Author: Charles S. Walter

NEW YORK (AFP) – Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sold at auction on Wednesday for a historic $1 billion, auction house Christie’s said. , with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt. Five paintings have entered the closed club of works of art […]

By Hieu Nhan November 9, 2022 | 9:54 p.m. PT French auction house Millon said it postponed the auction of a 19th-century Nguyen dynasty imperial seal following Vietnamese government interest in it. This is the second time it has postponed the 11kg gold seal auction. An announcement on its website read: “Due to the strong […]

A driving license belonging to Queen Elizabeth II fetched thousands of pounds after going under the hammer at a Colchester auction house. Reeman Dansie at Manyls Business Park in Wyncolls Road held his Royalty, Fine Art and Antiques auction on Tuesday, featuring a variety of historic items. The prizes included the late Majesty’s ‘very rare’ […]

A lightsaber, medals and art are among the auctioned items from the collection of the late General Colin L. Powell. The collection is auctioned on Wednesday, November 16 at 10 a.m. The Potomac Company The Alexandria Auction House will host an in-person and online preview which began Thursday, November 3. The family donates 100% of […]

Auctioneers at Auction House London recently pointed out that the number of bidders taking part in the auction has dropped. These changes would be the result of the cooling of the real estate market. According to the property’s auctioneers, a recent bid that took place was down by 300. Although the turnout was […]

A video mimicking the reporting style of a French broadcaster falsely claimed that a German auction house was holding a fundraiser for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in which patrons bid on Russian art to be ” publicly destroyed”. Images (here) bears the Euronews logo, as well as the same fonts and graphics used by the […]

An established collector who has sadly passed away has left his rare collection of action figures as a financial crutch for his wife and the vintage collection will go on sale next month at a Cheshire auction house. British Toy Auctions, based at Berkeley Court in Runcorn, will sell the ‘Andy Houldsworth Collection’, one of […]

Published: 01:33 PM October 27, 2022 The East Anglia auction house held its seventh auction of the year on Wednesday October 26, selling 49 lots and raising over £7.5million. There were 182 registered bidders and thousands of people watching the five-hour auction – including some from around the world. But auction surveyor Robert Hurst suggests […]

Gamers who were there for Diablo III’s launch in 2012 will probably remember the Auction House: an in-game mechanic where players could buy and sell their in-game items for real money. The feature was controversial from the start, but it didn’t completely disappear until 2014. Now we know why. During a panel at Portland Retro […]

Credit: Keenan “HIGz” Higgins / Reach Media Over the past two decades, Pharrell Williams has been one of the most stylish men in the entertainment industry. Whether it’s in music videos – The Neptunes, NERD and his solo work are all good examples – or simply getting his own bespoke pieces with some of the […]

Talk about a bad day at the office. A French auction house has fired one of its art experts after their valuation of a vase massively missed the mark. Last week, Osenat auctioned off a Chinese tianquiping vase for more than 7.7 million euros ($7.5 million) — 9.1 million euros ($8.8 million) after fees. The […]

Like most areas of the auto trade, the pandemic has reshaped a lot – but not everything has changed as drastically as car auctions. While many still operate solely online, most now combine physical and digital sales even more than before. Our winner, G3 Vehicle Auctions, has invested heavily in new premises and has worked […]

“Collecting is a journey,” says Frank Kilbourn, executive chairman of South Africa’s leading auction house, Strauss & Co. It usually starts with curiosity and, with research and good advice, that can also become a rewarding activity. Collecting and selling art is also a reciprocal relationship. Trust and an impeccable track record form the basis between […]

“Collecting is a journey,” says Frank Kilbourn, executive chairman of South Africa’s leading auction house, Strauss & Co. It usually starts with curiosity and, with research and good advice, that can also become a rewarding activity. Collecting and selling art is also a reciprocal relationship. Trust and an impeccable track record form the basis between […]

“Collecting is a journey,” says Frank Kilbourn, executive chairman of South Africa’s leading auction house, Strauss & Co. It usually starts with curiosity and, with research and good advice, that can also become a rewarding activity. Collecting and selling art is also a reciprocal relationship. Trust and an impeccable track record form the basis between […]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Anticipation is building on the track, as the fall meet kicks off this Friday and the Breeders’ Cup is just around the corner. Over the next four weekends, thousands of spectators will fill the stands, cheering on dozens of races. But what most don’t realize is that the backbone of […]

It’s not uncommon for celebrities to auction off their most iconic red carpet outfits and other valuables, but the mighty Pharrell takes things to the next level by creating his own auction house, JOOPITER , as a platform for its collectibles archive. “The idea behind JOOPITER is to embrace the energy that is released when […]

Emma Ward has left the Dickinson Gallery. Image: Dafydd Jones Laura Chester Sep 27, 2022 Moretti district Dickinson Gallery Managing Director Emma Ward and James Roundell left to set up a society with Old Masters specialist Fabrizio Moretti. They are joined by Dickinson […]

Fans wondering if there is an auction house in Madden Mobile 23? Madden Mobile 23, the mobile edition of the EA football franchise, is a must download for football fans who want to continue playing football online away from the console. There are many similarities and differences between the two versions of the game that […]

