Auction News

Christie’s announced the appointment of Marc Porter as Chairman of Christie’s Americas effective January 2010. In this role, Mr. Porter will lead the Top Client Program in the Americas and remain President of Christie’s Japan, and a member of the Board of Christie’s. In addition, Stephen Lash has been appointed Chairman Emeritus [Read More]

Century Timeshare Group—a company dedicated to providing the timeshare community with the best resources available today in assisting buyers / sellers of timeshares—has recently announced that they will be partnering with their sister company, Century Properties, in launching their first auction in spring of 2010. The auction is set to be held [Read More]

Randy Kincaid Auction Company (www.kincaid.com) announces the absolute auction of a 6,500 square foot luxury home in Orlando, according to auctioneer Randy Kincaid. The auction is set for Thursday, January 21 at 1pm, with on-site bidding at 5750 Emerington Crescent, Orlando, Fla. Online bidding will be available through Proxibid.com/kincaid. “The house is [Read More]

On January 26th Bonhams will hold the first Maritime Sale to be presented at its New York galleries. Highly anticipated amongst collectors, this inaugural sale will focus solely on maritime related paintings and decorative arts. Featured in the nearly 200 lot sale will be an exceptional group of 19th century paintings, 19th [Read More]

The Tri-State Area’s premiere art handling service, Mana Fine Arts, will be on-site during the landmark auction of one-of-a-kind artifacts from Tavern on the Green. The auction, scheduled for January 13 and 14 after the famed Central Park dining spot shut down following a final New Year’s Eve party, will see some [Read More]

Bonhams is delighted to feature the ultimate motorcycle ‘Barn Find’ at The International Classic MotorCycle Show, Stafford on 25th April 2010 Bonhams is privileged to announce the sale of an original circa 1895 Hildebrand & Wolfmüller motorcycle at the first of its two annual Stafford auctions. Manufactured in Munich, Germany, the Hildebrand [Read More]

A group of postcard albums, which contains 100’s of cards also include some little gems of local interest, when they go under the Charterhouse hammer in Sherborne on Friday 22nd January. “We sell literally thousands of postcards throughout the year in our busy programme of auctions, but we always have a careful [Read More]

Copart Agrees to Purchase Bristol-based D Hales Limited Copart UK Limited announced today that it has agreed to acquire D Hales Limited, a Bristol-based vehicle salvage disposal company with five auction and auto parts facilities located in Bristol (Avonmouth), Bedford, Colchester, Gainsborough and Luton. Prior to this acquisition Copart owned 13 auction [Read More]

An American Flag carried to the moon on Apollo 12 astronauts Conrad, Gordon and Bean in Nov. 1969 will be auctioned with other NASA memorabilia owned by a former NASA employee at www.prwauctions.com Jan. 23, 2010. Apollo 12 Flag Carried to the Moon, 3″ x 6″ cloth flag, framed 8.25″ x 10.25,” [Read More]

(ABERDEEN, Miss.) – Two estate sales comprising over 1,000 mostly fresh-to-the-market lots will be held Jan. 23 and Feb. 20 by Stevens Auction Company, at the firm’s gallery facility located at 609 No. Meridian Street in Aberdeen. The Jan. 23 sale will be a strictly in-house event, with no online bidding component. [Read More]

Three 20th century paintings of the first America’s Cup sailing regatta of 1851, the oldest continuous sporting trophy in history, are highlights at The Marine Sale at Bonhams on 24th March 2010. The paintings, by Timothy Franklin Ross Thompson (British, born 1951), record three incidents in the race around the Isle of [Read More]

Famous street sign among lots in annual Gentleman’s Library sale The General Election phoney war is hotting up and Bonhams is offering a rare chance to buy a slice of British political history when a 19th Century Downing Street road sign comes under the hammer at its Gentleman’s Library Sale on 20 [Read More]

Bonhams, firmly established as a leader of the collectors’ motor car market having raised 10 million euros at Rétromobile in 2008 and 11,480,000 euros in 2009, once again has an impressive selection in Paris. The 35th Rétromobile exhibition will take place at Porte de Versailles from the 22nd – 31st January 2010, [Read More]

Richard Winterton Auctioneers are delighted to celebrate 10 successful years providing free valuations of all antiques and collectables in Sutton Coldfield town centre. The Lichfield based Auctioneers with over 150 years of auction pedigree commenced free valuation sessions at The Trinity Centre, Church Hill in 2000. These are held every Monday from [Read More]

Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and the auction of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 2 February 2010 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £56,505,000 to £80,805,000. The leading highlights include Gitane by Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) (estimate: £5.5 million to £7.5 million); Espagnole by Natalia [Read More]

Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 will be the first ever London sale of its kind to include three works individually estimated to realise more than £10 million. The works – each one a masterpiece – are by Klimt, Giacometti and Cézanne. They form the [Read More]

On Wednesday, February 3, 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale one of the most important landscapes by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) ever to have appeared on the market. Titled Kirche in Cassone (Landschaft mit Zypressen) (Church in Cassone – Landscape with Cypresses), 1913, it is the only surviving example of the artist’s [Read More]

Audatex North America, Inc. today announced an agreement with Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. (IAA), one of the leading North American salvage auto auction companies, to become its exclusive vendor for NMVTIS reporting. The Audatex solution will allow IAA to easily report required NMVTIS data on more than 1 million vehicles per year. [Read More]