Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Le Bouquet, 1910, brought $657,250 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ American & European Signature® Art Auction, Nov. 8, at Heritage’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Bouquet, 1910. Oil on canvas, 17 x 12-1/2 in. Le Bouquet came to Heritage from the family of renowned [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announces that the Old Master and British Paintings Evening and Day Sales on 7th and 8th December 2011 will offer a selection of important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades, including the masterpiece by Jan Steen Card Players in an [Read More]
Government Auction announces its Annual Black Friday Auction. This is the largest auction in the company’s history to date. The auction will feature over 1,600 items to be auctioned off in this one day event, featuring items such as Rare Gold Coins, Jewelry, Art, Antiques, Sports Memorabilia, Hollywood Memorabilia, Collectibles from the [Read More]
The original cover artwork for Let it Bleed, the Rolling Stones album which has been described as one of the greatest covers of all times, is a highlight of Bonhams next Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Thursday 15th December 2011 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London. It is estimated to sell for £30,000-40,000. Rolling Stones [Read More]
To coincide with the auction house’s 25-year anniversary, Villa Grisebach was entrusted with the largest number of works of art to date. 1,463 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and photographs will be auctioned in Berlin in six sales during four days for the first time (from November 23 to 26). Major works by [Read More]
The bear is the expected top lot in an auction that will see nearly 400 quality lots change hands. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – A rare, magnificent Chinese solid nephrite jade bear, the largest known jade sculpture of its time and dating back to China’s Warring States in the Eastern Han Dynasty (475-B.C.-220 [Read More]
A rare 15th century gold iconographic ring found by a metal detector in Stanford, Kent is estimated to sell for £4,000 – 6,000 in the Fine Jewellery Sale taking place at Bonhams on the 8th December 2011. The ring was a dream find, having remained hidden for 600 years below layers of [Read More]
A selection of outstanding diamonds, natural pearls and important signed pieces are the highlights of the Fine Jewellery Sale, taking place on December 8th at Bonhams, New Bond Street. The top lot of the sale is a stunning diamond, of the very top quality: an internally flawless, marquise-cut diamond ring, D colour [Read More]
They are some of the most famous words in the history of the NASA Space Program: “Houston, we have a problem.” Now, the Lunar Module Systems Activation Checklist upon which Commander James Lovell made his handwritten calculations to guide his wounded spacecraft and crew home – scant two hours after uttering those [Read More]
Bonhams is to auction The Gerard Hawthorn Collection of Yixing Stoneware on November 28, 2011 at the Island Shangri-la Hotel, Hong Kong. Part of the Bonhams Autumn Auctions Series in Hong Kong, The Gerard Hawthorn Collection of Yixing Stoneware is an impressive, personal collection of a connoisseur dealer, who has passionately collected [Read More]
Christie’s announces that the sale of a Sheffield-plated silver wine cooler, given by George Washington to Alexander Hamilton in 1797, will highlight the week of Americana sales on January 19, 2012 (estimate: $400,000-600,000). This four-bottle wine cooler is an exceptionally well documented historical object, symbolizing the famous partnership between Washington and Hamilton [Read More]
An impressive roster of Ferraris, spanning from a one-of-a-kind 1957 Ferrari 410 Superamerica to a virtually-new 1991 Ferrari F40 have been announced among the feature attractions for RM Auctions’ upcoming Arizona sale in January. Returning to the prestigious Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa on January 19 – 20, 2012, the well-established RM [Read More]
Seoul Auction, Korea’s leading art auction house, will hold its Modern & Contemporary Art sale on 28 November, 2011 at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, presenting approximately 50 outstanding works by leading Western, Korean, Japanese and Chinese artists with a total estimate of HK$195,280,000/ US$25,035,900. Ms Soyoung Lee, Managing Director of Seoul [Read More]
Hermann Historica arms and armour, arts and crafts objects, hunting collectibles, orders, military objects and antiquities achieved excellent results in the autumn sale. A total of approximately 3,500 selected collectors´ items were offered for bidding from 24 to 29 October. Orient A sensational 110,000 euros was realised for an Ottoman dagger with [Read More]
The November 21, 2011 auction of California and American Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams will offer a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and land and cityscapes. Noted artists represented in the fall sale include Jessie Arms Botke, Maynard Dixon, E. Charlton Fortune, John Marshall Gamble, Frank [Read More]
Marbles are essentially miniature works of art in glass, and the number of collectors who are drawn to them just keeps on growing, said Dan Morphy, whose Pennsylvania auction house has become a virtual collectors’ clubhouse for the specialty hobby. On Dec. 3, Morphy’s auction company will conduct its largest-ever sale of [Read More]
Sotheby’s London presents “Making Time”, a selling exhibition of stunning clocks by designer Daniel Weil of Pentagram, from January 9th-13th 2012. The exhibition comprises two sharply contrasting collections Weil created 17 years apart – his Time for All series from 1994, and his revolutionary new A Matter of Time series, which will [Read More]
Two rare works by the celebrated Russian artist Nikolai Roerich are amongst the highlights of the Russian sale, taking place on the 30th November at Bonhams, New Bond Street in London. “The Grand Canyon” (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) and “Rocky Landscape” (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) depicting breathtaking landscape of the South-West are among a [Read More]