Swann Galleries will offer a two-part sale of Property from the Estate of Filmmaker Gary Winick and 19th & 20th Century Photographs & Photobooks, April 4. When accomplished film producer and director Gary Winick died last year at the age of 49, he left behind collections of photographs, fine art prints and [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will auction Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art as part of the Asia Week series of Auctions, on On 20 March 2012. The sale includes property from over seventy private collections some of which has not been seen in public for over fifty years. The auction features a [Read More]
Saffronart the India’s largest online fine-art auction house, concluded its thematic 24-Hour Online Auction – ‘Carpets & Rugs’ with sales totaling Rs. 54.6 Lakhs (USD 111,384). Successfully expanding Saffronart’s online auction platform to carpets of Indian, Persian and Turkish carpets, this sale saw active bidding and participation, with many of the lots [Read More]
Christie’s New York will auction the private library of Kenneth Nebenzahl, renowned dealer, cartographic scholar and author from Chicago. Formed over the past fifty years, the collection includes some of the greatest rarities in the fields of cartography, exploration and Americana. Agnese atlas. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2012 Highlights of [Read More]
The Lotus collection of Olav Glasius, a world renowned collector and lifetime Lotus fan will be sold on Friday the 29th June 2012 at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale and is expected to realise in excess of £1.5million. As a young motor racing enthusiast watching the legendary Jim Clark dominate [Read More]
Dedham , MA Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers are pleased to announce their upcoming March Two Day Auction will be held on Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th. The auction will include over 1000 lots of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from many [Read More]
A major work by one of the most important British print makers of the 20th Century is to be auctioned at Bonhams Print Sale at New Bond Street London on 17 April. Speedway (1934) by Sybil Andrews, estimated at £50,000-70,000, is one of the iconic images of the Grosvenor School of printmaking [Read More]
Henry John Yeend King (British 1855-1924) was an important and influential artist. He was a Victorian genre and landscape artist who specialised in idyllic country scenes, often with pretty farm girls at work or resting. Henry John Yeend King Yeend King was born in London and started out as a choirboy at [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. The 1,260-lot sale incorporates a fantastic array of signage, with the centerpiece being the revered Coca-Cola [Read More]
Charles Miller Ltd’s auction and sale is open to all and is a unique opportunity to see and buy some of the rare, curious and historic items that will be coming under the hammer next month in London. The forthcoming sale includes fascinating items relating to Titanic, Nelson, and Shackleton. • Emotive [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of an exceptional collection of jewelry from the Estate of Huguette M. Clark, one of the last great heiresses of America’s Gilded Age. Ms. Clark’s jewelry collection, which is believed to have been stored in a bank vault since the 1940s, includes signed Art Deco jewels by Cartier, [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 May 2012, will include Double Elvis [Ferus Type] by Andy Warhol, a painting that epitomizes the artist’s obsessions with fame, stardom, and the public image. The 1963 work is a seminal piece from the iconic series devoted to the singer and actor that [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of Property from the Estate of Brooke Astor – beloved philanthropist and legendary figure in New York society – will be held on 24 & 25 September 2012. The sale will comprise fine and decorative art from Mrs. Astor’s Park Avenue apartment in New York City and her [Read More]
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Margaret K. Tierney as the company’s representative for Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey. Ms. Tierney offers seventeen years of experience in the international fine art auction industry and an in-depth knowledge of the regional, national and international art market. Malcolm Barber, Bonhams [Read More]
Boston, MA – March 15, 2012 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts on Saturday, March 31st in its Boston gallery. The sale begins with nearly 450 lots of fine silver from England, the Continent, Asia, and the Americas. It continues with 400 more lots covering [Read More]
The gold cape that Elizabeth Taylor wore as Cleopatra in two pivotal scenes in the 1963 film of the same name is expected to bring $20,000 as the top entertainment lot in Heritage Auctions’ March 30 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature® auction. The top lot on the music side is expected to [Read More]
Sotheby’s Single Owner sale of property from The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla: Important Porcelain, Venetian Fine and Decorative Arts from their Residence in Geneva realised £4,575,733 / $7,173,834 / €5,503,686 well above the pre-sale estimate of £2.5 – 3.8 million. The auction was 89 % sold by lot and 96 [Read More]
Bonhams next sale of Antiquities on April 25th in New Bond Street features an important piece of Classical bronze sculpture, believed to depict a Hellenistic warrior of the 1st Century B.C., discovered in a London home. After conservation it will be sold for £50,000 to £80,000. Madeleine Perridge, Head of Antiquities at [Read More]