Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby’s in London (featuring German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, The Orientalist Sale, Spanish Paintings and The Scandinavian Sale) realised a strong total of £8,382,550 / €9,688,559 against a pre-sale estimate of £6,480,000-9,572,000. The sale was 75% sold-by-lot and 89% sold-by-value. Highlights of the [Read More]

Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will begin the summer by selling more than 400 lots fresh from local estates. Garden Sculpture and Antiques A Westchester estate provides a large collection of marble and cement garden statuary and antiques including a seven-foot high marble statue of Pan, a large marble Discus Thrower [Read More]

Filene’s Basement has announced that an affiliate of Men’s Wearhouse emerged as the winning bidder in a nine-hour bankruptcy auction for assets of the off-price chain that was held in Manhattan on Friday. The affiliate, K&G Acquisition Corp., offered a total of $67.0 million that will cover the purchase of 17 to [Read More]

A photograph of the father of the Brontë sisters, lost to the literary and art world since it was auctioned in 1898, has been discovered at a provincial antiques fair and will be sold by Surrey fine art auctioneer Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers. The sale is on June 24-25. The faded sepia [Read More]

While the finest examples in each category brought predictably high prices, it was the reawakening of the middle range that spurred the most discussion at Dan Morphy Auctions’ $1.3 million Spring Sale. The May 28-30 event showed strength at all levels, said auction company owner Dan Morphy, even in areas that had [Read More]

More than 40 distressed homes in greater Memphis will be sold at auction in two sales slated for June 13 and July 14 by Roebuck Auctions. A handful are in need of repair, but many are in move-in condition or would make excellent real estate investments. The sales will be held at [Read More]

H & H have assembled an interesting selection of quality lots for the June 9-10 sale at the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton. Derbyshire. UK. The full list comprises 94 cars, including 14 from well-known motoring journalist – and old friend of Classic Car Weekly – Malcolm Mackay. Malcolm has owned many of the [Read More]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment company Kennedy Wilson, announces the formation of its Commercial Auction Division. Clifford Smith, senior vice president of Kennedy Wilson’s Commercial Investment Group (KW Investments), has been appointed to lead the commercial auction division, according to Rhett Winchell, president [Read More]

Original 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe to Headline Gooding & Company’s Upcoming Auction Gooding & Company, the official auction house for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, is thrilled to announce the sale of an incomparable piece of Bugatti history – the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe for its annual Pebble Beach auctions, [Read More]

Brilliant diamonds, rare art deco pieces and a unique collection from Belle Epoque actress Réjane featured BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of fine jewelry at its Boston gallery on Tuesday, June 16th at 10:00 a.m. Highlights include Art Deco jewelry [Read More]

Mecum Auction, the high-performance and collector car auction specialists, will offer 250 classic and collector automobiles for sale at the 2009 Mecum St. Paul Auction, June 20, 2009, at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Collectors are welcome to attend the one-day event to bid on classic cars ranging from 1930s Ford street rods [Read More]

A massive Mercedes Benz saloon, owned by the vendor for nearly 50 years, is going under the Charterhouse hammer at their auction of classic cars and motorbikes at Sherborne Castle on Sunday 19th July. “The vendor bought the car second hand in 1960 from Brooklands Ltd of Bond Street in London. As [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, has been selected by Pamela Rose Auction Company, LLC, to provide live online bidding for the auction of the corporate collection owned by The Dana Holding Corporation. The live auction will take place June 17 at 5:00 p.m. EDT, with live online [Read More]

An autographed version of one of the most iconic images of the 20th Century is being made available for purchase in the current RR Auction. In 1953, at the height of the 1950s Communist witch-hunt, Albert Einstein signed the photo for award-winning CBS and ABC anchor reporter Howard K. Smith as a [Read More]

In its second year running, the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary art is hosting an International contemporary art sale on Saturday 6th of June 2009. More than thirty renowned artists, many from Egypt, have donated work to support townhouse, a non-profit foundation. Their generosity is testament to the gallery’s ten-year history of promoting [Read More]

Christie’s New York Old Masters and 19th Century Art sale realized $6,486,150/ £4,053,843/ €4,632,964 and was 86% sold by value and 72% sold by lot. The top price of $722,500/£451,562/ €516,071 was achieved for two works: The Japanese Scroll by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) and La Leçon Difficile by William Adolphe [Read More]

1973 Chevy Impala goes on the block to fund work of Safety Advocate If you thought air-bags originated in Scandinavia in the 1990s, you need to look two decades back and to the heart of America’s Motor City for the first production car that was equipped with this protection. What is believed [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A block of six rare Canadian error stamps (Scott 387A), never hinged, from the corner of the sheet, sold for $50,850 at a multi-estate sale held May 8-9 by Philip Weiss Auctions. It was the first of two weekend May events conducted by the firm; the other was held [Read More]