CHICAGO, IL.- With a saleroom packed full of international buyers, the majority from mainland China, almost 600 bidders online and the auctioneers’ book full of absentee bids, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers sale which carried a pre-sale median estimat…
Auctioneer Noel Barrett Promises "Something for Everyone" in His May 21 Sale
NEW HOPE, PA.- As its title promises, Noel Barrett’s May 21 auction has “something for everyone” within its 714-lots, from fresh-to-market holiday items and antique games to coveted clockwork toys and salesmen’s samples. The Saturda…
Auctioneer Noel Barrett Promises "Something for Everyone" in His May 21 Sale
NEW HOPE, PA.- As its title promises, Noel Barrett’s May 21 auction has “something for everyone” within its 714-lots, from fresh-to-market holiday items and antique games to coveted clockwork toys and salesmen’s samples. The Saturda…
Tony Duquette’s Talismans of Power is 100% Sold and Brngs More than $350,000
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields offered the Tony Duquette “Talismans of Power” auction, which followed the firm’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts, on April 18, 2011. The energy in the full Los Angeles saleroom was electric as the auction…
Auctioneer Don Presley’s May 7-8 Sale Includes Select Offerings From California Estates
ORANGE, CA.- There probably isn’t a stretch of highway between Beverly Hills and Newport Beach that auctioneer Don Presley doesn’t know. That’s his turf, and when the owners of fine estates in those well-heeled communities decide to part…
Auctioneer Don Presley’s May 7-8 Sale Includes Select Offerings From California Estates
ORANGE, CA.- There probably isn’t a stretch of highway between Beverly Hills and Newport Beach that auctioneer Don Presley doesn’t know. That’s his turf, and when the owners of fine estates in those well-heeled communities decide to part…
Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Spectacular Results from the New York Photographs Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s Photographs sale at 450 Park Avenue, comprising 260 lots, sold 94.5% by value and 90.4% by lot totaling $5,802,250 (including premium). Phillips de Pury & Company finalizes the New York Photographs week …
Christie’s Backs Stubbs to Join Old Masters Elite, Painting Expected to Fetch $33 Million
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s will offer a George Stubbs horse painting for sale in London on July 5 and expects it to make more than 20 million pounds ($33 million), potentially putting it in the Old Masters auction elite. “Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath…
Christie’s Backs Stubbs to Join Old Masters Elite, Painting Expected to Fetch $33 Million
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s will offer a George Stubbs horse painting for sale in London on July 5 and expects it to make more than 20 million pounds ($33 million), potentially putting it in the Old Masters auction elite. “Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath…
Christie’s in London to Sell Portrait by British Artist Lucian Freud, Eye on Russian Market
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s auctioneers will offer a portrait by Lucian Freud which it described as “seminal” in the career of the British artist at a sale in London on June 28. “Woman Smiling,” painted in 1958/9, is the only single portrait Freud ma…