Expected top lots will include oil on canvas paintings by American artists George Rodrigue and Clementine Hunter, plus a selection of designer purses and other items in the couture category. NEW ORLEANS, La. – Original oil on canvas paintings by renowned Louisiana artists George Rodrigue (1944-2013) and Clementine Hunter (1886-1988), plus a [Read More]
ATLANTA, Ga. – Items from the spectacular Atlanta estate home known as White Oaks, featuring decorative arts from high-end retailers and world-class auctions, will be sold in a two-session auction on Saturday and Sunday, September 12th and 13th, by Ahlers & Ogletree, live in the gallery at 700 Miami Circle in Atlanta, [Read More]
RENO, Nev. – Native and general Americana will take center stage at Holabird Western Americana Collections’ huge, five-day auction planned for August 27th-31st, live in the gallery at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno, and online via several bidding platforms. The sale is officially titled The Great Americana Pow-Wow Auction. Start times all [Read More]
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Nye & Company Auctioneers’ upcoming Estate Treasures auction will be held just before the Labor Day holiday and offers a wide variety of fine and decorative arts. The auction is scheduled for Wednesday, September 2nd, online-only, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, [Read More]
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – A screen-print in colors by Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997), titled The Oval Office, a politically-themed work that is especially meaningful in today’s trying times, is an expected star lot in Neue Auctions’ online sale of modern art and design slated for Saturday, August 22nd. Previews will be held in [Read More]
CRANSTON, R.I. – A mixed media modern painting by American artist Margo Hoff (1910-2008), titled Football – Yugoslavia, a fine example from her long and storied career, is an expected highlight in an Estate Fine Art & Antiques Auction planned for Thursday, August 27th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, live in the [Read More]
Christie’s presents its annual Deep Impact: Lunar and Rare Meteorites sale in which dozens of striking extraterrestrial specimens will be offered for bidding from 12-25 August, 2020. With estimates ranging from $500 to $500,000. Leading the sale is a sample of the Moon in the shape of Moon (estimate: $300,000-500,000). Among the [Read More]
BYRON, Ga. – Preston Evans of Preston Opportunities is very good at many things – like collecting and being an auctioneer – but he’s terrible at retiring. “I tried to retire,” he said from his home in South Georgia, “and it worked until I was motivated to get back in the auction [Read More]
DOUGLASS, Kan. – Woody Auction will present the outstanding American Brilliant Cut Glass collection of William Buschling from Kansas City, Missouri in a two-day auction slated for Friday and Saturday, September 11th and 12th. The sale will be held in Woody Auction’s Auction Hall at 130 East Third Street in Douglass and [Read More]
A 1714 Mexican gold coin has sold for $312,000 at Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction on August 6th in Las Vegas. Known as the Presentation 8 Escudos, popular opinion is that this style was minted for Spanish dignitaries, most likely the king, as a symbol of Spain’s success in expanding into the New [Read More]
New York, NY – August 4, 2020 — Poster Auctions International’s (PAI) second sale of the year, on July 21st, finished at $1.3 million in sales. Auction LXXXI proved an ongoing passion for posters. Jack Rennert, President of PAI, said, “This auction was anything but typical. We’re in the midst of a [Read More]
WESTPORT, Conn. – A United States flag flown aboard the Apollo XIII space mission in 1970 with a NASA certificate signed by all three astronaut crew members, a manuscript document for the sale of G. Westinghouse & Company from George Westinghouse, Sr. to his son in 1871, and an albumen photograph of Abraham [Read More]
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – A simple but charming garden bird whirligig yard ornament standing about 5 feet 6 inches tall with a central post, attached to which were seven spinning branches, each with a bird on either end, proved irresistible to bidders in Neue Auctions’ online-only Summer Art & Antiques Auction held July [Read More]
ATLANTA, Ga. – Ahlers & Ogletree has two major auctions lined up for fall. The first is the sale of items from the Atlanta estate known as White Oaks, featuring decorative arts from high-end retailers and world-class auctions slated for September 12th and 13th. Then, an Autumn Fine Estates Auction, boasting items [Read More]
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Andrew Jones Auctions achieved phenomenal results across multiple categories in its Design for the Home & Garden auction held online, July 26th. The auction was 95 percent sold and grossed $1.6 million. The top lot was a spectacular still life oil on canvas painting by Nicolai Fechin [Read More]
CRANSTON, R.I. – Several weeks before Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers’ online-only Antiques & Fine Art auction on Thursday, July 23rd, a seller strolled into the gallery on a walk-in appraisal Tuesday holding what appeared to be a nice Chinese Qing Dynasty porcelain famille rose plaque with calligraphy. Bruneau slid it into the [Read More]
This past weekend, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., held a single-owner auction featuring The Del Posto Collection. 100% of the 3,422 lots were sold, bringing in $5.7 million against a pre-sale estimate of $3.0-4.5 million. Nearly 1,000 bidders from 4 continents and 16 countries participated in the sale via HDH’s industry-leading bidding [Read More]
Christie’s first-ever Asian Art Week Online totaled $8,952,625, establishing the highest total achieved for Asian art online-only sales with global participation from 22 countries. The top lot of the week was an important painting by Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009), one of his earliest explorations of the Falling Figure, which realized $975,000, achieving the [Read More]