Christie’s New York announced that it has been entrusted with the sale of The Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection on September 16 as part of Christie’s Fall Asian Art Week. This collection of approximately 120 lots valued in excess of $15 million will be led by a [Read More]
Christie’s New York announced the appointment of Mr. Everett Fahy, former chairman of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former Director of the Frick Collection, as senior consultant to Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Art department. Mr. Fahy is widely recognized as one of most distinguished scholars of [Read More]
On Tuesday 6th July 2010, in the first ever sale of its type, Sotheby’s will bring together some 21 lots, the intrinsic quality and importance of which will be matched by extraordinary nature of their provenance. Ranging in date from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and emanating from all corners of [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Important Russian Art auction, the first of our Summer sales of Russian Art this week, tonight realised a total of £10,448,450 ($15,079,203) almost reaching the pre-sale top estimate (est. £7,730,000-11,320,000). The auction, which was well-attended, established two new artist records and achieved an extremely healthy sell-through rate by value of [Read More]
On June 23rd Bonhams’ Book Department closes their spring-summer 2010 season with a New York auction that features a number of fresh-to-the-market high spots. This diverse sale spans the centuries from the 1490s to the 1990s. Among the most coveted lots of the sale, and the undisputed highlight in the category of [Read More]
Qualified buyers will have the opportunity to purchase a one-of-a-kind, custom-built home near Asheville, N.C., and the Great Smoky Mountains this month. Conducted by Mike Fisher, auctioneer and chief executive officer of United Country – The Redfield Group, the live auction will take place onsite at 30 Luska Ridge, Waynesville, N.C. Registration [Read More]
A collection of 19th century photographic portraits of Russian Royalty goes under the hammer at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale on 8 June in London (estimate £2,000 – 4,000). Many of the portraits are of the family of Tsar Nicholas I who reigned from 1825 to 1855 and of the [Read More]
A special event in Wil (St. Gallen), Switzerland, proved to be a highlight in the schedules of several hundred stamp collectors and investors from all over the world this week: On the evening of Friday, 4 June 2010, the world’s most significant stamp auction at the Rapp auction house, ended with an [Read More]
A rare set of ancient royal jewelry, consisting of a necklace and amulet named “The Pleiades Star Crescent Necklace”, is to be sold at a private auction being held by high-end luxury auction-house BillionaireXchange (www.BillionaireXchange.com). On May 13, 2010, Forbes, CNN, Fox and many other news sources reported that a very rare [Read More]
Tranzon Auction Properties, with corporate offices in Portland, Maine, announced today that it has been engaged by TD Bank to market and auction 16 gas and convenience stores stretching from Southern New Hampshire to South-Eastern Massachusetts. “We’re marketing these properties locally, regionally and nationally to alert interested parties of the sales scheduled [Read More]
Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, is pleased to announce the global launch of Christie’s Mobile Web, an optimized mobile experience that is free to all users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), regardless of the device’s operating platform. The move builds on the July 2009 launch of [Read More]
Monterey, CA – Russo and Steele is pleased to announce an additional sale date to its 10th Anniversary auction event in Monterey, California this August 12-14, 2010. The Monterey auction event will present a range of the most luxurious and collectable European sports, American muscle, hot rods and custom automobiles suitable to [Read More]
The painting entitled ‘James Wyatt and his Granddaughter Mary Wyatt’ by William Henry Millais, who was assisted in its production by his brother, the better-known Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais, is expected to fetch £20,000-30,000 at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings auction on 29th September 2010. The stunning work for auction at [Read More]
Monterey, CA – Located in the heart of the historic downtown Monterey at the Marriott Hotel Russo and Steele will showcase over 250 collector automobiles to the thousands of enthusiasts that descend on Monterey during what has become known as one of the most prestigious week’s in the collector automobile hobby. A [Read More]
Notes taken during Michael Faraday’s ground breaking Royal Institution lectures on the nature of light and magnetism are for sale at Bonhams Book Sale on 8 June (£5,000-10,000). The notes, bound in one volume, were put together by Maria Herries, daughter of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer John Charles Herries, and [Read More]
Two dresses from Alexander McQueen’s Autumn/Winter 2007 Ready-To-Wear collection, which was inspired by the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, are to be sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge as part of its Vision 21 sale on 30 June 2010 at 1pm. The dresses are among the first to be sold at auction since the [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris Summer Evening Sale of Contemporary Art achieved a successful total of €9,517,050 / $11,679,324 / £7,932,168, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €5.1-7.0 million / $6.3-8.6 million / £4.2-5.8 million. The sale achieved exemplary sell through rates of 93% by lot and almost 100% by value and these [Read More]
Gene Shapiro, President of the eponymous American auction house specializing in Russian art, has announced that his company has moved to new premises in New York, located at 506 East 74th Street in the Upper East Side section of Manhattan. The inaugural auction will take place on June 15th, 2010, beginning at [Read More]