Auction News

Bloomsbury Auctions presents its first New York sale of Post War Art on Wednesday, March 4th at 2pm. This sale will feature a highly select group of works by post-war cutting-edge masters and include 83 lots of drawings, paintings, prints and multiples from the post World War II period. Of exceptional note [Read More]

The 1952 Cadillac Allard J2 Roadster raced by Carroll Shelby is on its way to the auction block at the 22nd annual Dana Mecum Original Spring Classic Auction taking place May 13-17, 2009, in Indianapolis, Ind. Featuring a 331 cubic-inch Cadillac V-8 engine and 3-speed manual transmission, the Allard J2 has a [Read More]

The Serial #1 50th Anniversary Hurst/Viper sold for a record-breaking $250,000 at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. The highly-collectible Viper, built by the Woodhouse Auto Family and Hurst Performance Vehicle Group, sold for the highest price ever for any Hurst vehicle or Viper at a Barrett-Jackson auction. The [Read More]

Sotheby’s London has announced the recent discovery of a rare and important oil painting by Johann Zoffany among the exquisite collection of furniture and Works of Art from Gianni Versace’s Lake Como Villa, which is to be offered for sale on Wednesday 18th March 2009. Portrait of Major George Maule, Acting Chief [Read More]

A novelty clock reputed to be a gift to a groundsman at Chelsea Football Club in 1955, following the team’s success in the league championship is for sale at Bonhams on 10th March in Knightsbridge. A mid 20th century novelty clock in the form of a football with raised Arabic numerals sitting [Read More]

Flower Designs For The Wedding Of Edward To Mrs. Simpson As Well As That Of The Queen Elizabeth II And Princess Anne Some 30 Items once owned by the society flower designer of choice, Constance Spry, whose creations added colour to royal weddings and state occasions, will be sold by Bonhams in [Read More]

GlobalAutoIndustry.com, the leading worldwide portal and intelligence source for the automotive industry, today announced that it has created an online auction service for manufacturing companies to liquidate their excess inventory and generate revenue in these tough economic times. The online auction service creates an instant pipeline to 34,000 automotive industry executives worldwide [Read More]

Charity auctions typically offer high-value items to spur bidding that benefits a worthy cause. But what unfolded at the 3rd annual Boca Raton Concours d’ Elegance auction really stood out. The Florida gala to raise money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County featured the opportunity to own the first [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest on-site and online industrial auctioneer, is holding a three-day unreserved industrial equipment auction from March 25 to 27, 2009 at its brand new permanent auction site in Houston (15500 Eastex Freeway). The Company has been conducting unreserved public auctions at its former site off the [Read More]

Lenox Group Inc. (“Lenox”) and Clarion Capital Partners, LLC (“Clarion”) announced today that a group led by Clarion has won the bankruptcy auction to acquire substantially all the assets of Lenox, the well-known china, tabletop and giftware manufacturer and marketer. Peter Cameron, previously the CEO of Waterford Wedgwood plc and All-Clad Metalcrafters [Read More]

This April, the Vassar campus will become an outpost of a Haitian village, with the eighth annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction. Presented by the Vassar Haiti Project, over 300 paintings, sculptures, handcrafts, and hand-painted silk scarves will be on view and for sale in the College Center’s multi-purpose room from Friday, [Read More]

Over 1,000 items of modern collectable china, kitchenware and glassware are to be sold at Tennants over the next couple of weeks. Over 70 lots will be split into two of their weekly antique and home furnishing sales on 28 February and the majority on 14 March. This large collection was instructed [Read More]

IronPlanet® (www.ironplanet.com), the world’s leading online auction company for used construction and agricultural equipment, continued to gain significant marketplace momentum in 2008, with gross auction sales of $337 million, an increase of 43 percent over 2007. Fourth-quarter gross auction sales totaled $96 million, up 26 percent over the third quarter and up [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company has announced that Marc Newson’s seminal work, Lockheed Lounge, 1985 will be offered at Phillips de Pury & Company’s London Design sale on April 30. Marc Newson’s Lockheed Lounge, LC1, 1985 will be offered with a pre-sale estimate of £500,000 – 700,000. Made from a fiberglass core [Read More]

Stunning Fashion Watches and New-to-Market Pieces Featured Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of fine jewelry at its Boston gallery on Tuesday, March 17th at 10:00 a.m. The sale will feature unique antique, Renaissance Revival and Art Deco jewelry items from Tiffany & Co., Boucheron and [Read More]

OPENLANE, Inc., a leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles, is using the innovative technology and services behind its CarsArrive transportation network to help maximize the efficiency of online auction transactions for dealers and consignors across North America. Since the acquisition of the [Read More]

South Florida’s prestigious Bal Harbour Shops, featuring fashion’s top designers and the highest concentration of world-class jewelers and watches in the nation, presents an amazing collection of dazzling treasures for Destination Fashion 2009’s silent auction that kicks off on Thursday, February 26, benefiting The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the national fundraising [Read More]

H.E.A.R.T. (www.cachheart.org) hosts its annual Art Auction and Gala on Saturday, March 14, 2009. The event, which takes place at Stagecoach Village, 7100 E. Cave Creek Road, in Cave Creek, Arizona, will begin with a silent art auction, cocktails and hors d’ouevres at 7:00pm, followed by a $125 a plate dinner and [Read More]