An advanced but intentionally low-key collector, the late William D. “Bill” Ansley amassed a select private collection of contemporary art glass over a 40-year period, and in so doing, created a panoramic three-dimensional history of Murano production. To the amazement of his fellow collectors, Ansley accomplished this feat almost entirely from his [Read More]
Christie’s Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture sale achieved a total of $32,358,750, with works by Andrew Wyeth, Mary Cassatt, and Charles Prendergast commanding the highest prices. Two new world auction records were set for American artists Guy Pène Du Bois and John Joseph Boyle, and a second highest price was achieved [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong completed its five-day Autumn sales with strong results across the board in Asian art, watches, jewelry and wine. Totaling HK$1.65 billion/US$ 212.5 million/£ 128 million, the results show a robust recovery of the art and auction market, giving Christie’s a 58% market share for the year in Asia. Records [Read More]
Everything is bigger Texas – including the amount of recreational opportunities. Buyers will soon have the chance to purchase three prime Texas acreages during two upcoming auction events. Rising Star Ranch, consisting of 100 acres and a farmhouse in Rising Star and two Cleburne properties, a 72.56 acre property and a 16+/- [Read More]
Bonhams has unveiled an impressive line-up for its annual sale of Important Collectors’ Motor Cars & Fine Automobilia at London’s Olympia on 7 December Leading the charge is a 1906 Rolls-Royce Light 20hp Tourer, one of only two survivors of the 17 built when the company was in its infancy and the [Read More]
A 5lb (2.25kg) pearl, dubbed the ‘Palawan Princess’, the second largest pearl ever discovered, valued at as much as £250,000 is set to go under the hammer at Bonhams auction of Natural History in Los Angeles on December 6, 2009. The pearl measures six inches in diameter and bears an uncanny resemblance [Read More]
The Dec. 8 Heritage Auctions Signature® Timepieces Auction will offer more than 650 lots of fine watches and assorted timepieces that are no less than a survey of the last 300 years of the art of horology. Headlining the Dallas auction is a magnificent Cartier jade, coral, diamond and rock crystal mystery [Read More]
At Sotheby’s Amsterdam two important, newly discovered still lifes by the much sought-after Dutch artist, Adriaen Coorte, were both the subject of long and spirited bidding battles and the two paintings brought a combined total of €3,097,500 (£2,827,219), far in excess of pre-sale expectations. Six bidders competed for Still life of strawberries [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Russian Art Sales Series concluded bringing a total of £19.3/$31.9 million – near the high estimate (£14,882,080-21,246,220) – and established a healthy sell-through-rate of 74% overall. Highlights of the sales series include: • ‘Romanov Heirlooms’ Sale realises £7 million, seven-times the high estimate of £900,000. The auction was 100% sold [Read More]
Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of furniture, fixtures and equipment from FDIC Receivership for Cooperative Bank in North Carolina, according to Jerry Jenkins. Items in this online bank auction include: computers, executive office furniture, leather chairs, IT equipment, copier/printers, office equipment, framed art, storage and shelving, kitchen appliances, as [Read More]
Concierge Auctions will host a lender-owned luxury auction of 6946 Bristol Drive in Berkeley, California on December 19, the company announced. Previously offered to $1.36 million, the property is listed by Patricia Duran of Red Crown Realty in cooperation with East Bay Sotheby’s International Realty. The 4,120-square-foot custom home, located in the [Read More]
United Country Auction Services, in association with Finelines, Inc., will be liquidating the Rancho Valley Chevrolet, Rio Rancho Pontiac, GMC, Buick and Rio Ranch Isuzu Truck Center auto dealerships in Pomona, Calif., on Saturday, December 5. “This auction will give bidders the opportunity to purchase a variety of auto related personal property, [Read More]
Ariotek was created in 2009 from the amalgamation of three very successful web based companies. All three companies have been privately owned and profitable since creation, the oldest of which started trading in early 2001. Ariotek now host thousands of web sites, all of which are hosted on Ariotek’s state of the [Read More]
Russian art continues to go from strength to strength as Bonhams Russian Art sale fetches an impressive £1.9 million. The eminent names on sale included Aivazovsky and Fabergé. The top lot by Aivazovsky, whose career spanned almost the entire 19th century, named “The Morning Catch”, reached an outstanding £378,400 from an estimate [Read More]
On Sunday 6 December at 4pm, Bonhams & Goodman will be hosting the To Life 2009 Fine Art auction to raise much needed funds for the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre in Elsternwick, Victoria. Artists, collectors and dealers have generously donated over 60 artworks to be sold at auction with all [Read More]
A packed audience of over 1,000 people in the fabulous surroundings of the BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, witnessed a total sell out auction of the Willy Neutkens Collection of BMW Motorcycles on Saturday 28 November, 2009. The Collection comprised 94 Lots (91 motorcycles; an Ural side-car; a BMW stationary engine; and [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Sculpture and Works Of Art in London on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 will open with an unusual collection of stone architectural carvings brought together over a period of 17 years by collector and enthusiast Richard Wiseman. Depicting demons, men and fantastic beasts, these carvings – including a [Read More]
From a busy saleroom opened to capacity, with two banks of 60 telephone lines reserved to execute bids on behalf of potential buyers, clients enthusiastically competed to acquire a piece of Russian Imperial history in Sotheby’s London Sale of ‘Romanov Heirlooms: The Lost Inheritance of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna’. The auction, [Read More]