Auction News

Almost € 100 000* was the sum paid by a connoisseur of art and women from southern Europe for the small (36.2 x 36.2 cm) but exquisite Martial Raysse “Mädchenkopf” [“Head of a Girl”]. Thus he ensured that the estimate of € 40 000 was more than doubled at the Ketterer Kunst [Read More]

PITTSBURGH – From haute couture to autographed sports memorabilia, there is something for everyone on the Project Bundle-Up online auction. In its second year of online bidding, the former live televised broadcast has now gone to the web to reach even more people in the convenience of their own homes. Founded 22 [Read More]

MILAN – Following the world record for the great “View of Piazza Navona, Roma” by Ippolito Caffi, (Sotheby’s Milan, June 2007, € 1,588,800), this time in the 19th century Paintings sale there is another beautiful Roman painting by Caffi: “The Pope benediction from St. Peter’s Basilica”. Created in 1857, two years after [Read More]

Reston, VA – WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that World’s Fair Auction has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, World’s Fair Auction will provide WorthPoint with upcoming and historical auction data to be published on the WorthPoint web site. With [Read More]

MONROVIA, California – Preeminent international auction house, RM Auctions is delighted to announce the addition of Bob Mosier to their team of car specialists. A pillar of the California collector car scene and the founder of Mosier Restoration Inc, Mosier brings a wealth of experience to RM having spent the past four [Read More]

Bestcent.co.uk is a new innovation that offers extremely cheap items to its customers in UK. Bestcent.co.uk introduces a new type of a bidding war auction. It will be the first so called one-penny-auction in Britain. It differs from traditional lowest unique bids by its minimum price for every item on the site [Read More]

Munich – The sum total of their ages is nearly 300 years: three ladies who ensured top prices at today’s Ketterer Kunst auction in Munich. While Heidi Klum has yet to pick her winner on television, “Mädchen mit blauem Schal” (“Girl with a Blue Scarf”)(pictured), painted by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in 1909, has [Read More]

(Northport, Ala.) – A dazzling 2.20-carat Marquise diamond ring set in white gold, with a total weight of 4.69 carats and carrying an appraised value of around $40,000, slipped onto a new finger for $18,700 at a multi-estate sale held May 4 by Hal Hunt Auctions. The auction was held at Hal [Read More]

Dallas, TX – Heritage Auction Galleries has selected winners in their 2008 Currency Auction Survey. Kelly Gobin of New Hampshire, the Grand Prize winner, received a Crisp Uncirculated $1000 bill. Additionally, Crisp Uncirculated 1929 National Bank Notes were awarded to members of the American Numismatic Association and the Society of Paper Money [Read More]

Dallas, TX – Heritage Auction Galleries auctioned over $2.5 million of Russian fine art in its inaugural Russian auction, held at its Design District gallery in Dallas, Texas on June 4, 2008. Headlining the auction was the sale of Mikhail Klodt’s 1858 masterpiece painting Riverside Farmstead which sold for $1,314,500 (including buyer’s [Read More]

MILL VALLEY, Calif – BioArts International is launching an unusual global online auction July 5th-9th. The auction item is rarer than a 1937 Mercedes Benz Roadster, a red diamond or an original Shakespeare manuscript. Five successful bidders, who bid over $100,000, will have their best friend, their beloved dog, cloned. Is it [Read More]

LONDON- Christie’s London is proud to announce a particularly fresh and multi-faceted celebration of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art in June 2008. Twelve works will be offered from The Harmony Art Foundation in association with Barclays Wealth as part of Christie’s London sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on [Read More]

New York. NY – Christie’s New York annual Ocean Liner sale is scheduled to take place on June 25 at the Rockefeller Galleries and is led by a life preserver from R.M.S. Titanic. Never before seen in public, and one of only six known to be in existence, the life preserver has [Read More]

(Aberdeen, Miss.) – A stunning and heavily carved Norman dining room suite, crafted in 1911 by the Oriel Cabinet Company and previously owned by a direct descendant of Guilford Dudley, former President Richard Nixon’s Ambassador to Denmark, sold for $83,600 at a multi-estate sale held May 30-31 by Stevens Auction Company. The [Read More]

Three of Fisher German LLP’s offices have once again held very successful auctions over the last month, showing no slowdown in the search for prime rural land and agricultural properties. The Market Harborough office recently acquired the exceptional Grange Farm in South Lincolnshire following a competitive telephone auction involving at least five [Read More]

Fairfield, Maine – The colors and beauty of spring cannot compare to those of Maine in June, unless you’re talking about Julia’s upcoming glass and lamp auction. Rivaling nature’s splendor is the superb array of goods gathered from America’s countryside by department head Dudley Browne. This offering of rare glass and lamps [Read More]

Despite the continuing difficult market conditions Cheffins latest Land & Property Auction achieved almost 70% sales success with 11 of the 16 lots offered being sold with a sales total of nearly £2.5 million. It was standing room only at the auction at Cheffins Salerooms with a mix of residential, commercial and [Read More]

A charity auction of travel products and charity sale of souvenirs will be held on June 14 and 15 at The Hong Kong Travel Agents’ Street at the Travel Expo of ITE & ITE MICE. On auction will be tour packages, and ticket & hotel packages etc. A donation box will also [Read More]