Auction News

Christie’s has announced the forthcoming Swiss Art sale is to be held on 21 September 2009. The auction comprises 153 lots spanning over four centuries of Swiss Art History. The evening sale offers numerous highlights by notable Swiss artists, including, amongst others, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Ferdinand Hodler, Giovanni Giacometti, Félix Vallotton, Hans [Read More]

More than 1,000 antique firearms enthusiasts attended Dan Morphy Auctions’ preview prior to the standing-room-only Aug. 14, 2009 sale of the late John Holman’s collection of 220 antique Kentucky rifles and powder horns. The selection of handmade rifles – many of them crafted by German immigrant gunsmiths of the 18th and 19th [Read More]

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers has announced a once in a lifetime opportunity for Elvis Presley collectors and fans. Over the years many collectors have asked, “Whatever happened to the Gary Pepper collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia?” Early in his career, Presley befriended Gary Pepper, a young man with cerebral palsy, who ultimately became [Read More]

The legendary Phil Hill’s son, Derek, drove the historic 1952 Jaguar C-Type, s/n XKC-007 to an auction world record last night, selling for $2,530,000 at RM’s Sports & Classics of Monterey event in California. XKC-007 was one of the first C-Types delivered to North America. In 1952, a young Phil Hill – [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it has been selected by Classic Motorcar Auction, LLC to provide live online bidding for the 2009 Ohio Summer Classic Car Auction. The two-day live auction event will take place Saturday, August 29 and Sunday, August 30 at 11:00 [Read More]

The championship-winning 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe CSX2601 has made history again, selling for a record-breaking $7.25 million at Mecum’s inaugural Monterey Auction on August 15, 2009. That price tag sets the record for the highest price paid for an American car at public auction. High performance collector car specialists Mecum Auction [Read More]

Martin Lawrence Galleries invites you to join them for the fall 2009 Fine Art Auctions. Now through September take advantage of the opportunity to choose from over 1000 available works by modern masters and contemporary artists such as Warhol, Picasso, Chagall, Haring, Rembrandt, Erte, Kondakova, Deyber, Hallam, and many, many others at [Read More]

Christie’s London will offer the collection of legendary Academy Award winning film producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005) on 7 October 2009 at their South Kensington salerooms. Ismail Merchant had a long and distinguished career working with the film director James Ivory. Their company, Merchant Ivory Productions, won 6 Oscars and 6 BAFTAs, making [Read More]

Christie’s London bi-annual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints in September will feature a fantastic variety of original prints from the Renaissance to the present day including well-known artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, Beckmann, Matisse, Miro, Bacon, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Hockney. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Les Deux Femmes Nues (M. [Read More]

RM Auctions kicked off Monterey’s famed classic car week at the Portola Hotel & Spa tonight with the distinguished Nick Alexander Woodie Collection achieving in excess of $7 million in total sales. The four-hour auction attracted spirited bidding as 51 magnificent pre- and post-war Ford & Mercury wood-bodied station wagons crossed the [Read More]

One of the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered will be offered by international auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields on Saturday, October 3, 2009 during the company’s first Natural History auction to be held at The Venetian® in Las Vegas. The auction will contain approximately 50 lots of fossils with the centerpiece [Read More]

Remodel Auction, Inc. , in a bid of its own to be a leader in online home improvement pricing technology, announced today the launch of its proprietary bidding system for the Weatherization Program in North Carolina. In compliance with state and federal ethics rules North Carolina does not endorse any specific contractor [Read More]

Southwest Airlines confirmed today that its bid to acquire Frontier Airlines was not selected. Southwest submitted a bid of more than $170 million to Frontier Airlines on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, in accordance with the procedures established in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. “We said all [Read More]

VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other agencies that are participating include: U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service and Secret Service. Proceeds from the auction are [Read More]

On August 22, 2009, Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals, located in Radford, VA, will host its Summer 2009 Catalogue Sale – Coins Auction live online with Artfact Live!. In this fascinating sale, Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals will offer more than 150 lots of rare coins and currency. A $1,000 Federal Reserve [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2009 will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 3 to 8 October 2009. This sales series will offer over 2,300 lots of Modern and Contemporary Chinese and Southeast Asian Art, traditional Chinese paintings, fine Chinese ceramics and works of art as well [Read More]

(IVOR, Va.) – Several prominent local estates – including one with collections that span multiple generations – will be sold at auction on Saturday, Sept. 12, by Jay & Wilma’s Local Estates, based in nearby Wakefield. The sale will be held at the Ivor Municipal Building, located at 8420 Bell Avenue. Ivor [Read More]

Perillo Auction and Liquidation Services, Inc. ( www.PerilloAuction.com ) announces the fax-bid auction of a 98-acre landscape and tree farm, according to Fran Brunelle, president. The property consists of a beautifully and fully renovated 4 bedroom 3.5 bath home with over $350,000 worth of renovations. The 98 acres host 70,000 landscape trees [Read More]