Sotheby’s sale, the Splendour of Venice, to be held in London on Tuesday July 6, 2010, allows a glimpse into the dazzlingly beautiful world that existed inside some of Venice’s most splendid palazzi during some of the most prosperous and charmed years of the Venetian Republic. The sale will consist of some [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company announced the opening of a new uptown auction and exhibition gallery at 450 Park Avenue. The space will open in November with the first of the “Carte Blanche” sales, an innovative, new series of sales curated by notable art world figures and the fall Contemporary Art evening [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris will offer one of the most carefully curated ensembles of African & Oceanic Art to be offered on the market in recent years, on June 16. The works come from a number of esteemed private collections, including the famous Friede collection, and the sale is divided equally between Oceania and [Read More]
Heritage Auction Galleries (HA.com) has announced the promotion of Cristiano Bierrenbach to the position of Vice President of International Numismatics. “In the short time Cris has been with Heritage, he has become instrumental to the impressive growth enjoyed by our World Coin category,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. “Cris will [Read More]
Realizing total proceeds of € 1,2* million, the two day auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst on 17/18 May in Hamburg was a real success. With 83 percent lots sold, the special evening auction was a true highlight. “This clearly shows that the market for rare books is extremely stable and [Read More]
Bruce Nauman’s masterful charcoal, pencil, pastel and watercolor Human Nature, 1983, is expected to bring $250,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 9 Signature 74; Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art Auction at its Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. “This sublime piece comes to auction from the Collection of [Read More]
A 1957-58 Italian league winner’s medal, awarded to Welsh international footballer John Charles, is to be sold at Bonhams, Chester as part of its sale of Sporting Memorabilia on 16 June. It is expected to fetch £8,000 – 10,000. Charles, who was one of the first British professional players to be signed [Read More]
The summits of Moel Cynghorion and Foel Goch in Snowdonia National Park, UK are for auction in a land sale. The sale by Kivells takes place in Llanberis, Wales on 9 July. The summits, near Moel Eilio in the national park, include the 2,211ft (674m) high Moel Cynghorion and the slightly smaller, [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris will offer Furniture, Silver and Old Master Paintings formerly from the collection of Madame Antenor Patiño, on 22 September 2010. The collection – divided between La Quinta, her principal residence in Portugal, and her Paris flat – affords Sotheby’s the opportunity to once again pay tribute to the renowned Patiño [Read More]
Collective Real Estate Group announced that it will hold a sealed-bid real estate auction for 25 luxury condominiums at Florida’s pristine Seaview Place at Gulf Landings. The 3,500-acre premier triple-community development offers a direct deep-water boating entrance, public and private Gulf of Mexico beach access and convenient location 40 minutes from metropolitan [Read More]
Midcentury Modern Design and Art Deco are highlighted by a Parzinger and Paul McCobb collection from a Rye estate including a pair of gorgeous Tommi Parzinger torchieres, a large Parzinger dining cart, and a George Nelson for Herman Miller Wall Unit. Manhattan estates provided pieces by Dunbar, Robsjohn Gibbings, Gerard Gallet, and [Read More]
An 85% original Dire Wolf skull being offered at public auction comes with a direct link to the world’s most famous tar pit, La Brea, and could bring more than $18,000 when it comes up as part of Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills’ Sunday, June 6 Signature® Natural History Auction at 9478 [Read More]
Christie’s announced that they will offer one of the last of the great female portraits painted by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 23 June 2010. Executed in 1917-18, Frauenbildnis (Portrait of Ria Munk III) is the third and final painting in a series [Read More]
Sale will be conducted at Finney’s spacious gallery in Schodack, N.Y., 15 minutes from Albany. (SCHODACK, N.Y.) – Hundreds of quality lots from the estate of the late Dr. Kevin-John McIntyre of East Greenbush, N.Y., will be sold without reserve (everything sells, regardless of price) on Saturday, June 12, by Finney’s Auction [Read More]
The auction will be held at the Stevens Auction Company showroom in Aberdeen, at 9 a.m. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The lifetime single-owner collection of Carl Gillespie – mostly vintage toys and guns, but to include petroliana items and antique farm equipment – will be sold Saturday, June 12, by Stevens Auction Company. [Read More]
The on-site auction will be held at the couple’s home, at 202 East Galena Road in Big Rock, Ill. (BIG ROCK, Ill.) – Brian and Kim Ward are celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary on Saturday, June 12, and everyone’s invited. They’re also selling their two homes and sizable collections that day, too, [Read More]
Bonhams Hong Kong today celebrated the first-ever “Golden Gavel Auction” in its history, when part of the world’s finest collection of important Chinese snuff bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, sold 100% and achieved world record prices. Against presale estimates of HK$20,000,000 (£1.8m), the sale total was HK$66,146,800 (£5.8m), with every [Read More]
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) made a striking appearance at a local auction house, albeit in the form of a sixteenth century miniature portrait. The 6cm high oval portrait miniature of our iconic monarch had been brought into Richard Winterton’s routine valuation day by a local client. The Queen is depicted in her [Read More]