BILLINGS, MONT. (AP).- The only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in southeastern Montana sold at auction Friday for $2.2 million. The buyer was identified by the auction house So…
Sotheby’s Worldwide Team Dominates in Old Master Paintings at Auction for a Tenth Successive Year
LONDON.- Sotheby’s December series of Old Master & British Paintings sales in London concluded yesterday having realised an overall total of £27,991,125 / $44,040,725 / €33,454,918, which is comfortably within pre-sale expectations. Wednesda…
After Decades in Storage, George Armstrong Custer Flag Hits Auction at Sotheby’s Today
BILLINGS, MONT (AP).- Frayed, torn and maybe even a little bloodstained, the only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer’s “Last Stand” at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold for $54 when it first surfaced in the 1890s. On Friday, …
Sotheby’s Hong Kong to Sell the Andrew Lloyd Webber Wine Collection
HONG KONG.- Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the most prolific and best-known composers of our day. Famed for writing such musical greats as The Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Evita and Cats, his music is universally …
Sotheby’s Smashes World Record for Any Piece of English Furniture Sold at Auction
LONDON.- In the midst of the excitement surrounding the record price achieved for Audubon’s Birds of America yesterday, another world record was set in a different field. An exquisite serpentine-shaped Harrington Commode, dating to circa 1770 and …
Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings Realises $37,054,556
LONDON.- The undoubted highlight of tonight’s Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings at Sotheby’s in London was George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, one of the British master’s most ambitious and successful works and arguably h…
Sotheby’s Smashes World Record for Any Piece of English Furniture Sold at Auction
LONDON.- In the midst of the excitement surrounding the record price achieved for Audubon’s Birds of America yesterday, another world record was set in a different field. An exquisite serpentine-shaped Harrington Commode, dating to circa 1770 and …
Audubon’s "Birds of America" Fetches $10 Million Establishing a New World Record
LONDON (AP).- It’s quite a nest egg. John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, fetched more than $10 million at auction on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive published book. With its 43…
Roman Imperial Marble Bust Sells for a Staggering $23.8 Million at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, A Marble Portrait Bust of the Deified Antinous, Roman Imperial, Reign of Hadrian, Circa A.D. 130-138 sold for $23,826,500, many multiples of the high estimate (est. $2/3million).* The bust led the auction of An…
Sotheby’s to Exhibit 12 Masterpieces by Eduardo Chillida at Isleworth
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announce the Estate of Eduardo Chillida is bringing a selection of the late artist’s monumental works to market for the first time since the Spanish sculptor’s death in 2002. Twelve large-scale pieces conceived f…