The sale of a £13,000 bottle of Gordon & MacPhail Generations Glenlivet 70 Years Old, launched earlier this month, is to be auctioned at a special evening at Bonhams, Edinburgh on 29 March in aid of the victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Family owned whisky specialists Gordon & [Read More]
Highlights include James D. Julia’s Winter Antiques & Fine Art Auction with over 600 online bidders from 17 countries; Doyle New York’s sale of the Estate of Lena Horne with more than a thousand online bids and National Book Auctions’ February 27th auction with over 73% of the lots sold online. Gorringes, [Read More]
The Largest Selection of Lafite Ever Offered at Auction Portion of Proceeds Donated to Japanese Relief Efforts Hart Davis Hart, America’s largest wine auction house, conducted a highly successful auction over the weekend devoted exclusively to the wines of Château Lafite-Rothschild. The sale comprised the largest selection of Lafite ever offered at [Read More]
The most important collection of papers & Portraits to come to the market in 30 years – which includes two American discoveries- will be sold at Bonhams in London on March 29th as the Roy Davids Collection. Roy Davids was for many years the Head of Books at Sotheby’s. He is a [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Sale of Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints, on Wednesday, 30 March, 2011, will present for sale the earliest printed star charts, in the form of a pair of extremely rare woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer depicting A Map of the Northern Sky and A Map of the Southern Sky. These [Read More]
Hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market lots will cross the block, in a wide array of categories. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – No sooner had Philip Weiss Auctions closed the books on a huge weekend multi-estate sale March 4-6 than one just as big was being planned for a month later. The firm will host a [Read More]
Christie’s spring sale of Swiss art at the Kunsthaus Zurich on 21 March 2011 will bring together outstanding works from famous artist fathers and their equally famous sons. The top lot of the sale, which comes from a Swiss private collection, is Giovanni Giacometti’s family portrait Unter dem Holunder / Under the [Read More]
Christie’s will hold their second series of „Elegance? auctions – presenting a range of luxury items from stunning jewels and classic watches through to exotic Hermès handbags and even dog accessories, as well as highly sought after Lalique glass mascots and vessels. The sales will take place on 25 and 26 May [Read More]
In light of recent events, Hart Davis Hart will be donating 3% of all buyers premium collected in The Lafite Auction to humanitarian organizations providing medical support and relief efforts directly to the people of Japan. Many of the consignors in this auction will be matching our donation. Our thoughts and prayers [Read More]
Collectors can look forward to Antiquorum’s upcoming auction “Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces” to be held on Sunday 27 March at the Mandarin Oriental Geneva. Among the 564 exclusive modern and vintage timepieces, Antiquorum experts are pleased to offer an extremely rare minute-repeating and tourbillon Patek Philippe Ref. 3939 as well as [Read More]
Auctions Neapolitan in Naples, Fla., will present a 350-lot auction of fine-quality European and American art glass led by a large, double-stamped Tiffany Studios lamp in the Roman pattern. The 30-inch-tall lamp is expected to make $30,000-$35,000. The main consignor among several represented in the sale is a private collector from the [Read More]
Accelerated Marketing Partners announced it will conduct an auction for 17 new development, waterfront condominium homes at Pacifica Tower, situated along the Willamette River and adjacent to Portland’s Pearl District, which is well-known for its cultural, architectural and artistic attractions. To date, more than 80 percent of the building has successfully sold [Read More]
As the devastating events continue to unfold in Japan, the need for assistance is great. In light of this need, Colin Sheaf, Chairman of Bonhams Asia, says: “At this time of unprecedented personal tragedy in one of the world’s greatest cultures, we think it is appropriate to draw funds from culture of [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced that, in partnership with the auction house PIASA, it will sell the Fabius Frères Gallery collection on the 18th and 19th October 2011 in Paris. The 400 sculptures, pieces of furniture, works of art, drawings and 19th century paintings, estimated to sell for € 9 – 14 million, will be [Read More]
A Scottish sundial boss discovered half-buried in the ground in Herfordshire, England, and then used by the owner to grow strawberries, is expected to realise between £7,000 and £10,000 when it is auctioned as part of Christie’s Travel, Science and Natural History sale in London on 6 April 2011. The sundial, scientifically [Read More]
A RIFLE belonging to Edward, Prince of Wales, before he became King Edward VII will be offered by Gavin Gardiner (in association with Sotheby’s) in a sale of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns and Rifles on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London. Made by famous London [Read More]
he live auction will take place on Friday, March 25 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, with online bidding commencing at that time via Proxibid. Auction registration and pre-bidding are already available by visiting www.proxibid.com/cowans. Nearly 600 lots of pottery, weavings, paintings, sculpture, beadwork, baskets, Eskimo carvings, and more will cross the block during [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company fine art auctioneers, announces the highlights from its BRIC 2011 Evening and Day auctions featuring 203 lots with a low estimate of £7,280,500/$11,657,566 and a high estimate of £10,865,500/ $17,397,883.The Evening sale will feature 39 important works with a low estimate of £5,917,000 /$ 9,474,325 and a [Read More]