Chatting soon after their Thanksgiving feast, Patrick Martin learned one of his guests had strong family ties to Texas. Pushing the wine glasses and butter dish to one side, Martin opened a small black book and unfolded n early, hand-colored map of the Republic of Texas, complete with the short-lived Santa Fe [Read More]
Bonhams announced that Ralph Taylor will head the Post War and Contemporary Department and has also been appointed a Director to the UK Board. His appointment as Head and Senior Director of this key department follows the recent opening of the company’s brand new corporate headquarters at 101 New Bond Street. Most [Read More]
Photographs of the world’s most glamorous girls and rock ’n’ roll legends, snapped by the leading photographers of this generation will be on public view in London this week at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions saleroom in Mayfair. The exhibition and subsequent auction, entitled Photo Opportunities will commence at 2pm on Friday 28th [Read More]
The 1,400-lot auction will be held by Ahlers & Ogletree, in the firm’s gallery at 715 Miami Cir. (ATLANTA, Ga.) – A two-day auction featuring an impressive single-owner collection of Mid-Century Modern, plus wonderful Asian antiques, fine art from names such as Louis Icart and Andy Warhol, many pieces of highly collectible [Read More]
In the year that marks the First World War Centenary, over 100 sheets of German WWI aerial reconnaissance photographs sold for £1,220 at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions Bibliophile sale in Surrey. Aerial photography was first developed by famous French Photographer and balloonist Nadar in the mid-19th century and made dramatic advances during [Read More]
Art specialists from Bonhams, the leading international fine art auction house, will host two valuation events in Sydney on 17-19 March and Melbourne on 20-21st March in a bid to discover artworks to be sold in Bonhams, London. Recently, a number of Australian discoveries have made record prices in London auctions (see [Read More]
A collection of Gold Sovereigns that spans 525 years, 15 Monarchs and seven mints, will be offered for sale by London based auctioneers, A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, on Thursday 8th May 2014. The comprehensive date collection of 394 Sovereigns from the earliest hammered examples to modern milled is entitled The [Read More]
NEW YORK – LiveAuctioneers, the world’s most trusted Internet live-bidding platform for fine art, antiques and collectibles, recorded its best year ever in 2013, with gross online sales of $222.5 million. Founded in November 2002, the privately owned Manhattan-based company has maintained profitability literally since its inception. “While LiveAuctioneers has enjoyed a [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will be holding a sale of the Library of a Gentleman on 27th February 2014. The sale will include a fine selection of books on natural history as well as literature, travel and Sussex topography. Of note is Eleazar Albin is A Natural History of English Insects, 1749. [Read More]
As the Sochi Winter Olympic Games focuses world attention on the future of Russia, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions offer the opportunity to explore the country’s vivid history with a 19th century French book on Russian customs in their Thursday 6th March 2014 sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts. Les Peuples de la [Read More]
One of the most important early English longcase clocks to come on to the market in the last ten years will be sold at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Fine Clocks, Barometers & Scientific Instruments on Tuesday 11th March. Bought by the existing owners great grandfather from Evesham, Worcestershire in around [Read More]
Bonhams will offer a recently rediscovered Francois Linke Louis XV/XVI style gilt bronze and marquetry bibliotheque (est. $400,000-600,000) in its Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts auction, March 17 in San Francisco. Francois Linke is the most sought after French ebenistesof the second half of the 19th century. This unique cabinet, never [Read More]
An exquisite gold necklace and bracelet, plus Germantown and chief’s blankets will be offered. (MESA, Ariz.) – Outstanding basket and beadwork collections, an exquisite 14kt gold and turquoise necklace, an exceptional fine weave Germantown blanket, a Hubbel-style Navajo chief’s blanket and a Hopi 14kt gold overlay bracelet with figures will all be [Read More]
One of the most renowned of legendary Lotus head Colin Chapman’s landmark Formula 1 car designs, the Lotus 49 as introduced in 1967 not only launched the racing world’s most successful Grand Prix power unit – the Cosworth-Ford DFV V8 – into racing history, it also became one of the longest-lived of [Read More]
The world’s largest known collection of Art Deco bookends is to be sold at Bonhams in London. The vast collection of 180 pairs will be offered over two sales, the first being the 2nd April Decorative Arts sale at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Classic Art Deco designs in bronze, glass, iron and marble are [Read More]
The Old Rectory, built in 1713, is considered one Kent’s finest small Queen Anne country houses. On 12th March, Bonhams will be offering the contents for sale as part of the Fine English Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art sale at London’s New Bond Street. The house and its contents are owned [Read More]
Christie’s announce the forthcoming sale of BUONO DI STAMPA: Prints from the Archive of Stamperia d?Arte 2RC to be held on Wednesday, 26 February in South Kensington. The 112 carefully selected works, which will be seen together for the first time, have been lovingly assembled over fifty years from the renowned studio [Read More]
On 6 March 2014 Christie’s sale of The Opulent Eye will offer furniture, sculpture and works of art from the 19th century. The sale reflects the eclectic and opulent styles of the period from the regal grandeur of Napoleon’s Empire to the Art Nouveau of Belle époque Paris. The sale is led [Read More]