Nearly 1,000 lots crossed the block in a successful auction that grossed more than $1.2 million. (HYANNIS, Mass.) – A spectacular and rare sicklebill curlew decoy made in Duxbury, Mass., by a craftsman whose identity is a matter of debate among veteran collectors, soared to $111,550 at an auction held July 24-25 [Read More]
Bonhams announce a very impressive assembly of exceptional touring cars from Europe and America at its auction in Carmel, California on August 18th-19th. In addition to the previously reported and widely covered 1925 Rolls-Royce New Phantom “Tiger Hunter” commissioned by the Maharaja of Kotah and the 1927 Bentley 6½ Liter Sports Tourer [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2011 will be held at Hall 3, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1 to 6 October 2011. The six-day sales series will offer the finest collections across eight collecting categories, namely Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Fine Chinese Paintings, 20th Century Chinese Art, Contemporary [Read More]
Shepard Fairey, one of today’s most influential street artists, is joining Russell Simmons, Danny Simmons and more than a dozen other acclaimed artists, to raise funds for RUSH Philanthropic through the 4th Annual Art for Life Online Auction at leading online charity auction site charitybuzz.com. Fairey has donated a beautiful hand-painted multiple [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company New York, announce ‘The World of Muriel Brandolini’, an interiors auction, on OCTOBER 21, 2011, 10AM, celebrating the life and work of decorator Muriel Brandolini. A blaze of color on the fall calendar, Brandolini’s sale will include works from her wide-ranging collection of decorative arts, contemporary design [Read More]
Bonhams new Contemporary Art Department announce the sale of a highly important work by one of the most influential Italian artists of the 20th century, Alighiero E Boetti (1940-1994), in the Department’s inaugural sale on 13 October 2011. Attracting a pre-sale estimate of £1,200,000 – 1,800,000 and entitled 1984, this monumental piece [Read More]
Zurich Asia, will be holding its largest sale of Stamps and Postal History of China, Hong Kong, India and other Countries between 13 and 15 August 2011 at The Excelsior in Hong Kong. Over 3,000 lots of rare and fine Chinese and Asian stamps, with an estimated total value of over HK$25 [Read More]
Included will be an historic bedroom suite once owned by the second wife of Jefferson Davis. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The antique furnishings of three prominent old Mississippi estates will be sold Saturday, Aug, 20, at 10 a.m. (CDT), by Stevens Auction Company, in the firm’s air-conditioned gallery at 609 North Meridian Street [Read More]
Bonhams announce that it will be offering what is considered one of the most significant surviving Bentleys in the world today at its Quail Lodge auction on August 18-19 in Carmel, California. The E. Bullivant 1927 Bentley 6½ Liter Sports Tourer with its original Coachwork by Vanden Plas is widely regarded as [Read More]
SOUVENIRS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SLEEPER-TRAIN COMPANY Christie’s announce the sale of souvenirs from the international sleeper-train company, including prints, posters, works of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art, Furniture and Works of Art, Porcelain and Silver, on Tuesday 27 September 2011. An icon of the Art Deco movement, the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express train [Read More]
The auctions – slated for Sept. 15, Sept. 23-25 and Oct. 21-23 – will be held in Oceanside, N.Y. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Most auction houses can brag about having maybe one three-day sale per year, if that, but Philip Weiss Auctions has two such events planned for back-to-back months — on Sept. [Read More]
The event will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1034 Gateway Blvd. (Ste. 106) in Boynton Beach. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Hundreds of quality lots of fine porcelain, original artwork and wonderful estate jewelry will cross the block in a multi-estate sale planned for Saturday, Aug. 27, by Elite Decorative Arts, [Read More]
One of the finest and rarest items of furniture to date has recently been discovered in a Staffordshire property. It belongs to a genre of furniture known as collectors’ cabinets, essentially a small cabinet with a fitted interior for housing objects d’art for wealthy connoisseurs. This example is thought to be Indo-Portuguese [Read More]
Phoenix auction firm, Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc., will host a police marathon auction featuring electronics, jewelry, tools, school district equipment and supplies, city surplus, appliances, computers, sporting goods, household items, furniture, commercial restaurant equipment and much more on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Items of interest for this Phoenix marathon auction [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields have announced its September 25, 2011 Sunset Estate Auction will feature select property from the Estate of award-winning stage, television and film actor John Forsythe. A harlequin set of eight Late George III ladder back chairs early 19th century. With rush seats, comprising two armchairs and six side chairs. [Read More]
Greg Martin Auctions/Heritage Auctions are joining with the National Rifle Association (NRA) to offer the second “NRA Firearms For Freedom Auction,” beginning Aug. 21, 2011, in Dallas, TX. The special event, featuring donations from NRA members, benefits the NRA, its mission in defense of America’s Second Amendment freedoms, our nation’s shooting and [Read More]
Christie’s new York announced the single-owner sale of A Connoisseur’s Vision: Property from the Xu Hanqing Collection, which will be offered on September 15, 2011 during Christie’s Asian Art Week. This elite group of 150 objects includes rare and important examples of ancient Chinese paintings, rare calligraphy, lustrous jades, an assortment of [Read More]
Estate auctions fill Rago’s galleries with 18th, 19th and early 20th century furnishings, decorative arts and fine arts including lamps and metalwork, rugs, American folk art, Native American, bronzes, prints, Asian art and antiques, glass and porcelain. Select highlight: Edouard Jean Baptiste Detaille (French, 1848-1912), Oil on canvas, French Infantry soldier, $15,000-20,000. [Read More]