DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Andrew Jones Auctions has two major events planned for December – just in time for the holidays. A Design for the Home and Garden auction will be held on Sunday, December 6th, followed by a Home for the Holidays Sale just two days later, on Tuesday, December [Read More]
CRANSTON, R.I. – Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will hold its first-ever Modern & Contemporary Art auction on Monday, November 30th, with 76 curated lots headlined by a very large, untitled double-stack Blockhead painting by Eddie Martinez (Conn./N.Y., b. 1977) and a portrait oil on canvas rendering by Ben Enwonwu (Nigerian, 1917-1994). Both [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is honored to announce the auction of historic wines from The Personal Estate of Joseph Phelps being offered in their December 18 & 19 Auction of Finest & Rarest Wines. A towering figure in the history of Napa Valley winemaking, Phelps passed in 2015, leaving behind a [Read More]
RENO, Nev. – A rare Wells Fargo and Company stock certificate from 1870 sold for $2,875, a 1960s-era 25-cent Jennings slot machine from the famous Nevada Club Casino brought $2,625, and a $1,000 Federal Reserve note from 1934 realized $2,500 at Holabird Western Americana Collections’ 5-day “Spooktacular Sale” held Oct. 29-Nov. 2, [Read More]
MILFORD, Conn. – Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will host their last auction of the year on Thursday, November 19th at 2pm Eastern time. The 242-lot online sale includes American and European art from the 19th and early 20th centuries, modern and contemporary art, fine prints, sculpture and drawings. Bidding is available by [Read More]
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Nye & Company Auctioneers’ two day, online-only Estate Treasures auction on Wednesday and Thursday, December 2nd and 3rd, at 10 am Eastern time, will offer a variety of fine and decorative arts. Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com and the Nye [Read More]
While storyboarding the stoner satire Your Highness (2011), craftsman William Simpson was approached to deliver idea workmanship for an entirely different task. The proposed Game of Thrones TV program would yearningly attempt to adjust George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire dream books. After HBO greenlit the show, Simpson [Read More]
NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – An online-only Watches, Jewelry & Decorative Arts auction featuring the single-owner lifetime clock collection of Bruce Walsh will be held on Saturday, November 21st, by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., based in New Hamburg. The 298-lot auction will begin at 9 am Eastern time, with online bidding [Read More]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A watercolor on paper figural work by Marc Chagall, a life-size marble figure of Pamona by Adelaide Pandiani Maraini, a Chinese Imperial style ormolu, enamel and paste-set automaton table clock, and original oil paintings by Montague Dawson and Daniel Ridgway Knight will all come up for bid [Read More]
NEW ORLEANS, La. – An exceedingly rare New Orleans .900 silver fireman’s speaking trumpet from 1891, plus original paintings by Clementine Hunter, Sarah Ashley Longshore, Hovsep Pushman and Jose Puyet are just a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s live and online Important Fall Estates Auction slated [Read More]
NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – A French Atmos perpetual time clock from the 1940s chimed on time for $6,490, a Wettlaufer decorated child’s wagon made in Canada circa 1890 rolled away for $5,900 and a cased set of English dueling pistols from William Chance & Son (London, circa 1830-1860), hit the mark [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. announce a one-day Auction of Finest & Rarest Wines to be held in Hong Kong on November 21 starting at 6:00pm HKT/5:00am ET. Valued at an estimated $2.1-3.1 million, the sale will feature over 1,065 lots of incredible diversity and provenance. Bidders can utilize HDH’s industry-leading bidding [Read More]
WESTPORT, Conn. – A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe signed and inscribed “to Joe” (possibly Joe DiMaggio), a one-page letter written in 1796 and signed by George Washington on the eve of his retirement, and 25 lots relating to Napoleon Bonaparte (mostly from an important single-owner collection) are all part of [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart, America’s top wine auction house, continued its strong performance thus far in 2020, with a 100% sold October sale, posting $6.3 million in sales against a pre-auction estimate of $3.6-5.4 million. The intense bidding brought strong hammer prices with many records shattered and over 85% of lots selling above [Read More]
LYNBROOK, N.Y. – The original handwritten lyrics to the classic 1956 Elvis Presley hit song Heartbreak Hotel, a copy of Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit signed by John Lennon and twice signed by Yoko, a rare Titanic item with a reference to the American businessman John Jacob Astor, and a scarce and highly [Read More]
RENO, Nev. – Original artwork for what is widely regarded as the very first psychedelic rock poster – created in 1965 for the grand opening of the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada and advertising the acid-rock group The Charlatans for a series of dates that never happened – is an [Read More]
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. –– Poster Auctions International’s Rare Posters Auction #82 on Sunday, November 15th will feature masterpieces and rarities from over two centuries of poster design. Top artists include Cappiello, Chéret, Haring, Mucha, Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec. The auction will be on view to the public October 30-November 14; the auction [Read More]
CRANSTON, R.I. – A live and online Fall Fine Art & Antiques auction packed with 533 lots of fine art, Asian arts, furniture and more is slated for Saturday, October 31st, at 10 am Eastern time by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Limited in-house seating is by appointment only, just for active bidders [Read More]