Bonhams announce a charity auction to benefit Los Angeles Fund for Public Education supporting art and music education in L.a. public schools on February 22 at Bonhams Los Angeles. The 10-foot tall Gibson guitar art sculptures that have lined THE SUNSET STRIP will end their year-long tour on Friday, February 22 when [Read More]
Christie’s announced an online auction series to benefit the Andy Warhol Foundation. For one week, from Tuesday, February 26 through Tuesday, March 5, collectors around the world will have the opportunity to log in and bid online for 125 paintings, drawings, photographs and prints by Pop Art’s reigning superstar, Andy Warhol. The [Read More]
An original-condition, ‘barn-find’ Aston Martin DB5 Sports Saloon is an early consignment for the 14th annual Bonhams sale of Aston Martin and Lagonda motor cars at the factory’s Works department in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, UK, on Saturday 18th May. The 1964 model, with less than 48,000 miles on the clock, is offered [Read More]
A letter penned by the maternal aunt of one of music’s most enduring legends is set to sell at auction on the 15th February 2013. Mary Elizabeth ‘Mimi’ Smith played a huge part in John Lennon’s early life; taking custody of the young John when his mother – her younger sister Julia [Read More]
A James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894) painting entitled Flying Cloud on her record breaking voyage to San Francisco around Cape Horn in 89-days, April 20th 1854 nearly doubled its pre-sale low estimate to sell for $398,500 at Bonhams Important Maritime Paintings & Decorative Arts on January 25. A bidding war brewed in the [Read More]
An unusual dining table designed by one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary architects has recently come to light. ‘Nomos’ table made by Techno The futuristic looking table consists of a weighty plate glass top supported on a chromed metal base. If the design looks vaguely familiar then it is – think [Read More]
‘Chinese Girl’, the most iconic work of Vladimir Tretchikoff – the Russian émigré who settled in South Africa – will be sold at Bonhams South African art sale on 20th March 2013 for an estimated £300,000 to £500,000. Said to be the most widely reproduced and recognizable picture in the world, from [Read More]
A significant collection comprising the signatures of many prominent cricket, rugby, golf and tennis stars of the 1930s is part of the impressive sporting memorabilia section of next month’s Specialist Collectors Sale at Cuttlestones’ Wolverhampton Auction Rooms. Contained within a single album, sporting luminaries such as 1935 Wimbledon Champion Fred Perry, the [Read More]
The manuscript of W. H. Auden’s famous poem Stop all the Clocks is to be sold in Part I of the Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 10 April. It is estimated at £6,000-8,000. The work became known around the [Read More]
“The Marye Road property is well built and the Hall Lane property needs a little TLC. Both properties offer new owners a great opportunity to own or invest in property in this historical area,” according to John Nicholls, president of the company. “Make plans now to purchase these great residential/investment properties.” “The [Read More]
Bonhams first auction of the year in San Francisco, the 639-lot Period Art & Design sale, January 20, achieved a successful $516,688. The leading lot of the multi-category auction, from the strong-selling European paintings portion of the sale, was an After Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) oil on canvas, “Saint Dominic in prayer,” [Read More]
Heritage Auctions has announced the expansion of its New York staff with the hiring of Aviva Lehmann as Director of American Art, New York, Kate Waterman, Director of Jewelry, New York and Alex Miller, Comics Consignment Director. “Heritage saw an opportunity to bring on top level talent in crucial categories while expanding [Read More]
Bonhams hosted a record crowd for its second annual Scottsdale Auction with buyers participating from around the world. Bidders and registrants from no less than 28 countries participated, thus demonstrating the global reach of the Bonhams International Motoring Department. As is Bonhams’ trademark, a tremendous variety of vehicles were on offer, including [Read More]
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) will offer a portfolio of real estate investments during a three-day multi-property auction on behalf of Maranatha Properties Inc. a Florida real estate holding company. The list of available real estate includes, a ranch home, commercial warehouses, commercial buildings, industrial tracts, lake front home, home sites and vacant [Read More]
The Smith & Wesson .32L caliber revolver will be the centerpiece lot of a big firearms auction. (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) – A weapon retrieved from the stolen car driven by the outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after they were killed in a hail of bullets from a police ambush in 1934 [Read More]
Boston, Mass. – January 18, 2013 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of American Indian & Ethnographic Art on February 9th in its Boston gallery. Skinner is proud to offer more than 200 lots of evocative Plains Indian artifacts, including four rare pieces collected by the Burr family in 1855-1857. The [Read More]
Heritage Auctions experienced its fourth straight year of record sales in 2012: more than $860 million, the highest tally yet for the world’s third largest auction house and largest auctioneer of high-end collectibles. Markets ranging from U.S. Coins, Comics and Comic Art and Historical Americana showed strong gains as did sales of [Read More]
Following in the footsteps of The Staffordshire Hoard, Lichfield has revealed an exceptional collection of over 800 Greek and Roman coins. The collection represents a lifetime’s passion of a local gentleman and was discovered at a coin valuation day at Lichfield’s Auctioneers Richard Winterton last year. Stephen Wrenn, Coin and Medal Consultant [Read More]