Personal items of several astronauts will be sold in the Space History Sale taking place at Bonhams, New York on May 5th. The sale will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Alan Shepard’s historic mission on Freedom 7 as the first American in Space. Items from the Forbes collection and from the estate [Read More]
A superb collection of high-grade anti-communist comic books from the 1950s, from The Collection of Todd Warren, will make for an esoteric and interesting corner of Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 24-25 Signature® Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction. All are being sold without reserves. “The youth of America was seen as fair game [Read More]
Gateway Gallery Auction’s Winter Americana Estate Auction, held on February 19, 2011, featured a wonderful collection of period furniture, textiles, prints, pottery and ceramics, dolls and Native Americana from a local Doctor’s estate. After a bustling week of pre-auction activity; the sale got underway with a strong in house crowd, a large [Read More]
Sotheby’s Seventeenth Annual Irish Sale in London, to take place on Tuesday, 29 March, 2011, brings together exceptional masterpieces by eminent Irish artists. The group of works, many never before offered on the market, boasts superb and rare pictures by John Lavery, Roderic O’Conor and Mary Swanzy. Louis le Brocquy is represented [Read More]
A stainless steel 57cm high model of Paul Mount’s iconic Spirit of Bristol sculpture is to be sold at Bonhams as part of its Vision 21 sale on 16 March 2011, and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £2,000 – £3,000. Cornwall-based artist, Paul Mount, who died in 2009 at the age [Read More]
A collection of Buck Rogers toys amassed over 40 years by a Chicago man, the late Wayne Jagielski, brought in more than $103,500 (all prices quoted include 15% buyer’s premium) at Morphy’s Jan. 29 auction in Denver, Pa. The overall total for the sale of antique and vintage toys was $420,000. “About [Read More]
Christie’s fine art auctioneers has announced the sale of the Michel Wittock Collection, Part IV, which will be held in Paris on May 11. As well as an exceptional copy of the famous Description de l’Egypte, bound by Jean-Joseph Tessier in polished and richly decorated calfskin, the collection includes a fine selection [Read More]
An impressive early 20th century Chinese carved ivory vase was the top lot of Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers’ auction of Asian, Continental, & American Furniture, Decorative Arts, & Fine Art on January 29, 2011. On display the week prior to the sale, the 14 ½” tall vase, adorned with intricate, continuous carving [Read More]
The Football Match, 1949, by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976) will be offered at auction on 26 May 2011 in Christie’s sale of 20th Century British Artin London. An exceptionally rare depiction of one of Britain’s most popular sports – football – by one of the country’s most iconic British artists, this [Read More]
Quinn’s Auction Galleries will host its 500-lot International Furnishings, Fine & Decorative Arts sale on March 5, 2011. “The selection of fine art and furniture in this auction is, by far, the finest and most diverse we have ever offered,” said Quinn’s VP Communications & Marketing Matthew Quinn. “The main consignor is [Read More]
The on-site sale will feature Mrs. Stallworth’s home, its contents and another home next door. (QUITMAN, Miss.) – The estate of the late Mrs. Flossie Stallworth, who accumulated many antique and beautiful items over the course of her 101 years, will be sold on-site Saturday, March 5, beginning at 10 a.m. (CST). [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields, announce the company’s first substantial offering of vintage pens in the United States on February 22, 2011 during the Fine Writing Instruments auction. Timed to coincide with the annual Los Angeles International Pen Show, the auction will feature examples from several of the major collecting categories including rarely seen [Read More]
An antiques evening on 9th February organised by the ladies of Etchinghill Women’s Institute was a resounding success. Organised as a surprise event for Mrs Dawson who is celebrating her 100th birthday. Etchinghill Women’s Institute have always collaborated with the famous Midland’s auction family, the Wintertons in events of this type. Adrian [Read More]
Day and some of the most beautiful women ever painted proved an irresistible triumvirate to Illustration Art collectors at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills on Friday, Feb. 11 for the company’s $4.132 million Signature® Illustration Art auction. All prices below reflect 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. “The market is as strong and the demand [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of Indian and South East Asian Art on 25 March 2011 will be led by one of the most important paintings by a modern Indian painter ever to have appeared on the market. Untitled (Reclining Nude) is one of the highlights of Sotheby’s Asia Week series of auctions in New [Read More]
(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market lots in a rainbow of categories will cross the block the weekend of Mar. 4-6 at Philip Weiss Auctions, in the firm’s gallery located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside. Offered will be vintage toys and trains, dolls, toy soldiers, comics, comic art, animation, Disney, [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer The Robert Rubin Collection, one of the most important collections of African art to have appeared on the international market in recent years, on 13 May 2011 in New York. Mr. Rubin (1934–2009) was a founding trustee of the Museum for African Art in New York and a major [Read More]
While Washington, D.C., has long been a hive for international activity, the district’s suburb of Falls Church, Va., is where the fine art of many nations will be showcased on Saturday, March 5. That’s when Quinn’s Auction Galleries will host its 500-lot International Furnishings, Fine & Decorative Arts sale. “The selection of [Read More]