On Tuesday 19th May Bonhams, in association with Dan Klein Associates, will be holding its inaugural sale of Modern and Contemporary Glass, the first of its kind in the UK. The decision follows the sale in 2007 of a piece of contemporary glass by Bonhams in New York, a cast glass sculpture [Read More]
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Buyers with a taste for the rare and the exotic flocked to Waterloo on Sunday 1st March where the lifetime collection of Joan Bowers, went up for auction. A glorious array of artifacts, antiques and furniture, sourced primarily from India and assembled over 30 years, took just under 5 hours to sell [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions presents their second Photographs sale in New York with a curated selection of historic, modern and contemporary work in addition to a new section dedicated to Photographic Editions. Bloomsbury Auctions is delighted to announce a various owner auction of extraordinary photographs in its New York City headquarters on 2 April [Read More]
Clarke’s Monday March 9th Auction features decorator and custom pieces from the Hotel Pierre suite of Lord Hanson, American Empire furniture from Larchmont; a period gilt-bronze French Empire clock with an Apollonian attributes from Bronxville and great period bronze and rock crystal lighting. Midcentury Design From the Hotel Pierre suite of Lord [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s forthcoming Fine Chinese Painting Spring Sale 2009 will be held on 5th April 2009 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The sale will present exceptional works by outstanding artists from 19th to 20th century, comprising of collections namely ‘Reminiscence – 35 Years of Chinese Paintings in Sotheby’s [Read More]
High performance collector car specialists Mecum Auction will offer collectors a chance to own a piece of American race history when they auction the 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe CSX2601 at the 22nd Dana Mecum Original Spring Classic Auction taking place May 13-17, 2009, in Indianapolis, Ind. And when this Crown Jewel [Read More]
(Oceanside, N.Y.) – An astounding 2,000 lots – mostly fresh-to-the-market merchandise from prominent estates and collections – will be sold at auctions planned for Mar. 28-29 and Apr. 4 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The sales will be conducted at the firm’s spacious gallery, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, N.Y. Bids [Read More]
On March 30th Sotheby’s will offer a fine selection of photographs ranging from one of the earliest images of New York City, to a modernist work by László Moholy-Nagy, to iconic images by photographic provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. Also included will be images by many of the 20th century’s top photographers including Robert [Read More]
(Dickinson, Tex.) – While the business pages are filled with stories about a collapsed housing market, massive job layoffs and an economy in seeming free-fall, LL Auctions reports it is off to a record start so far for 2009. The firm, based in Dickinson, Tex., just south of Houston, specializes in estates, [Read More]
Never before auctioned space flown mementos from the personal collection of John Young – the first man to fly into space six times, one of only three men to fly to the moon twice, and the only man to pilot four different classes of spacecraft – will highlight the April 1 Space [Read More]
Toronto-based online auction and e-commerce management solution, Kyozou, announces plans for full integration of its online auction technology with Bidtopia. Currently, Kyozou’s tool works with eBay, Amazon and Overstock, among others. “We have had numerous requests for Kyozou to support alternate marketplaces and our partnership with Bidtopia is our first effort to [Read More]
Sotheby’s Inaugural sale of Turkish Contemporary Art realised the strong total of £1,307,400 ($1,838,597) against a pre-sale estimate of £1.1-1.5 million and saw several works more than double their pre-sale high estimates. Over 60 clients registered to bid in the auction, which was 78.5% sold by value and 70.8% sold by lot, [Read More]
A new online auction dedicated to selling and buying cars for export – CarsPal.com – will be launched on June 1. The exceptionally different approach to automobile auction service makes CarsPal stand out of the analogous web-auctions. The main features of the resource are promised to satisfy every car buyer and seller, [Read More]
Currently ongoing at iGavel is The Santa Barbara Auction, presented by Alexander Rose Fine Art & Antiques. Highlights of this auction include a Austrian Biedermeier Fruitwood Settee, 19th Century, estimated at $2,000-$3,000 with a starting bid of only $750. A Laver Kirman Rug, Early 20th Century, estimated at $600-$800, has a starting [Read More]
(St. Louis, Mo.) – Nearly 450 lots of mostly Victorian lamps and antique glass will be sold on Saturday, Apr. 4, by Woody Auction at the Holiday Inn Airport West in Earth City, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis located five miles from the airport. Headlining the auction will be the estate [Read More]
The estate of Theo Snoddy, the esteemed Irish art critic and author (1922-2008), will sell ‘The Saw Sharpener’ by Jack Butler Yeats for £60,000 to £80,000 (approx €65,000-85,000) through Bonhams in association with James Adam’s in Dublin on May 27th in an auction of Important Irish Art. This fine oil by Jack [Read More]
Clarke’s Sixth Fine Art Auction on May 4, 2009, is expected to be its strongest to date. The ten-year old Larchmont company was confident based on its successful Fifth Fine Art Auction, which flew in the face of a rocky outlook for the fine art market. However, the depth and breadth of [Read More]
(Hillsborough, N.C.) – Nearly 625 quality consignments, most of them drawn from prominent Southern estates, will be sold in a quarterly cataloged auction slated for Saturday, March 21, by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. Offered will be fine art, period furniture, sterling silver, books, clocks, watches, estate jewelry and antique [Read More]