Auction News

On December 8 Christie’s celebrates New York’s Historical Design Gallery and surveys the entire modern movement with selected iconic designs spanning the late 19th, 20th and 21st centuries including French ceramics, New York related objects, Scandinavian Design, photographs, American Mid-Century Design and Bauhaus. The auction contains 197 lots, with the majority offered [Read More]

This year’s fall auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on 26 November 2009 with over 180 lots for sale in Modern and Contemporary photography. After the successful spring sale of photographs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, Grisebach now presents an additional Vintage print of the architect’s famous [Read More]

On December 4 and December 9, Christie’s New York will present three sales offering over 550 lots of important and rare books, manuscripts, and maps from distinguished private collections. The first day of sales begins with part II of The William E. Self Library of important English and American Literature and immediately [Read More]

Prominent private and institutional collections are the source for a stellar line-up of works to be offered at Christie’s sale of Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture on December 2, 2009 in New York. Lead highlights of the sale include a significant and deeply personal work by the late Andrew Wyeth that [Read More]

The hat and shoes worn by Michael Jackson at his famous 2001 Madison Square concert will go on sale at Bonhams 16th December auction of Entertainment Memorabilia in Knightsbridge and are estimated to fetch as much as £12,000. The Madison square garden concerts took place over two days and finished the night [Read More]

Christie’s will present two sales of ancient art, Antiquities and Ancient Jewelry in New York, on December 11 featuring over 350 lots showcasing the broad range of works from Predynastic Egypt through to the Roman period. Highlights of the Antiquities sale include a stunning Roman marble torso of Venus, a Roman marble [Read More]

Christie’s New York will offer a highly important George Washington letter to his trusted nephew Bushrod Washington, in the sale of Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana on December 4 (estimate: $1.5-2.5 million). The revealing, four-page letter has never been publicly exhibited and has remained in the possession of English descendants [Read More]

Sotheby’s December 3 sale in Paris reflects a successful encounter between several African art enthusiasts – two collectors, a journalist and a scientist – united by the fate of an exceptional Dogon figure (Plateau of Bandiagara, Mali) that had been split into two for nearly 50 years on either side of the [Read More]

The four-day sale of the Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, part II, at Theatre Marigny in Paris offered by Christie’s in association with Pierre Bergé & Associates auctioneers, realized in total € 8,990,213 / £ 7,978,814 / $ 13,449,358. A remarkable 98% of lots sold, and the sale was [Read More]

National Commercial Auctioneers LLC, (NCA) (www.natcomauctions.com), who does business as NCA Auctioneers, LLC in Texas, is selling at auction a .723 acre tract with full service operating car wash on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, at 11am. The car wash, which was updated in 2002, is a single lane exterior facility including a [Read More]

(WINSTED, Conn.) – One of the largest single-owner lifetime collections of model airplanes in existence – well over 1,000 examples, some unassembled and still in their original boxes – will be sold at an on-site auction slated for Sunday, Dec. 6, at 12 noon. The auction will be held by Tim’s, Inc., [Read More]

Property from Important Private Collectors to be Offered Bonhams & Butterfields brings antique arms and armor and modern sporting guns to auction in San Francisco on November 23, 2009. The 800-lot sale features pistols; rifles; edged weapons; suits of armor; militaria and historic weaponry in use during the 16th and 17th centuries; [Read More]

Local San Diego non-profit It’s All about the Kids Foundation recently launched an online auction site which will raise money for the foundation and the children’s programs for the charities it supports. Celebrity memorabilia items such as a signed Nirvana Guitar and a glove and robe signed by Evander Holyfield are included [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields’ Made in California auction on November 17, 2009 did especially well, signaling that the market for California art remains strong. Regardless of the auction’s regional theme, telephone bidders from around the globe vied for works by the golden state’s leading modern and contemporary artists. The sale, which was simulcast [Read More]

An original 289 Shelby Cobra, CSX2091, and the first production 1966 Shelby GT350, will headline a docket of spectacular cars slated to be sold at No Reserve during the 39th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale on Jan. 18-24, 2010, at WestWorld. Hailed as “The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions(TM),” the [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated today announced an agreement to acquire the auction business and certain assets of Martella Auction Company, Inc., a Tipton, California-based auctioneer of agricultural and industrial equipment. Ritchie Bros. also intends to enter into an agreement to lease the roughly 65 acre Martella auction site. The acquisition is intended [Read More]

Christie’s announced the auction Magnificent Tiffany featuring Property from the Gluck Collection will be held as part of its 20th-Century Decorative Art & Design sales on December 8, 2009. On February 17, 1979, Christie’s held the landmark sale Magnificent Tiffany Featuring The Gluck Collection, the first major Tiffany offering at auction. The [Read More]

Seasoned collectors and new bidders from across the United States and around the globe vied for Modern, Contemporary and Latin American works of art at Bonhams & Butterfields on November 17, 2009 in Los Angeles. Simulcast to the firm’s San Francisco auction rooms, the more than 200-lot auction attracted strong buyer interest [Read More]