Auction News

On Wednesday 9th December Bonhams Bond Street will host The Art of Jewels: Fine Jewellery and Iconic Gems. One of the major highlights of the sale will be a stunning pearl necklace, belonging to Lady Houston, the renowned philanthropist and benefactor. The impressive double-row necklace with graduated pearls is expected to fetch [Read More]

Collectors of fine photography were presented with several exceptional collecting opportunities at Bonhams’ highly anticipated Fine Photography sale on November 10th. Many of the 151 lots presented sparked strong bidding which resulted in a number of lots exceeding their pre-sale estimates. Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958), “Nude” (Charis, Santa Monica), 1936. Gelatin silver [Read More]

On December 3, Christie’s is pleased to offer The Country Music Sale featuring property from the Estate of Hank Thompson, the first sale dedicated to the creation, history, and evolution of Country Music. The foundation of the sale is property from the estate of Texas Swing Band leader, song writer and country [Read More]

Bonhams New York’s November 10th Contemporary and Modern sale was marked by excited international bidding and a number of outstanding performances. The most sought after lot of the sale proved to be a work by Pierre Soulages. Called “the painter of black” Soulages is known for striating the black surface of his [Read More]

Hodgins Auctioneers Inc. (HA-TSX.V) (“Hodgins” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that they, in partnership with Bingham Group Services Corp. (the administrator) and Unity Life of Canada (the underwriter), have developed a Life and Disability Creditor Insurance Protection Plan for Hodgins customers. Barrie Jung, President of Hodgins, is pleased to offer [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of Magnificent Jewels in New York on 9 December will offer stellar examples from every important segment of the jewelry market, including flawless white diamonds, artistic works by master jewelers such as Cartier, Louis Comfort Tiffany and JAR, and a magnificent Estate collection influenced by fashion icons of the 20th [Read More]

River Bluff, historically known as, “Old Agency Reserve,” contains approximately 450 acres on the Flint River and is one of the most important historical and recreational properties in the state of Georgia. Bidding starts Thursday, November 12, and it is to be immediately sold via sealed bid auction on November 19, 2009. [Read More]

Two magnificent pictures from the collection of celebrated author and co-founder of the SNP, Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) will be offered at Bonhams Fine Paintings Sale in Edinburgh on 4th December. Mackenzie, writer of much-loved Ealing Comedy Whisky Galore, among other noted works, was a neighbour of celebrated Scottish artists Sir William [Read More]

Bonhams is delighted to announce that they will be selling watches from the Private Collection of the Porsche Family in New Bond Street on the 2nd December with all proceeds donated to charity. Paul Maudsley, Director of the Watch Department at Bonhams, says: “Included in the 49 lots are watches by Eterna, [Read More]

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – – Nearly 750 lots – most of them quality, fresh to the market items from prominent local estates – will be sold at a Fine & Decorative Arts Cataloged Auction scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m., by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The auction will [Read More]

If you have ever said the phrase ‘as poor as a church mouse’, then you would have something in common with one of our greatest furniture craftsmen Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson (1876-1955). Thompson was a British furniture maker working in English oak. Based in Kilburn North Yorkshire, he is credited as an important [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of 19th-Century, Modern and Contemporary art, to be held in Amsterdam on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, will have at its core a group of works from a celebrated Dutch private collection. Put together over some 30 years with enormous commitment and discernment, this exceptional collection includes works by leading Dutch [Read More]

Last night at Sotheby’s in New York, Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece, 200 One Dollar Bills, brought a remarkable $43,762,500, soaring past the pre-sale estimate of $8/12 million. Competition was fierce. Auctioneer Tobias Meyer opened the bidding at $6 million and was immediately met with an almost unheard of response – a bid [Read More]

A RARE and almost unique 4-barrelled sporting gun by Charles Lancaster is expected to sell for £18,000-24,000 in Gavin Gardiner’s auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 in the Upper Grosvenor Galleries at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA. The sale will start at [Read More]

Ian Fleming’s revised typescript of Diamonds are Forever and a complete set of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack from the years 1864 to 1984 left bidders both shaken and stirred as they made astonishing prices at Bonhams Books and Manuscripts Sale, November 10, in London. The Fleming typescript was estimated to sell for [Read More]

Special Olympics Northern California will hold its 8th annual fundraising gala on Nov.13, 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco. Presented by Chevron Corp., the Spirit of the Season gala will help raise money for sports equipment, training and competition in 2010. More than 13,000 developmentally disabled children and adults [Read More]

California’s oldest and largest auctioneer, Bonhams & Butterfields, will offer contemporary art from the Golden State during the firm’s Made in California sale on November 17, 2009. Though regional in theme, artwork by internationally known artists such as John Altoon, Robert Arneson, Ruth Asawa, Claire Falkenstein, Sam Francis, Robert Graham, George Rodrigue, [Read More]

I.M. Chait is to offer more than 400 lots of exceptional Chinese and Japanese art on November 15. The collections are directed at both mid-level collectors and high-level connoisseurs seeking good and realistically priced investments. I.M. Chait’s sale leads with an extensive collection of Han and Tang Dynasty ritual pottery figures, now [Read More]