OAKLAND, CA.- Highlighted by a world record-price for an Oriental carpet sold at auction and the remarkable interest in rug-based interior design projects, the year 2010 has pushed the level of interest in art-level Oriental rugs to unprecedented heigh…
Burgeoning Interest in Design, Collecting Push 19th Century Oriental Rugs To Forefront in Art World
OAKLAND, CA.- Highlighted by a world record-price for an Oriental carpet sold at auction and the remarkable interest in rug-based interior design projects, the year 2010 has pushed the level of interest in art-level Oriental rugs to unprecedented heigh…
Sotheby’s Sets New World Record for a Printed Book at Auction with Audubon’s Birds of America
LONDON.- Moments ago, in a crowded saleroom in Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries in London, a magnificent, rare, copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America sold for £7,321,250, establishing a new world record price for any printed book …
MacDougall’s Works on Paper Auction Set New World Records
LONDON.- MacDougall’s Works on Paper Auction raised over 1.1 m pounds on December 1st, setting new record prices. The top lots went several times higher than their pre-sale estimates. The cover lot 13, Nubian with a Waterpipe by Michail Zichy sold fou…
Japanese Medicine Container Makes World Record in an International Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- Bonhams announced that a 19th century roiro lacquer four-case inro by Shibata Zeshin has made the world record price for on inro in an international sale, selling for £162,000 in Part 1 of the Edward Wrangham collection, one of Europe’s…
Swann Galleries Sets World Record Price For Any Print by James A. M. Whistler Sold at Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ auction of Whistler and His Influence on Wednesday, October 27 offered approximately 150 prints by James A. M. Whistler and his followers. Nearly 20 of these set world auction records, including the sale’s top …
‘Who will Dare’ to Buy the Rarest Movie Poster in the World? The Bride of Frankenstein Poster for Sale
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- The tantalizing combination of rarity, quality and sheer artistry could all merge to create a world record price at public auction when the only known The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal, 1935) teaser one sheet Style E movie poste…
Pictures by Grandmother Who Picked Up Paintbrush in Her Sixties Offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- Following the Bonhams’ sale in June, where a picture by Helen Bradley was sold at a world record price, three pictures by the artist will be offered in the 20th Century British Art Sale held at Bonhams New Bond Street on the 17th Novembe…
‘Who will Dare’ to Buy the Rarest Movie Poster in the World? The Bride of Frankenstein Poster for Sale
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- The tantalizing combination of rarity, quality and sheer artistry could all merge to create a world record price at public auction when the only known The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal, 1935) teaser one sheet Style E movie poste…
Pictures by Grandmother Who Picked Up Paintbrush in Her Sixties Offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- Following the Bonhams’ sale in June, where a picture by Helen Bradley was sold at a world record price, three pictures by the artist will be offered in the 20th Century British Art Sale held at Bonhams New Bond Street on the 17th Novembe…