Auction News

Sotheby’s London will offer in its forthcoming Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History sale, to be held in London on Thursday 7th May 2009, a magnificent pair of 17th century terrestrial and celestial globes by the eminent globe-maker Vicenzo Coronelli (lot 121, est. £150,000-200,000), inspired by those he created for Louis XIV. [Read More]

Rediscovered Historic Object Estimated $60,000 to $80,000 BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, announces it will auction a 1947 Kentucky Derby 14 kt Gold Winner’s Trophy and Commemorative Mint Julep Cup, won by the American thoroughbred racehorse Jet Pilot, owned by [Read More]

The art of horology will be elegantly expressed on Tuesday, May 12, when Heritage Auction Galleries hosts its Signature Timepieces Auction at its’ uptown Dallas headquarters. This gathering of fine wristwatches and rare pocket watches marks the deepest Heritage watch auction to date, with top names – Patek Philipe, Audemars Piguet and [Read More]

Clarke’s Sixth Fine Art Auction of May 4, 2009, one week from today, will feature 300 lots of paintings, sculpture, signed prints, artist books, and antique frames. The Rare Rare works include the second John Beigel to appear at auction in the past 150 years; a John Henry Foley 1849 Famine sculpture [Read More]

The 1954 William Dargie Portrait of H.M. Elizabeth II will go on sale at Bonhams Australian and International Fine Art Sale in Melbourne on 6th May, where it is expected to fetch between £25,000-35,000. In 1954, Dargie was by then a seven-time winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture. For this, his [Read More]

Bonhams sold one of Atkinson Grimshaw’s finest paintings, a view of Headingley in Leeds, on 22nd April in a sale of 19th Century Paintings and Drawings at their Bond Street salerooms. The picture, `Autumn Afterglow’, was estimated to sell for £120,000 to £180,000 but outstripped that to make £240,000. John Atkinson Grimshaw [Read More]

A rare 1935 Bentley, one of only 2422 made between 1933-39, is going under the Charterhouse hammer in their sale of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia at The Bristol Classic Car Show at Shepton Mallet on Sunday 3rd May. “This Bentley offers a rare opportunity for a collector or enthusiast to own [Read More]

Stars For A Cause, a uniquely creative charity auction campaign, is set to showcase its collection of custom-made, hand-crafted jewellery and fashion accessories designed by a who’s-who list of Hollywood celebrities and worn on the red carpet by the likes of Goldie Hawn and William Shatner, among others. A preview of the [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its spring auction of Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art on May 4, 2009 in Los Angeles. The 170-lot sale, simulcast to the firm’s San Francisco gallery, should attract strong collector interest for its high quality and reasonably priced works by well-known artists. Highlights from the well [Read More]

A rare Beswick Merino ram is one of the highlights of the Charterhouse auction of Beswick and Royal Doulton in Sherborne on Friday 22nd May. “The Merino ram is one of the rarest of Beswick sheep ever produced. It was only available from 1964 until 1967 which is quite a short production [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is selling a single shield 450-foot long, 820-ton, self-propelling, hard rock tunnel boring machine (TBM) with trailing gear at an upcoming three-day unreserved auction in Los Angeles from May 20 to 22, 2009. The TBM is 19 feet in diameter and was built [Read More]

Christie’s Russian Art sale set a world auction record for Svetoslav Roerich with a painting of his father entitled, Portrait of Nicholas Roerich in a Tibetan Robe, 1933, which sold for $2,994,500. The painting led Russian Art week in New York, and exceeded the pre-sale high estimate of $1,100,000. The previous record [Read More]

Following the recent earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy, Sotheby’s in association with the Municipality of Milan, Mondadori Publishing House and Casaviva magazine will hold a charity auction on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 7pm of 70 chairs by some of the world’s most important designers, to raise funds for the people of Abruzzo. [Read More]

For the first time in its 44-year history, the world-famous Hollywood Wax Museum is offering hand-sculpted wax figures and original costumes for auction. Over 200 figures, including top stars, musicians, athletes, and historical individuals that have been seen by millions of visitors in Hollywood, CA and Branson, MO from the 1970s to [Read More]

Then, on June 13th, the living estate of Katherine Creamer, an antiques lover from Mobile, Alabama. After that — a pair of important on-site estate and property sales, in Oxford, Miss., and Macon, Miss. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The antique collections of three prominent old family estates from across the Deep South will [Read More]

100 photographs by 50 artists from 1850 to the present Estimates from $500 to $50,000 New York / Berlin – From April 24-30 artnet Online Auctions will feature April in Paris, a special sale of 100 photographs by 50 renowned artists including Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, André Kertész and Willy Ronis. Modern Masters [Read More]

VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct a large 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 [Read More]

Sotheby’s annual sale of American Indian Art, including Property from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal in New York will take place on May 20, 2009. The sale will feature several distinguished private collections, among them: The Estate of Herbert Wellington; Property from the Collection of Morton and Estelle Sosland, sold [Read More]