Christie’s New York sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Art featuring Select Works from the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries on June 9 achieved $11,749,750/£8,103,276/€9,791,458 with sell-through rates of 60% by lot, 78% by value. The top lot of the sale was William Bouguereau’s Pietà, painted in 1876, which sold for $2,770,500/£1,910,690/€2,308,750 – the [Read More]
Sotheby’s two-day auction of The Collection of Patricia Kluge, held in Charlottesville Virginia, concluded bringing $15,158,227, exceeding pre-sale expectations (est. $9/14 million). Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard. Photo: TTR-Sotheby’s International Realty The historic sale was the first on-site house sale conducted by Sotheby’s in North America in over 20 years, and more [Read More]
The live, on-site auction of Felicity Farm, a pristine 15.8-acre estate with grand residence in Wawa, Pennsylvania, has been moved to Saturday, June 26, and the reserve has been lowered to $1 million, announced George Graham, CEO of Concierge Auctions. Previously offered to $3.7 million, the property will absolutely sell to the [Read More]
Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it has been selected by Simmons & Company Auctioneers, Inc. to provide live online bidding for its two-day Winchester advertising, memorabilia and sporting goods and tools auction, slated for Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26 at 9:00 a.m. [Read More]
Bonhams is proud to present the unique red Silverstone Calibre 11 Chronograph designed as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of TAG Heuer, and to be auctioned for charity on Wednesday 15th December. The watch is estimated to fetch £6,000-8,000 and will be sold alongside The Haslinger Collection of fine and rare [Read More]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, sold more than 2, 200 equipment items, including 70 cranes, during a two-day multi-million euro Grand Opening unreserved public auction held last week (June 3 – 4) in Ocana, Spain. The auction attracted thousands of people, including more than 1,100 [Read More]
May was an exciting month in the world of online auctions. Keno Auctions, owned by American antiques expert Leigh Keno, set three world records during its Inaugural sale; Dargate Auction Galleries sold 756 lots to online bidders in its most successful online auction since joining Artfact Live! and Artcurial’s May 11th Hermès [Read More]
A superbly colorful and remarkably well-preserved American hand-carved Cigar Store Indian, which had sat in a Washington, D.C.-area basement for at least 20 years, brought a world record public auction price of $203,150 on May 22 as the top lot in Heritage Auction Galleries’ Grand Format Political & Americana Auction. The auction [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Important Books and Manuscripts in London on 27th May was an outstanding success, with three world records for an inscribed Das Kapital by Karl Marx, a letter from the illustrator John Tenniel to Lewis Carroll and an inscribed first edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker. The sale totalled [Read More]
An historic Colt 1862 Revolver that belonged to Lieutenant A. Sinclair of the Confederate States Navy, who served aboard the Alabama, the famous Civil War raider, is estimated to sell for £10,000 to £15,000 at Bonhams sale of Antique Arms and Armour on July 28th. CSS Alabama (1862-1864), a 1050-ton screw steam [Read More]
Concierge Auctions will conduct a live luxury real estate auction of the Teton Valley Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on July 16. The highest bidder over $15 million will be the new owner. The sale is being conducted in cooperation with listing broker Richard Lewis of the Lewis, Lewis & Kleiman team [Read More]
Christie’s London announced that they will offer an icon of Pop Art – Silver Liz by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 30 June 2010. Unseen in public for over 20 years, the work was executed in 1963 and is one of only 2 paintings [Read More]
eFleetDirect has partnered with ZOOMWAREHOUSE, a new, dynamic online auction to sell fleet, off-lease and repossession vehicles. Unlike traditional physical and online auctions which represent both the buyer and seller, eFleetDirect in this venue is the seller and values a strong relationship with the buyers. Using ZOOMWAREHOUSE means there is no “middleman” [Read More]
Bonhams celebrated its second motorcycle auction at Quail Lodge in Carmel this past month demonstrating the market’s strong interest in early machines. With 77 lots selling for more than $600,000, the recent sale was by far the most successful motorcycle auction to date this year in America. Bonhams is no stranger to [Read More]
International real estate investment and services company Kennedy Wilson announced that it offered and sold 27 homes of the 27-story twin point towers at Palisade Palms, a beachfront luxury condominium project located in Galveston, TX, through an auction it conducted on Sunday, June 6th at the Omni Houston Hotel. The auction was [Read More]
Jesse James of West Coast Choppers fame will sell his 1936 Ford Custom Five Window Coupe at No Reserve during the Inaugural 2010 Barrett-Jackson Orange County Auction. This is the first time that James has consigned a vehicle from his personal collection at Barrett-Jackson. The hot rod will be one of the [Read More]
Copies of the first four editions of Wisden, the world famous ‘Bible of Cricket’, are for sale at Bonhams Book Sale in Oxford on 29 June. They are being sold on behalf of Oxfam, as are many other items in the sale. Wisden was first published in 1864 by the cricketer John [Read More]
A pair of elegant mahogany Chippendale side chairs with shell carved back, pierced splats slip seats all set on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet, Massachusetts, circa 1760 were among the hundreds of items sold at Nadeau’s Auction Gallery’s annual American Antiques auction, held March 27th. The pair sold for $6,325. [Read More]