When you think of legendary sports photos, few tell a story quite as graphically as the 1956 shot of a euphoric Yogi Berra in a leaping bear hug with teammate Don Larsen, who’d just pitched a perfect World Series game. The rarity of such a moment is borne out by the very [Read More]
Christie’s New York will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, on March 4, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $60,000. Highlights include rare and exceptional works by George Benjamin Luks, Charles Sheeler, Robert Vickrey, and Louis Comfort [Read More]
Sotheby’s, one of the world’s leading international auction houses, is to participate at 19th International Arabian Horse Show (February 21 through 23, 2010) bringing to Qatar select highlights from a single–owner collection of 19th and 20th century jewels, together with watches that showcase the exceptional capability of the world’s finest watchmakers, as [Read More]
Accelerated Marketing Partners announced that it will hold a real estate auction for seven exceptional Upper Deer Valley Homes at the intimate and exclusive Lookout at Deer Valley, a 44-acre community of 35 home sites featuring 270-degree panoramic views of the Deer Valley® Resort and Park City ski runs. The event will [Read More]
Two lamps produced and designed collaboratively by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his younger brother Diego, and a table designed by Diego Giacometti, which were owned by the late English actor James Mason (1909-1984) since the late 1960s, are being offered at Bonhams, New Bond Street as part of its Post War [Read More]
Other highlights include naive portraiture, Federal furniture, scrimshaw and folk art BOSTON, Mass. – Feb 19, 2010 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host its semi-annual auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, March 7th. The sale kicks [Read More]
Collectors of fine Japanese furniture and decorative arts are eagerly awaiting the March 25th sale to be mounted at Bonhams, New York. Consisting of over just over 300 lots, the sale is comprised of early 20th-century Decorative Arts, 18th and 19th-century netsuke and inro, and 18th and 19th-century armor. Cause for excitement [Read More]
Christie’s are to auction 25 masterpieces from the Collection of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi at the auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art on 27 April 2010 in Dubai. While serving first as Mayor and then as Lord Mayor of Jeddah in the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Farsi was instrumental in making [Read More]
I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers will hold its fourth annual New York City Asia Week auction on Friday, March 27 in a new location and with an elite collection of Important Chinese Ceramics and Asian Works of Art. The exhibition and sale will be conducted in the famed Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, [Read More]
Inez Rix, owner and founder of Direct Auctions has been thrilled and surprised with the client demand for 2010. “Traditionally, January and February are sleepy times for us, with sellers and buyers slow to start the year, but so far this year has been a completely different story!” Inez puts the high [Read More]
Picture recalls Rothschild image destroyed in Blitz An early racing painting by Sir Alfred Munnings leads Bonhams New Bond Street’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday 17 March 2010. Originally in the collection of the prominent English racehorse owner and breeder, J.V. Rank, it is the first time that this [Read More]
(WICHITA, Kan.) – An outstanding, marked KPM oval porcelain plaque, boasting a finely detailed portrait titled Rembrandt’s Mother, sold for $7,250 at the sale of the lifetime personal collections of Elizabeth and the late Clarence Lee Dubois of Arkansas. The auction was conducted Feb. 13 in the 4-H Hall of the Sedgwick [Read More]
First growth Bordeaux includes over one hundred full cases from the great modern vintages with remarkable provenance and nearly all in original wooden cases and vast offering of Château Pétrus (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. announced today the highlights of the March 19th and 20th auction of Finest and [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York has announced that it will hold an auction of fine and decorative arts from the contents of Albemarle House, the magnificent home of vintner and philanthropist, Patricia Kluge. The two-day auction, which will take place on June 8 and 9, will be held on the premises, located outside of [Read More]
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin’s birth, Chopin Vodka unveiled a hand-blown, seven-foot tall, 200-liter glass bottle on the red carpet at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This is the largest bottle of vodka ever produced and is an exact replica of Chopin Vodka’s signature bottle. Inspired by its [Read More]
RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house, announces the consignment of cars with a NASCAR connection to its annual ‘Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale’ event, March 26th – 28th in Florida. Taking pole position is a 2007 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS NASCAR, raced by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Challenging for the [Read More]
The collapse of an Ocean City real-estate partnership has led to competing auctions for waterfront condominiums — and created an opportunity for real-estate bargain hunters. On Saturday, February 27, Marshall Auctions will hold an auction of 11 luxury condo units and available boat slips, all of which are part of Bahia Vista, [Read More]
(WAYNE, Pa.) – Coming off a highly successful vintage clocks and horology auction at the end of last year, in which about 250 lots changed hands (half of them being wood shelf clocks dating to the early 19th century), Gordon S. Converse & Co. will ring in 2010 with a Discovery Antique [Read More]