“Paperweights of this quality attract high bidding in any economy,” says Larry Selman, president of L. H. Selman Ltd. Bidders from Europe were especially active against U.S. buyers, with very lively internet bidding. Along with those from the U.S., there were bidders from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the [Read More]
Over the course of 30 years, one of the most public and distinguished figures in Indianapolis, the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr. (1918-2008), quietly assembled a truly outstanding private collection of 19th and early 20th-century American painting. This momentous collection will form the centerpiece of Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 10-13, 2009 American [Read More]
Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces its Summer Estates Auction. The two-day auction features antiques, fine art and collectibles from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s second location in California. The auction takes place Saturday and Sunday June 27-28 next to the Windward Grille at 109 [Read More]
Christie’s London, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on 30 June 2009 and will offer 41 lots including exceptional and significant works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. The first auction [Read More]
preliminary drawing from the hand of Alberto Vargas, for what would become the very first Vargas Girl in the December 1940 issue of Esquire Magazine, will be one of the highlights of the July 15 Signature® Illustration Art Auction at Heritage Auction Galleries. This is the first auction to feature major Illustration [Read More]
Halls Auction Company (www.HallsAuctionCompany.com) announces the two-day auction of estate collectibles from the collection of Ruby Gano on June 13 and 14, according to Scott Hall, auctioneer. “Ruby Gano began acquiring pottery and glassware as a department store employee in the 1930’s,” explained Hall. “The store sold a line of Fiesta Ware [Read More]
Sotheby’s London forthcoming sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on the evening of Wednesday, June 24, 2009 will be led by rare works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Pablo Picasso’s Homme à l’épée, a striking and monumental depiction of a musketeer from the artist’s [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday, June 25, 2009 will be spearheaded by three exceptionally rare Andy Warhol paintings from an important European collection – Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Brown (Tuna Fish Disaster), Hammer and Sickle and Diamond Dust Shoes – and features Peter Doig’s painting Almost Grown, which ranks [Read More]
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A rare and fine E. Howard & Co. #61 astronomical floor standing regulator clock sold for $161,000 at a sale of vintage clocks and watches held May 30-31 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. It was the third such E. Howard #61 sold within a year by Fontaine’s. The other two [Read More]
The inaugural sale features The Signature Cellar From a Private European Collector with pre-sale estimates ranging from $75 to $36,000 Bloomsbury Auctions’ inaugural Fine & Rare Wines sale on June 19th at 10:00am includes a spectacular array of wines for both investment and consumption. The Signature Cellar From a Private European Collector [Read More]
Upcoming June 27th Auction Includes an Outstanding Collection from a Prominent Restaurant (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart offered a second installment of French Classics from a Magnificent Cellar this weekend in Chicago, realizing $1,894,350 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,204,010 to $1,805,060. Highlights included a case of 12 bottles of [Read More]
European and American furniture and decorative arts — featuring antiques and collectibles formerly within noted institutional and private collections — come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on Monday, June 15, 2009. Strong international interest is expected for nearly 80-lots of deaccessioned property from several leading California museums, offered [Read More]
An extraordinary cabinet by one of the greatest French furniture makers, Francois Linke will go under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Continental Furniture And Works Of Art Sale on 17th June and is expected to fetch £1M-£1.5M. A version of this armoire by Linke was sold in New York in 2006 for [Read More]
Sotheby’s London biannual Russian Art Evening Auction achieved the solid total of £7,906,050 ($12,546,901), within its pre-sale auction estimate of £6,740,000-9,920,000, and was very well-attended. The sale was 63% sold by lot and 73.3% by value, and saw new auction records established for four Russian artists: Isaak Brodsky, Boris Kustodiev, Konstantin Kryzhitsky [Read More]
The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place at Christie’s on 30 June 2009 and will offer 41 lots including exceptional and significant works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. The first [Read More]
In Bonhams next sale of Fine Watches on June 10th, one of the greatest watches ever made, a Patek Phillipe watch from Tiffany & Co, one of only four such to appear at auction, will be sold. Lot 146 by Patek Philippe is a very fine and important 18ct gold perpetual calendar [Read More]
Oscar Kokoschka’s magnificent riverscape, `London, Chelsea Reach’, a view from Lindsay House looking towards Battersea was done when the artist was 71 years old in 1957 having fled Prague in 1938 to escape Hitler’s invading army. Bonhams are selling this picture (estimate at £700,000 to £1m) at its Impressionist and Modern Art [Read More]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Skinner will host its June Discovery auction on Wednesday, June 17th and Thursday June 18th in its Marlborough, Massachusetts gallery at 274 Cedar Hill Street. Session I begins on Wednesday at 2 p.m. with silver, followed by estate jewelry and textiles & couture. Thursday’s session begins at 10 a.m. and [Read More]