Specialized dealer in 20th Century furniture Lampedo will be organizing a first time online auction with Italian vintage design by important architects and designers such as Gio Ponti, Gino Sarfatti, Ettore Sottsass, Angelo Lelli and Ico Parisi. For sale will be furniture, lighting and objets d’art in glass and ceramic. Platform for [Read More]
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place on Tuesday 21 June 2011 and will offer 92 lots with a pre-sale estimate of £115 million to £164 million*. Representing artistic movements from throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, and including works by many of the most celebrated artists of [Read More]
1910 Joe Jackson Card Sells For Record $200,000; Lou Gehrig Jersey $329,000; T206 Wagner hammered down at $188,000; Countless Baseball Card Auction Records Shattered At REA!!! Watchung, New Jersey. The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market amazed collectors at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 7, 2011 auction. An astounding 179 [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers announce a special antiques valuation day in aid of Far Fillimore Rest Home, Hanbury near Burton On Trent. The valuation day is being held on Saturday 25th June from 2pm to 4pm in conjunction with the annual fete in the grounds. All are welcome to dig out their treasures [Read More]
A Karl Müller-designed and signed Union Porcelain Works Centennial Vase, manufactured in Greenpoint, NY, circa 1876-1885, sold for $47,800 on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Decorative Arts & Design and Gentleman Collector Auctions at the company’s Design District Annex in Dallas. All prices include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. The [Read More]
The “Fighting Pair” dinosaurs, an allosaurus and stegosaurus so named because they were found literally on top of one another in Wyoming’s Dana Quarry – with the jaw of the allosaurus clamped around the leg of the stegosaurus, leading to the speculation that they were engaged in mortal combat at the moment [Read More]
RM Auctions is to offer a 1935 Bugatti Type 57 Roadster at its annual Monterey, California sale on August 19 – 20. Taking place the same weekend as the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance during the famed automotive week festivities, the Monterey auction is considered one of the highlights of the RM Auctions [Read More]
Taft Mackenzie Ventures is hosting a silent auction where 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit The Children’s Miracle Network, which treats 17 million children for every disease and injury imaginable. The festive and philanthropic evening, held alongside the downtown Ohio hotel’s weekly lobby lounge event – will offer guests a chance [Read More]
Three works by Joan Miró one of the greatest Surrealist painters are to be auctioned at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale on Tuesday 21st June, New Bond Street, London. The three works all display the signature striking style of the artist, and have attracted pre-sale estimates to tempt a range of [Read More]
The private collection of one of the finest furniture maker’s of his time, Emmanuel Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Fine European Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art sale on 6 July 2011. Emmanuel Alfred took over his family business in 1875. [Read More]
Sotheby’s suction of The Hascoe Family Collection of Important Czech Art on June 13 brought a Grand Total of 11,103,903 GBP (18,032,738 USD) (303,326,131 CZK), beating the pre?sale estimates. Commenting on the sale results, Tessa Kostrzewa, Deputy Director of European Paintings at Sotheby’s London, and Filip Marco, Head of Sotheby’s Prague Office, [Read More]
On the 29th June, Bonhams will include a hidden self portrait by L.S Lowry in the 20th Century British Art sale in New Bond Street Group of People with the Artist is estimated to sell for £100,000 -150,000 and was executed in the same year as Lowry staged his seventh one-man show [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company, announces highlights from the upcoming June Contemporary Art Evening and Day auctions. Highlights of the Contemporary Evening sale are on show now at Phillips de Pury & Compay’s new space, 45-47 Brook Street at Claridge’s London. The sales will feature important modern and contemporary works across multiple [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields‘ Entertainment Memorabilia auction on June 26, 2011 in Los Angeles will feature a wide variety of items related to Hollywood, Rock ‘n Roll and Animation Art. Highlights will include pieces connected to Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Nightmare Before Christmas and the grand dames of old Hollywood: Barbara [Read More]
On Saturday June 18, Trinity International Auctions and Appraisals will be conducting the sale of a unique selection of European and American paintings, prints, and sculpture as well as works by Russian and Asian artists at Trinity International’s headquarters on 2 Arts Center Lane. Highlights of the auction are to include a [Read More]
It was an Exceptional Cataloged Antique Auction, held at Fontaine’s gallery in Pittsfield, Mass. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A monumental circa-1890 R.J. Horner figural carved mahogany 12-piece dining room set – consisting of a dining table, sideboard, china cabinet, server and set of eight dining room chairs – soared to $100,300 at an [Read More]
Portrait Has Descended through the Same Family for Over 200 Years and Has Been Known as the “Confesseur de Rubens” Sotheby’s has announced that it will sell a newly discovered portrait by the great 17th Century Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck in its 6th July 2011 sale of Old Master and [Read More]
A wine glass that is thought to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte is to be part of the auction of Fine British and European Glass and Paperweights on 15th June 2011 at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London. The glass is offered in a red-leather coated wooden case with gilded toolwork, and attached [Read More]