Auction News

Sotheby’s Amsterdam will, going forward, hold two sales of Old Master Paintings every year (one in May and the second in December) and the first of these new-format sales will be held on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 2p.m. This sale will comprise some 69 lots – many with exemplary provenance having [Read More]

Audrey Hepburn was not just a film star – she was a major style icon of the 20th Century. Simplicity and seemingly effortless elegance was her trademark. Ably aided and abetted by the young couturier Hubert de Givenchy, she became the personification of chic elegance in the 1950s and 60s. Givenchy said [Read More]

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale totaled $74,151,500/£44,669,578/€49,766,107. Works by artists Peter Doig, Jeff Koons, and Joan Mitchell commanded the top prices. In addition, new world record prices were set for works on paper by Philip Guston, and Brice Marden and a drawing by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Marc Porter, President of Christie’s [Read More]

Kick-start the holiday season with the makers of Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream by celebrating the two things women find most irresistible about a holiday get-together — amazing party shoes and a delicious drink. The Baileys Holiday Shoe Collection of one-of-a-kind Baileys-inspired designs will be sold via online auction to benefit Clothes Off [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its fall auction of Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art on November 17, 2009 in Los Angeles. Simulcast to the firm’s San Francisco gallery, the over 200-lot sale should attract strong collector interest for its high quality and reasonably priced works by well-known artists. Highlights from the [Read More]

New York / Berlin, November 10, 2009 – From November 10-19 artnet Auctions is featuring Faces & Figures, a special sale of 375 photographs by 185 renowned modern & contemporary artists. The works offered in the sale celebrate the human form as seen through the lens of some of the greatest photographers [Read More]

There is no stamp – perhaps no collectible in general – more famous than the legendary #C3a, or the “Inverted Jenny,” as it’s more commonly known. And there is, perhaps, no “Jenny” more famous than the one that Colonel E.H.R. “Ned” Green placed in a locket for his beloved wife, Mabel, in [Read More]

An extensive single-owner collection of over 800 lots and 3,000 individual items, amassed during the height of the Northern Ireland conflict, will go up for sale at a two-day no-reserve auction at Bonhams Edinburgh on 11th and 12th November. One of the notable highlights of the sale is Summer Breeze, a pen [Read More]

On Monday, November 16th at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction, will open its Seventh Fine Art Auction to live, telephone and left bids; as well as online Internet bidding. Clarke, known for discovering the exceptional, is again offering works by artists rarely if ever seen at auction. African-American Fine Art, a Clarke strength, [Read More]

Randy Kincaid Auction Company (www.kincaid.com) announces the absolute auction of assets from Suncoast Silks, Inc., according to auctioneer Randy Kincaid. The auction will run two days, November 16 and 17, with on-site bidding at 12845 44th Street North in Clearwater. Online bidding will be available through Proxibid for large lots, pallets, pottery, [Read More]

Sotheby’s Greek sale in London realized £3,925,175 (€4,380,882). Four new auction records were established (for works by Spyros Vassiliou, Georgios Zongolopoulos, Constantin Xenakis, and Konstantino Byzantios), with almost 37% of the works sold achieving prices in excess of high estimate. Constantine Frangos, Senior Director and Head of Greek Sales at Sotheby’s, said: [Read More]

Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC. has announced an Auction of Important Russian and American art to be held in New York on November 22nd, 2009, starting at 12:00 PM EST. The auction will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion, located at 123 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, on the Fifth Floor. [Read More]

But first, an important estate sale will be held on Friday, Nov. 27, at 1 p.m., in Oceanside, New York. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – The original marriage certificate issued to Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley on May 26, 1994 in the Dominican Republic, where the couple embarked on their brief but highly [Read More]

Heritage Auctions, on behalf of the American Red Cross, will auction off the one and only Rose Percy, an historic and beloved wax doll originally sold in 1864 as a benefit for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. It will be featured in Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 17 Political & Americana Auction, and is estimated [Read More]

(LITCHFIELD, Conn.) – A major auction to help finish the interior of the new addition to the Litchfield Firehouse will be held Saturday, Nov. 21, beginning at 5 p.m. at the firehouse, located at 258 West Street. The auction will be conducted by Tim’s, Inc., of nearby Bristol. The sale will feature [Read More]

Carfax announced today that DealerTrack Inventory Optimization, powered by AAX, has integrated access to Carfax Auction Quick Check. With this new functionality, auction buyers can quickly get key vehicle history details such as ownership history, branded title information and damage records reported to Carfax. Using this information, dealers can better evaluate online [Read More]

Lion’s Gate, a magnificent 23,000-square-foot architectural masterpiece, situated in an extraordinary recreational setting within the coveted gated community of Sea Horse Ranch on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, will be sold at public auction by New York based Sheldon Good & Company — America’s Real Estate Auctioneer. The auction has [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is privileged to announce the consignment of cars from discerning and eclectic collector Sam Garrett for their forthcoming sale at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles on November 14th. Known for having invented the mascara brush for women by taking a brush used in the maintenance of camera [Read More]