Auction News

Every week more than 3,000 people in the U.S. lose an arm or a leg. Of those impacted, many find themselves with insufficient coverage or lack of insurance to cover the pricey prosthetic limbs needed to resume their daily lives. The Limbs for Life Foundation was created to bring awareness to the [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company’s London Contemporary Art sales concluded with satisfying results which confirm the demand for top works of contemporary art. The Contemporary Art Evening Sale totaled £4,213,250 with 59% sold by value and 66% sold by lot and the Contemporary Art Day Sale totaled £1,607,500 with 81% sold by [Read More]

Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will offer a varied selection of American and European Paintings on Friday, March 6th in its Boston gallery located at 63 Park Plaza. With more than 850 lots of paintings, prints, photography and sculpture, the sale has something [Read More]

Auction to Feature Classic Bordeaux, DRC, and Champagne Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, will hold an exciting Single-Owner auction of French Classics from a Magnificent Cellar on March 28th at award-winning restaurant Tru in Chicago. The carefully acquired offering, removed from ideal storage, represents [Read More]

(Litchfield, Conn.) – Tim’s, Inc. — the big auction house with the unassuming name – will hold its 17th annual Cabin Fever Auction on Saturday, March 28, at the Litchfield Firehouse on Route 202 in Litchfield, beginning at 11:30 a.m. “We call it the Cabin Fever Auction because folks need a good [Read More]

The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company recently announced that it helped raise $4.4 million for local and national charities during the 38th annual Scottsdale auction Jan. 11-18, 2009. Funds at the automotive lifestyle event were gathered through the sale of 15 collector vehicles, crowd donations and fundraisers like the Childhelp Drive The Dream Gala. [Read More]

Sotheby’s London has announced the sale on Wednesday 18th March, 2009, of the exquisite collection of furniture and Works of Art from the home of Gianni Versace on the shores of Lake Como, Villa Fontanelle, Moltrasio. One of fashion’s most internationally celebrated designers, Gianni Versace’s style and creative flair was exemplified in [Read More]

Today Reebok and Super Bowl XLIII MVP Santonio Holmes announced the winner of a charity auction hosted on Reebok.com. Football fans all over the world had the opportunity to bid on autographed gloves, the pair that Holmes was wearing when he hauled in the Super Bowl-winning catch. The auction raised more than [Read More]

Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announced today it will auction a 20,000-square-foot building with high-rise development potential at 326 N. Michigan Ave. The three-story Mather building is located just two blocks from Millennium Park in a prime development area and may be the only developable parcel on North Michigan Avenue available in [Read More]

(Aberdeen, Miss.) – The lifetime collection of the late Ken Wadginski – a decorated war veteran who retired to the forgotten rural town of Hollow Rock, Tenn., and ended up buying many of the stores and buildings there – will be sold on Saturday, Mar. 28, by Stevens Auction Company. The auction [Read More]

Leonard Joel has launched an appeal to its clients and other members of the public to consign art, antiques and jewellery to auction in a bid to help the victims of the Victorian Bushfires. Leonard Joel is appealing to those sellers to donate the proceeds to the St Vincent de Paul Society’s [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman’s fine art auction in Adelaide has defied market trends and provided new confidence to art collectors and dealers. Over 300 people crowded the sale room for the 479 lot sale. A further 400 absentee and telephone bids were left on the books by people unable to make the sale. [Read More]

Collectors with a love for fine Japanese screens are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to bid on exceptional lots from the Estate of Liza Hyde, a beloved New York dealer who passed away in December 2008. The auction, comprising 200 lots, will take place in Bonhams New York’s Madison Ave. salesrooms on March [Read More]

Bloomsbury’s handsome 591 lot sale of Children’s Books, Private Press & Limited editions, Livres d’Artistes, Modern Illustrated Books and Original Art Work on 26th February, in London is made up of items from a wide variety of private collections most of which have not been on the market for many decades. Derain [Read More]

The first Signature® Stamps Auction in more than 15 years at Heritage Auction Galleries, Feb. 5-7, proved a $1.4 million success, with the company’s one-of-a-kind post-auction buys continuing to push the total beyond $1.5 million. Collectors from around the nation, having waited 15 years to see the Heritage name back in rare [Read More]

When I.M. Chait opens the doors of its annual temporary headquarters at 267 Fifth Avenue on March 17, it will unveil one of the finest collections of Asian Works of Art Isadore Chait has seen in his firm’s 40-year history. From the catalogue cover lot—a superb 18th Century Jade Mountain formerly in [Read More]

In a bid to help underserved children, the Children’s Health Fund (CHF) held an online auction of the Ysio Digital Radiology System, donated by Siemens. Bidding for the state-of-the-art machine started at $99,999 and jumped to a quarter million dollars in the first ten days. See video from Siemens at: http://inr.mediaseed.tv/oneClip_C/?feed=EEHPWrm_uGEQOCdpx2JU_mPv2Er3Cvod The [Read More]

Sotheby’s has announced that it is to sell the Pearl Carpet of Baroda, one of the most extraordinary masterpieces of its kind ever to come on the market. The carpet will form the centrepiece of Sotheby’s inaugural series of sales in Doha and be sold alongside other objects in the Arts of [Read More]