Auction News

VANCOUVER – Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers conducted the largest Australian auction in Company history this week, selling AU$55 million (US$52 million) of cranes, heavy equipment and trucks during a two-day unreserved public auction at its Brisbane auction site on June 24 & 25, 2008. Ritchie Bros. (www.rbauction.com), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is [Read More]

LONDON – Coinciding with the Master Drawings London, Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Drawings on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 will bring to the market a range of rare and important drawings from the 16th to the 19th centuries, encompassing all European schools. The sale will be spearheaded by an early and rare [Read More]

Winemakers Turn Out for the Biggest Wine Auction Events of the Year SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwire – June 16, 2008) – Tickets go on sale June 13 for the 2008 Auction of Washington Wines, the must attend Washington wine weekend of the summer! This year the Auction celebrates the Coming of Age of Washington [Read More]

Tickets Now on Sale at www.marinwineauction.com SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Tickets are now available for the first annual Marin Wine Auction, which will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008 at the Marin Art and Garden Center in Ross, Marin County. The inaugural event will be hosted by the Keiretsu Forum Charitable [Read More]

Original 1960’s Rock & Roll Art Takes Top Billing in LA A star-studded line up of Entertainment Memorabilia including Animation Art was offered and sold at auction on June 16th in Los Angeles. Within the spotlight of the Bonhams & Butterfields sale’s top lots was property related to Hollywood icons Marilyn Monroe, [Read More]

ORRICK, Mo – When Donald Potter first bought the Mudhole Duck Club, it was already established as one of Missouri’s top waterfowl hunting grounds. But its productivity took a major leap after Potter installed wells and valves that enabled him to flood areas at will for the best possible hunting. Now, Potter [Read More]

SAN FRANCISCO – Purple Wave, the “click and mortar” auction company, announced that the company has recently expanded its operation to cover six U.S. states, including locations in Sierra, NV; Dallas, TX; Kansas City, Wichita and Hays, KS; Thomas, OK; and Pueblo West, CO. These new locations are in addition to Purple [Read More]

LONDON – Indian artists such as Subodh Gupta (b. 1964), Bharti Kher (b. 1969), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Raqib Shaw (b. 1974) and T.V. Santhosh (b. 1968) are an ever-growing force in Sotheby’s international sales of Contemporary Art – in addition to the company’s regular dedicated sales of Indian Art – and [Read More]

LONDON – Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale which took place on the evening off 24 June 2008 realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 – the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by [Read More]

Two modes of transport, which could not be further apart, are included in the Charterhouse auction of automobilia, classic cars and motorbikes in Sherborne on Saturday 12th July. “First up is a Penny Farthing bicycle. Also know as an Ordinary or High bicycle, this form of pedal power was first invented in [Read More]

NEW YORK – Christie’s Pop Culture auction on June 25 in New York will include a range of collectibles celebrating the diverse nature of American popular culture — from 1930s comic strips to the current craze for vinyl designer toys. The sale will offer approximately 330 lots of Hollywood memorabilia, Rock and [Read More]

An unprecedented collection of historic sports, racing and custom cars and classic motorcycles crossed the block in Tustin, California over the weekend as RM Auctions proudly offered the esteemed ‘Joe’s Garage – The MacPherson Collection’ for auction. Many of the sale highlights exceeded expectations including a supercharged 1923 Miller 122 that sold [Read More]

LARCHMONT, NY, – On Monday June 30, Clarke’s final auction of the spring season will again offer 400+ lots, with fine art and antiques drawn from a single owner Westchester estate and additions from homes in Rowayton, Central Park West and Roslyn Long Island. Fine art includes paintings and sculpture by or [Read More]

Jay Marshall’s legendary collection of magicana is still trying to find a new home. In May, 2007, a small portion of Marshall’s horde was auctioned off at the annual Magic Collectors’ Weekend in suburban Chicago. The sale grossed nearly $300,000. For those that missed an opportunity to bid last year, another is [Read More]

artnet launches Photographic Portraits Sale featuring 20 photographs of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, and other iconic figures by 15 renowned photographers including Allan Grant, Herman Leonard, Irving Penn, and Bill Ray New York / Berlin – From June 20–30 artnet Online Auctions will feature a special sale of Photographic Portraits [Read More]

The very first production Jaguar D-Type to roll off the line in 1955 will star in Bonhams’ Goodwood Festival of Speed sale on 11 July. The 1955 3.4-litre Jaguar D-Type Sports-Racing Two-Seater, chassis no. XKD 509, was raced in the USA by Lou Brero Sr in 1956 – 57. It was subsequently [Read More]

Cheffins Summer Fine Art Sale saw good prices throughout this two day auction. English pottery began the sale – lot 5 a late C19th Doulton ‘Pure Milk’ bucket, 41.5cm diameter finally made £1,900. A large collection of Staffordshire also attracted much attention and made very good prices throughout, with an early C19th [Read More]

Cheffins Auctioneers will be holding a Pictures & Books Sale on Thursday 10th July with a diverse range of interesting books. The most important C17th English work of political philosophy is already attracting much attention, a first edition, first issue London copy of Hobbes (Thomas)’Leviathan Or The Matter, and a Power of [Read More]