Noel Barrett Nov. 18-19 auction realized $1,187,000 (all prices quoted inclusive of 15% buyer’s premium), with Saturday’s sales exceeding the session’s total high estimate by a whopping 40%. Watchmaker’s trade sign of cast and sheet metal, 32 inches tall by 26 inches wide, $11,500. Noel Barrett Auctions image Friday’s 386-lot toy session [Read More]
Orson Welles’ Academy Award for Citizen Kane was sold by Nate D. Sanders for $861,542, which includes the buyer’s premium. Welles received this Award for Best Original Screenplay, which was, incredibly, the only Oscar that either Citizen Kane or Orson Welles received. In an exciting auction that included David Copperfield and bidders [Read More]
A group of fine Chinese furniture, formerly in the Collection of Eleanor Majors Carlisle – a pillar of San Francisco society at the turn of the 19th century, took the spotlight at Bonhams more than $12.8-million auction of Fine Asian Works of Art held December 20-21. The two-day sale offered up 900 [Read More]
The finest collection of vintage baseball-themed board and arcade games ever assembled, The Dr. Mark W. Cooper Collection, is currently being offered in its entirety via Private Treaty sale from Heritage Auctions. “The best-known documentation of baseball’s rich history comes in the form of the rare early cardboard that bears the faces [Read More]
Quentin Blake, Angela de la Cruz, Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, Rankin, Gerald Scarfe, Bob & Roberta Smith and Gavin Turk are amongst the high-profile artists contributing self portraits to the Face Britain project. As well as these artists, a wide range of well known faces from the worlds of film, TV, theatre, [Read More]
The event will be held in the firm’s showroom, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, New York (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A huge two-day, three-session multi-estate sale featuring hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market lots of original artwork, fine porcelain, Hollywood memorabilia, movie posters, pop culture and rock ‘n’ roll items and more will [Read More]
Achieves Highest Sell-Through Rate in the Industry (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart capped off another highly successful year with a remarkably strong auction in Chicago on December 10th, realizing $4,263,270 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $3,033,500- $4,534,540. One of the featured consignments, A Selection of Remarkable Burgundy from an East [Read More]
2011 saw a series of art world records broken at Bonhams salerooms round the world. These include: Chinese Art Bonhams Hong Kong set a new outright world record for a Chinese snuff bottle on 28 November 2011, at the auction of the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part IV at the [Read More]
Bonhams Wine Department finished 2011 with its highest ever London sale total of £966,000 on 1st December and a year on year increase in sales of over 40% for the second year running. Allied to a similar increase in sales in the US, Bonhams Wine Department internationally achieved a sales total of [Read More]
Sotheby’s annual auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York will take place on 26 January 2012. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings will offer strong examples across a wide range of styles and genres, from early Italian pictures to Italian Baroque, French Rococo, Dutch 17th century [Read More]
Christie’s New York announces Americana Week 2012, two weeks of sales, viewings and a symposium devoted to three centuries of American craftsmanship in all its forms, including important furniture, folk art, silver, and decorative arts. The sales begin on January 19 with Important American Silver, followed by John James Audubon’s The Birds [Read More]
Sotheby’s final sale of 2011 in Paris, devoted to Asian Art, totalled €12.45 million against an overall pre-sale estimate of €6.5-9m. The highest price rewarded an 18th century cabinet formed by four carved zitan panels of dragons, from the reign of Emperor Qianlong. This remarkable item of furniture, of exceptional size, has [Read More]
TThe landmark auctions of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor at Christie?s New York from December 3-17 realized a combined total of $156,756,576 (£100,324,209/ €120,702,563) with every single item sold. The sale drew unprecedented interest from bidders throughout the world, who gathered in Christie?s flagship Rockefeller Center saleroom to compete in person, on [Read More]
A superb European sculpture unveiled at the Los Angeles Scottish Rite Cathedral on Christmas Day of 1913 is the highlight of Don Presley’s Dec. 31-Jan. 1 New Year’s Auction. The sale features 1,000 lots of antiques, Asian and other fine art, plus a bumper selection described by Presley as “a gallery of [Read More]
Sotheby’s announce that its New York auction of Important Americana on 20 & 21 January 2012 will feature a previously undocumented high chest of drawers by renowned cabinetmaker John Townsend, which represents one of the most important discoveries of American furniture to come to light in decades. Signed and dated in 1756 [Read More]
On January 17, 2012 Keno Auctions will showcase a remarkable selection of furnishings comprised of Americana, furniture and decorative arts from the 17 century through to the 20th century. Property from the Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts Sale will be sold at 10:00 a.m. that is composed of some dazzling [Read More]
Christie’s new York auctions the Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr. Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, the sale will conclude the series of sales comprising Americana Week. The late Peter Frelinghuysen, longtime U.S. Congressman from New Jersey and last grandchild of the famed collectors H. O. and Louisine [Read More]
The first of the farewell letters written in the Antarctic by Captain Robert Scott as he realised that he and his team would not survive is for sale at Bonhams Polar Sale in London on 30 March 2012. It is estimated to make £100,000-150,000. The letter, which was found on Scott’s body [Read More]