An extensive collection of Beswick horses and other figures are to go under the Charterhouse hammer on Thursday 14th August in their specialist auction of Beswick and Royal Doulton. The collection comprises over 100 pieces and features several rare items, including a Canadian Mounted Cowboy estimated £500 – 700 and its adversary, [Read More]

VINELAND, N.J. – Bertoia Auctions’ owner, Jeanne Bertoia, has confirmed that the family-owned business based in southern New Jersey will conduct a series of sales comprised exclusively of the Donald Kaufman automotive, comic character and European wind-up toy collection. The first of the ongoing auction sessions is slated for March 27-28, 2009. [Read More]

NEW YORK – On November 4, 2008, Sotheby’s New York will present for sale three important paintings by the Russian artist Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev on behalf of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Included in the offering is Grigoriev’s Pipe Players, a preeminent example of the artist’s Visages du Monde (Faces of [Read More]

Bangalore – Banking on an online platform auction house, SaffronArt, closed a record sale featuring rare and significant works of Indian modern and contemporary artists registering a total sale value of around Rs 39 crore. Hosted on an innovative and interactive online platform, the auction featured the work of globally-sought painters, sculptors [Read More]

BALTIMORE, MD – An authentic oil on canvas by French painter Edouard Léon Cortès has sold for $40,625.00 at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The painting, given by an unknown donor to Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake (Baltimore), depicts the flower market at the Place de la République in Paris. “We [Read More]

(Hillsborough, N.C.) – An original oil painting by New York artist Arthur Parton (1842-1914), titled “Eventide Landscape,” sold for $13,800 at a multi-estate sale held June 14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The oil on canvas rendering, signed lower left, was a pastoral landscape, depicting a stream meandering through [Read More]

Voorhees, NJ – As the real estate market continues to trudge along, buyers and sellers are finding themselves turning to an age old method of real estate transfer… auctions. Traditionally, auctions were used as a way to sell distressed properties and to manage high-demand communities. The real estate industry is undergoing change [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions’ June 25th Bibliophile Sale consists of over 500 carefully selected works that encompass a full range of children’s books and original illustration artwork, a distinguished group of library sets, early printed and art books, and a fine selection of 19th and 20th century literature. The sale features original illustrations by [Read More]

Two paintings by the visual poet of the industrial landscape, Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (British, 1887-1976), belonging to the environmentally conscious Co-operative Financial Services (CFS), will go under the hammer in Bonhams next sale of 20th Century British Art on 2 July, New Bond Street. LS Lowry’s The Footbridge, (estimated at £120,000-180,000) [Read More]

Determined, competitive bidders did not let the sweltering 98-degree heat deter them from vying for the rare collector motorcars and automobilia Bonhams offered on Sunday, June 8th, at the site of the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance event in Connecticut. Spirited action kept the standing-room only crowd riveted to the podium where chief auctioneer [Read More]

Pasadena, CA – International 20th Century design, décor and art will take center stage at John Moran Auctioneers’ July 22nd, 2008 Antiques and Fine Estates Sale. Items by Georg Jensen, Tiffany, and Pairpoint, and artistic works by Lyonel Feininger, Claude Vernard and Cesare Lapini are expected to command enthusiastic bidding from an [Read More]

LONDON – Sotheby’s London will present Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, a major auction of new works by Damien Hirst, on 15 and 16 September 2008. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever is an historic sale which incorporates an extraordinary range of works by Mr. Hirst, all created over the past two years. [Read More]

Heffel’s announces their inaugural live auction of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art to be held on Wednesday, November 19th at the Queen’s Park Ballroom of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Toronto. Heffel’s will be the first auction house in Canada to hold bi-annual live sales devoted to Post-War & Contemporary Art. The [Read More]

On May 31st Heffel’s May second session online auction of Fine Canadian Art set numerous artist records and brought in $1,913,000. Heffel’s first session live auction of Fine Canadian Art held on May 22nd brought in $12,024,975, making the total for the first and second session an impressive $13,938,000 in the spring [Read More]

Mangold Auction Service, LLC of Wickenburg recently won a national advertising award that will be presented during the awards ceremony at the National Auctioneers Association Conference and Show at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville in July. The award was for the “Best Online Catalog for Antiques.” More than 1300 entries were submitted [Read More]

(Pittsfield, Mass.) – A magnificent E. Howard & Co. #61 astronomical floor regulator, consigned from an estate in Baltimore and never before offered for sale, soared to $195,500 at a Spring Clock Auction held June 14 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. It was the second highest amount ever paid for a Howard astronomical [Read More]

SEATTLE, WA, – “Seattle to Ghana” is sponsoring an auction fundraiser and free concert Sunday, June 29, 2008 from 12-4 PM at Mercer Island’s beautiful Luther Burbank Park. Featured performances include Seattle Kokon Taiko, Lost Pedro, Rhythms of India, Background Noise, and more. The public is welcome to join this fun-filled day [Read More]

This is going to be a big sale and will include mares and stallions that were carefully selected throughout the years having excellent pedigrees, good conformation and beautiful color. Selling approximately 100 head of good quality APHA and AQHA horses all owned by J & J Paints and Quarter Horses, LLC. We [Read More]