Auction News

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, (NYSE Amex: KWIC) announced today that Jack F. Kennedy has been named vice president, Business Development. Jack is joining the group’s rapidly growing business development team nationwide and will be working in Kennedy Wilson’s New [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Spectrum Wine Auctions has selected the Company to provide live online bidding for its February Internet-only wine auction, which includes a selection of wines from The Aubrey McClendon Collection, considered by many to be the greatest American collector of [Read More]

Visitors to top Rocky Mountain resorts have a new way of renting a vacation home thanks to an innovative new web site called VacationRentalsByAuction.com. This unique new service lets visitors bid on available dates on up to 1,000 privately owned vacation homes — many of which still have open dates for this [Read More]

Primo Center for Women and Children (“PCWC”) board member Trish Hoffman has secured two unique items that are being auctioned-off on CharityBuzz.com to raise money for the center. Bidders can go to http://www.charitybuzz.com to make an offer on a 7-Night stay at Villa Amanecer located in the exclusive The Bay of Dreams [Read More]

Christie’s announced that it will offer at auction this spring in New York major works from the collection of the late Michael Crichton. Best-selling author and screenwriter, film director and producer, Crichton is renowned for his terrifying and sometimes controversial scientific thrillers such as The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, The Lost [Read More]

At High Noon’s 20th Anniversary Show & Auction held January 30 & 31, 2010 in Mesa, Arizona, 150+ dealers reaped the benefits of record attendance propelled by the Roy Rogers Museum consignment to the popular Saturday evening auction. At the end of an exciting evening, just shy of $1.8 million was realized [Read More]

Six of Austin Art Space’s resident artists have joined together to support services that enhance the independence and quality of life for older adults. Each artist has donated a work that will be auctioned off by the Faith in Action Caregivers-Southwest Austin on February 18, 2010. Other auction items include prized wines [Read More]

On February 9th, seventy eight years of breadstick manufacturing in the Bronx will come to a close with the public auction sale of equipment from the Stella D’oro baking headquarters on West 237th Street. This announcement follows years’ worth of struggle between the new owners of the facility and the employees, whom [Read More]

The California Department of General Services fleet division is in the midst of auctioning 50 vehicles online; its largest ever online vehicle auction. The auction will close on February 10, 2010. Participants must register with the site in order to bid on available vehicles. This is the first wave of statewide online [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to present the extensive archives of the New York theatrical agency, American Play Company (APC)/ Century Play Company (CPC), including correspondence, contracts, company records, and theatrical scripts covering the first two quarters of the 20th century (est. $120,000-180,000), during the Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that the Company signed on several marquis heavy equipment, farm machinery and truck auctions during the month of January. The addition of Blackmon Auctions, PacLease Truck Sales, Weeks Auction Co., JD Equipment Inc., Biliske Schuster Auctioneers, and Fastline to Proxibid’s [Read More]

Christie’s London announced Architectural Heritage: The Adrian and Suzy Puddy Collection , to be held on Wednesday, 10 March 2010. The sale will include 220 lots of fine antique garden statuary and ornaments, handcarved natural limestone chimneypieces and paneling, with estimates ranging from £500 to £40,000; the collection is expected to realize [Read More]

An incredible archive of Dr Who memorabilia comprising monsters, costumes and props from the BBC is to be sold by Bonhams, Knightsbridge on 24 February 2010 at 2pm, with funds raised from the sale to be used to help finance future series of Dr Who. As the world’s longest running science fiction [Read More]

Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, announces “A Bid to Save the Earth” Green Auction. This first-of-its-kind charity auction will take place on April 22, 2010 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The Evening Sale event will be held at Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, New York and be carried [Read More]

At Sotheby’s, Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for £65,001,250 / $104,327,006 /€74,185,983 becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The sale of that work was swiftly followed by that of Gustav Klimt’s Kirche in Cassone, which made £26,921,250 / $43,208,606/ €30,725,246 – a [Read More]

The South African flag signed by South Africa’s three most recent presidents – Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and F. W. de Klerk – which flew from a helicopter at the historic presidential inauguration on 10th May 1994, will be sold at Bonhams South African Art Sale in London on 24th March. This [Read More]

Great Rock Auctions, a leading premium real estate auction firm, today announced the March 3rd auction of two Beacon Hill new construction luxury properties. “For the first time in Boston real estate history, buyers have the opportunity to bid their price on two spectacular Beacon Hill homes,” said Jeremy Freid, Principal of [Read More]

(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – An exceedingly rare group of three distinguished awards given to World War I German flying ace Adolf Ritter von Tutschek soared to $28,250 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 23-24 by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting and fishing, militaria and collectibles site. The group was the top [Read More]