fine art dealer Bernard Goldberg’s New York gallery, highlights of the sales will [Read More]
Michael Sovern, Chairman of Sotheby’s, has announced that James Murdoch had been unanimously nominated by the Board of Directors of Sotheby’s to stand for election as a Director of Sotheby’s at the Company’s May 6, 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. “James has impressive experience in several important areas that will be immensely [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold the Fine Chinese Paintings 2010 Spring Sale on 6 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Building on the success of the thematic collections offered in previous seasons, Sotheby’s will again present distinguished private collections that boast immaculate provenance and quality this spring. The collections [Read More]