NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Wine auctions in 2010 brought an overall global total of US$88,270,602; this is more than double last year’s figure and the highest in the company’s forty years of wine auctions. The year once again saw extraordi…
Haslinger Collection of Rare Heuer Watches Sell for Record Prices at Bonhams
LONDON.- The Haslinger Collection of fine and rare Heuer watches sold at Bonhams (15.12.10) for £475,764. The sale of this collection, assembled by Arno Haslinger, was held partnership with TAG Heuer to help celebrate its 150th Anniversary. The salero…
A Group of Masterpieces from the Besselaar Collection are Sold for $2.8 Million
AMSTERDAM.- On Dec. 13th at Sotheby’s Amsterdam, during the sale of 19th Century European Paintings, a group of exceptional masterpieces from the Besselaar Collection, are sold for a total of €2.1 million/ £1.8 million/ $2.8 million, a figur…
A Group of Masterpieces from the Besselaar Collection are Sold for $2.8 Million
AMSTERDAM.- On Dec. 13th at Sotheby’s Amsterdam, during the sale of 19th Century European Paintings, a group of exceptional masterpieces from the Besselaar Collection, are sold for a total of €2.1 million/ £1.8 million/ $2.8 million, a figur…
Bonhams Sell 38 Pieces of Fine Meissen Porcelain that Survived the 1945 Dresden Bombing for £500,000
LONDON.- Rare surviving items from the world-famous collection of Meissen porcelain assembled by Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer from the late nineteenth century, which survived Nazi looting and the 1945 bombing of Dresden, were auctioned at Bonhams…
Bonhams Sell 38 Pieces of Fine Meissen Porcelain that Survived the 1945 Dresden Bombing for £500,000
LONDON.- Rare surviving items from the world-famous collection of Meissen porcelain assembled by Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer from the late nineteenth century, which survived Nazi looting and the 1945 bombing of Dresden, were auctioned at Bonhams…
Antik A.S. Auction House Sets World Record Prices for Turkish Calligraphy and Paintings
ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S. the leading Turkish Auction house, announced that the sale of Turkish Paintings Calligraphy and Ottoman Arts in Istanbul achieved triumphant results and made 8 million Turkish Lira / US$ 5.3 million. The top lot of the sale, the m…
Sotheby’s New York and London November Sales of Russian Art Realise $30.4 Million
LONDON.- The top-selling lot of the November Sales of Russian Art in London was Alexander Yakovlev’s 1926 oil on canvas The Kuli-Kuta Dance, Niamey, which sold for the within-estimate sum of £937,250 (Est. £800,000-1,000,000**). Two new artist r…
Sotheby’s New York and London November Sales of Russian Art Realise $30.4 Million
LONDON.- The top-selling lot of the November Sales of Russian Art in London was Alexander Yakovlev’s 1926 oil on canvas The Kuli-Kuta Dance, Niamey, which sold for the within-estimate sum of £937,250 (Est. £800,000-1,000,000**). Two new artist r…
Sotheby’s Auction The Great Britain Philatelic Collections of Lady Mairi Bury Brings £3 Million
LONDON.- Sotheby’s three-day auction of The Great Britain Philatelic Collections of Lady Mairi Bury concluded today, bringing the exceptionally strong total of £3,045,924, significantly exceeding pre-sale expectations of £2.6million. The auction esta…