A superlative Fancy Light Brownish-Pink Diamond, Diamond, Platinum Ring was the subject of intense bidding and great admiration on its way to a final price of $358,500 on Monday, May 2, to top the offerings in Heritage Auctions’ $4.957+ million New York Signature® Fine Jewelry Auction at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion. All prices [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer at auction on Tuesday 17 May 2011 Marie-Antoinette (1986) by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (1945). Kiefer’s Marie-Antoinette was a gift to designer and interior decorator Benno Premsela from the famous Dutch furniture designer Martin Visser . Premsela received the present work for his help with the negotiations [Read More]
On the 19th May, Bonhams will hold its third London sale of 2011 at New Bond Street, which will feature an eclectic selection of fine and rare wines, both ancient and modern. The top lot of the sale is eleven bottles of La Tache 1978, Domaine de la Romanee Conti (estimate £18,000-22,000), [Read More]
The auction was held April 23rd at the Sheraton Great Valley hotel facility in Malvern, Pa. (MALVERN, Pa.) – A gorgeous early 19th century Simon Willard tall case clock, regal at 93 ½ inches tall and signed “Warranted by S. Willard” on the dial, sold for $32,900 at a multi-estate auction held [Read More]
Pétrus, Mouton, Lafite and DRC Achieve Top Prices (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart held another highly successful wine auction this weekend in Chicago, realizing $6,382,853 in total sales against a pre-auction estimate of $4,402,640-$6,593,490. Wines from Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Pétrus, and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti generated spirited [Read More]
The Ronnie and Sandy Rosen collection of comic character toys is among the featured attractions in Bertoia’s big 1,480-lot auction to be held June 10-11, 2011. It took weeks to catalog the enormous array of beautiful toys, banks and doorstops chosen for Bertoia Auctions’ June 10-11 Toys with Character sale, and gallery [Read More]
A portrait of François Roques, the first outside artistic advisor to the renowned Fashion House Hermès, will be offered in the Russian Sale on 8th June at Bonhams, New Bond Street. Painted by Marie Vassilieff in 1930, the portrait is estimated to sell for £50,000 – 80,000. During the 1920s François Roques [Read More]
Julien’s Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills is to auction personal antiques, fine and decorative art, furniture, and memorabilia from the classic 1980’s primetime soap opera Dallas in California on Saturday, June 4, 2011. Larry Hagman, stage, film and television actor, producer, director, and charitable spokesman, is best known for his roles as [Read More]
Sotheby’s offers for sale Part II of the Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Arts of India, on May 31, 2011, This follows the outstanding total of £20.9 million achieved last month for Part I of the Stuart Cary Welch Collection Arts of the Islamic World which established an auction record for any Islamic [Read More]
Dedham, MA – Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers are pleased to announce the sale of the Jacob B. Noble Collection of Fine 20th century Art Glass and Modern Paintings, to be held on Saturday, May 21st at 2 p.m. The collection is comprised of over 150 pieces of mid [Read More]
An actual 7” by 4” section from the hull of the doomed ship R.M.S. Titanic, modern history’s most famous shipwreck – consigned by famous author, Hollywood consultant and deep sea archeologist Charles Pellegrino – is expected to bring $4,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ May 21 Americana & Political Memorabilia event. A [Read More]
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Olga Malyshevaas the company’s representative in Russia, based in Moscow. Olga, 25, is originally from Moscow, where she has worked for the past three years as the Advertising Sales Manager for Tatler Russia. Describing her new job, Olga says: “The Russian people understand [Read More]
On Saturday, June 4, when RSL Auction Co. presents a 499-lot selection of fine banks, together with a smaller grouping of antique toys, at Richard Opfer’s gallery in suburban Baltimore. The auction’s centerpiece is the John Jirkofsky collection. A longtime Midwestern collector, Jirkofsky is a member of both the MBCA and SBCCA, [Read More]
Christie’s fine art auctioneers has announced the sale of the Estate of Ernst Beyeler, the late Swiss art connoisseur who was one of the greatest art dealers, collectors and curators of our time. The sale, which will include art works Ernst and his wife Hildy lived with at their private home as [Read More]
Bonhams auctioneers, has appointed Jane Beattie as the company’s representative in Ireland, based in Dublin. She started her new role on April 26th. Matthew Girling, Bonhams CEO for Europe and the Middle East, comments: “We are delighted to have secured the services of Jane Beattie. She will doubtless build on our presence [Read More]
Christie’s Rock and Pop sale in June features clothing, awards, original concert posters, signed photographs and other music memorabilia, from all the biggest names in rock and roll, punk, and pop including The Beatles, David Bowie, The Who, Status Quo and The Spice Girls, among others. Over 200 items will be on [Read More]
The original art from Page 10, issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (DC, 1986) became the single most valuable piece of American comic art to ever sell when it brought $448,125 as part of Heritage Auctions’ May 5 Vintage Comics and Comic Art Auction. Final [Read More]
Sotheby’s have announced that its forthcoming summer Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London will be led by Crouching Nude, an important masterwork by the renowned British artist Francis Bacon (est. £7-9 million / $10-15 million)* which has never before been offered at auction. The 1961 oil on canvas, which is one of [Read More]