Christie’s fine art auctioneers will offer a selection of works from the collection of Kay Saatchi at the Post-War and Contemporary art auctions in London on 28 June, 2011. The collection features an outstanding and rare group of early works on paper by Lucian Freud, executed in the 1940s, Ron Mueck’s Big [Read More]
Bonhams are to sell Triumph Motorcycles’ 500,000th production bike since 1990 after comedian and keen biker, Ross Noble, took it on a tour of Britain. The uniquely liveried Speed Triple is estimated to fetch £5,000-7,000 when it is auctioned on Friday 1st July at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Between 24-30th May, [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers report that the antiques valuation day at Far Fillimore Care Home was a resounding success last Saturday (25th June). The odd rain shower did not dampen the spirits and many turned out for a fun packed day at the fete. The antiques valuation session hosted by Adrian Rathbone, Associate [Read More]
Bonhams is to build a new international headquarters in London to provide the most advanced salerooms in the world. Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands plans for a new international headquarters for world-famous auction house Bonhams in London – view from Haunch of Vension Yard Designed by award-winning architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, the building is [Read More]
Cowan’s Summer Fine and Decorative Art Auction is slated to take place on July 23, 2011. The 364-lot sale, will offer fine and decorative art items from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Highlights in the sale include a 1944 Martin D-28 Herringbone Guitar, and a Cincinnati Art Carved Sideboard with Benjamin [Read More]
RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, posted over £5.1 million* (over $8.2 million USD) in total sales with a solid 77% sell-through at its debut Salon Privé sale in West London last night. Held in conjunction with the Salon Privé Luxury Super Car Show and Concours [Read More]
Sotheby’s two-day sale series of Impressionist & Modern Art concluded with a combined total of £111,590,250 / $181,028,706 / ¤125,012,186. On the evening of 22nd June 2011, in a packed saleroom Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale was led by Egon Schiele’s 1914 cityscape Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II) / Houses [Read More]
Boston, MA – Skinner, Inc. will auction 1100 lots at their European Furniture and Decorative Arts event on Saturday, July 9th, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in their Boston gallery. The sale will feature Fine Ceramics including The Phyllis Ritvo Collection of Gouda Pottery, along with a diverse range of British, Italian and [Read More]
Christie’s will auction a drawing made by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes at its Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours sale on July 5. This enchanting drawing was numbered by Goya himself as sheet 37 of an unbound series of pages, commonly called Album E or the Black Border Album [Read More]
Auction sniper firm eSnipe, Inc. website has been awarded a “green bar” browser address and icon for high-level encryption of data between the customer’s browser and the eSnipe site, sharply reducing any possibility of “phishing” attacks and ensuring customers that the site they are using is, in fact, eSnipe. The “green bar,” [Read More]
Paintings by Wu Guangzhong, one of China’s most important contemporary artists, headline the biggest and most valuable sale to date at Surrey’s premier auctioneers Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers. The three-day Summer auction is on June 29, 30 and July 1. Leading the sale are six works on paper by Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) [Read More]
More than 100 extraordinary objects formerly displayed in the Forbes Galleries in New York City drew frenzied bidding from around the globe to help Heritage Auctions reach a total of more than $1 million in its June 1 Signature® Decorative Arts & Design and Gentleman Collector Auctions at the company’s Design District [Read More]
Sotheby’s is to auction the oil study A Bearded Man with Hands Raised by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (estimated at £200,000-300,000) in its 6th July 2011 sale of Old Master and British Paintings. The work, depicting a bearded man with his torso uncovered, was painted when the great 17th Century Flemish artist [Read More]
(ATLANTA, Ga.) – It’s 90 degrees in the shade in Atlanta and that can only mean one thing: Red Baron’s annual Summer Extravaganza is right around the corner. This year’s event is slated for the weekend of July 16-17, at Red Baron’s massive gallery facility, located at 6450 Roswell Road in Atlanta. [Read More]
Featuring Magnificent European Furniture & Works of Art, Important Russian Works of Art and Silver Six years after the landmark auction of Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, Sotheby’s announce a second sale dedicated to the remarkable Lily and Edmond J. Safra Collections. The four day auction will [Read More]
On Tuesday, June 14, Morphy Auctions’ CEO Dan Morphy cut the ribbon to launch his company’s newly expanded 36,000-sq.-ft. auction gallery and offices. Invited guests included executives from virtually all of the local firms that worked together to bring the project to fruition – from the senior VP of the bank that [Read More]
Third Highest Total For A Sotheby’s Wine Sale in London since the new millennium – World Auction Record Price for Le Pin 1982 at £80,500 for six magnums Sotheby’s London two?day wine sale, featuring An Impressive Private Collection, concluded yesterday with a total of £2,342,953 ($3,819,013), exceeding the pre?sale estimate of £1.7 [Read More]
Around 1,400 lots changed hands over the course of the two days. The sale grossed $600,000. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Three original, signed Peanuts daily comic strips from the 1960s by the late renowned illustrator Charles Schulz sold for a combined $40,115 at a multi-estate sale held on non-consecutive weekend days (June 9 [Read More]