Seven unique ceramic works by Dutch contemporary designers and artists, inspired by Dutch old master paintings in the Wallace Collection, are to be offered for sale in a silent auction on the occasion of the re-opening of the Dutch Galleries at the Wallace Collection in London. The famous Dutch Galleries of the [Read More]
Sotheby’s auction of Fine Classical Chinese Paintings brought a total of $35,162,938, totally eclipsing the pre-sale estimate of $9.8/13.7 million. Estimates tumbled throughout the sale and nine lots sold for over $1 million. The auction was led by Emperors of the Southern Song 12th to 13th Century, Calligraphy In Various Script Forms [Read More]
Sotheby’s Scandinavian Sale on Monday, 11 June 2012, features Vilhelm Hammershoi paintings. Four of the paintings depict Hammershøi’s home in Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, which provided the backdrop for the artist’s most iconic and celebrated works. Together, the group is estimated to bring in excess of £1.45 million. Ida Reading a Letter, [Read More]
It was the living estate of Brenda McCarthy of Tupelo, Miss. The sale was held in Aberdeen. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – A spectacular, all-original three-door mahogany bookcase, beautifully crafted around 1890 by the renowned American furniture maker R. J. Horner, sold for $22,425 at a sale of the living estate of Brenda McCarthy [Read More]
Bonhams announces ‘A Sale of Two Cities’ on April 2. This auction represents a unique offering of two very distinct California collections from Bel Air and Santa Barbara and features works from the Collection of Perry Perkins and his iconic establishment, Lifestyle Antiques. Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted marquetry inlaid commode [Read More]
ITEMS made by Boss & Co and Westley Richards – who are both celebrating their 200th anniversary’s in 2012 – will be offered by Gavin Gardiner (in association with Sotheby’s) in a sale of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns and Rifles on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond [Read More]
Christie’s sale of Russian Works of Art on Monday, April 16 in New York features one of the strongest offerings of cloisonné enamel to come to the market in years, including works by the master craftsman, Feodor Rückert, and the house of Fabergé. The auction comprises fresh to the market works from [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces that its Southeast Asian Paintings Spring Sale 2012 will take place on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Walter Spies, Banyan with Two Young Balinese, 1927. Est: HK$6.5 –11.5 million / US$840,000 – 1.49 million. Photo: Sotheby’s The sale brings together a substantial selection [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale 2011 on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, presenting a meticulously selected group of contemporary Chinese artworks of great historical importance, among them Bloodline – Big Family: Family No. 2 (Est. HK$25 –35 million / US$3.2 – [Read More]
The author, John Edward Simpson, was an assistant surgeon on the doomed ocean liner. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A rare, two-page letter, handwritten aboard the HMS Titanic by an assistant surgeon on the doomed ocean liner, sold for $40,700 after it had failed to meet the reserve in an auction held March 1-3 [Read More]
Bonhams Fine & Rare wine sale on 29th March at New Bond Street, London turns the focus on Burgundy. Producers on offer include Robert Arnoux, Sylvain Cathiard, Chandon de Briailles, Coche-Dury, Domaine Dujac, Fontaine-Gagnard, Vincent Girardin, Jean Grivot, Lucien Jacob, Domaine Leflaive, Perrot-Minot, Domaine de Montille as well as Domaine de la [Read More]
A letter written in 1915 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, will be offered by Bonhams in the Printed Books and Maps sale taking place in Oxford on the 17th April and is estimated to sell for £200 – 400. The letter from Reginald [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York to auction property from the Estate of Theodore J. Forstmann. A significant group of works will highlight Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 May 2012 and includes Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Dora Maar titled Femme assise dans un fauteuil, which exemplifies the artist’s wartime work and [Read More]
Cowan’s Auctions, Inc. inaugural Fine Jewelry and Timepieces Auction will take place on March 29, 2012. The 300-lot sale will be held at Cowan’s Auctions salesroom and will feature a collection of signed and unsigned jewelry, timepieces, handbags and other couture. In addition to the sale, two complementary preview events will be [Read More]
A wealth of rare antique signs, figures and other promotional items from the golden era of advertising is currently on display at Morphy’s central Pennsylvania gallery, all to be auctioned on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21. Leaded-glass Coca-Cola hanging globe with 200 glass panels, late teens to early 1920s, est. $12,000-$18,000. Morphy [Read More]
Artam Antik A.S, will offer Erol Akyavas’s “I’m the Truth” a monumental canvas dated 1987. (190×360 cm.) The work has a starting price of 600,000 EURO and is expected to have an auction record for a modern work of Turkish art… Olgac Artam, the CEO and the auctioneer, said “the sale is [Read More]
Known as the time of year to reinvent one’s surroundings, the Spring season encourages us to clean, to move out the unwanted and bring in the new! What better place to search out the “new” than in an auction venue where one can just as easily find a prehistoric Mississippian pottery bowl, [Read More]
WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY. The catalog for Robert Edward Auctions’ 2012 blockbuster sale will ship on April 16, 2012. While most of the auction is baseball-related, also included is the original Warren cover painting for Vampirella #17 (June 1972), the very first Vampirella cover painting by Enrich that launched his career as Vampirella’s [Read More]