Phillips and Yongle are proud to announce a strategic partnership where the two leading auction houses will collaborate for the first time to host a series of auctions in Hong Kong and Beijing in the fall of 2022, offering significant works of 20th century and contemporary art and design to a global audience. The upcoming […]

This fall, after a 40-year tenure at Oak Park, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers packs its bags. The auction house merged with Rago/Wright and moved to Wright’s Chicago headquarters on Hubbard Street in the West Loop. As with Rago/Wright’s 2021 partnership with LA Modern Auctions, Toomey & Co. will retain its name, and the four houses […]

Growing up in Houston, 20-year-old Jalen Turner often heard from his parents, “Get used to being the only person in the room who looks like you. Jalen shares this from a conference room in Christie’s in Manhattan, where the young black man and rising junior from Morehouse College is interning in the public relations department. […]

The arrival of a new style of auction in the market has prompted Auction House – operating as Auction House Scotland in Scotland – to reaffirm its commitment to the traditional way of selling. Auction House Scotland managing director Mandi Cooper said a growing number of auction buyers and sellers have approached the company, looking […]

Published: 09:23 September 16, 2022 Auction House East Anglia held its sixth auction of the year on Wednesday September 14, selling 46 lots and raising over £9million with an 81% success rate. There were 185 registered bidders and hundreds of people watched the four-hour auction, including a seller from Sydney, Australia, and a buyer from […]

William MacDougall, who co-founded MacDougall Artwork Auctions in London, specializing in Russian, Ukrainian and Eastern European art, has died in Moscow, aged 67, it was announced last week. Founded in 2004, MacDougall’s was the first international auction house to have representatives in Moscow and Kyiv, and it competed with Sotheby’s and Christie’s to sell the […]

The Auction House is one of NBA 2K’s most important and fun gaming features, and the recent NBA 2K23 is no exception. However, as is the case with every new NBA 2K game, some things have changed from how they worked in previous entries. Take the Auction House as an example. You will certainly want […]

Original acrylic and silkscreen on canvas by pop art icon Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), titled Flowers (1965), 14 inches by 14 inches, artist signed and dated (est. $200,000 – $400,000) .Seattle MBA Auction House RENTON, Washington – An original acrylic by Andy Warhol and a silkscreen on canvas titled Flowers (1965), along with vibrant original […]

Caleb and Sarah Jones of Jones Auction House featured with a piece by Maud Lewis. (photo sent) A new auction house has opened in Saint John. Sibling gallerists Sarah and Caleb Jones, owners of Jones Gallery Contemporary Art + Projects, opened the Jones Auction House at their location on Prince William Street. The auction house […]

Did you know that America spends more money earning pennies than they are actually worth? It’s true. According Time magazinein 2009, it cost the United States Mint 1.4 cents to produce a single penny. Since then, it has become even more expensive, with some sources pegging the price at over 2 cents per penny. Needless […]

MAURICE Gibb’s Rolls-Royce sold for £98,000 with the auction house asking ‘how deep are your pockets’. The late Bee Gees star’s beloved Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible went under the hammer yesterday with Silverstone Auctions. 3 Maurice Gibb’s Rolls RoyceCredit: Reuters 3 Maurice Gibb (left) was one of the stars of the Bee GeesCredit: Getty 3 The […]

Basically, for a person, football memorabilia is just stuff. But for another, it’s so much more. The industry as a whole is undoubtedly a sleeping giant: Worth an estimated $4 billion, if sports collectibles were a club, they would be the fifth most valuable in the world. That’s why the recently launched Athletic Club Momento […]

A groundbreaking bug in the World of Warcraft Auction House is preventing players from buying or selling items in the MMORPG Blizzard. The game breaking issue has caused problems for many players who reported losing hundreds of thousands of in-game gold when the auction house automatically bought multiples of items, or vice versa , they […]

An auction house has again come under fire for selling ‘horrendous’ Nazi memorabilia. A WWII German Luftwaffe officers’ cap with the Nazi symbol, worth between £300 and £400, and a German Hitler Youth knife, worth between £240 and £280 , are set to go under the hammer in Amersham later today (Thursday, Aug 18). John […]

Solitary Adventurer A major Cumbrian stock house is launching its first online art sale due to buyer demand. Cockermouth-based Mitchells said the sales would complement its quarterly live antiques and fine art auctions. The first photo sale, which includes artwork between £50 and £300, will start at midday on Thursday August 18 and end on […]

Salvaged bikes giving new meaning to recycling. Surrounded by cabinets full of Glenmorangie, Rolex watches and second-hand dining sets, I feel like I’ve stepped into some illicit version of The Antiques Roadshow, or an ultra-hip speakeasy of the South London. In fact, I’m in Greasby’s auction house in Tooting – where everything from unclaimed luggage […]

Lark Mason Associates is a full service auction house specializing in fine and decorative fine art and is located on Mill Street in downtown New Braunfels. The company had an 1850 German farmhouse in New Braunfels that needed to be demolished moved to its location and built the auction house around the historic structure. “We […]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Reuters) – Elvis Presley experts and historians have long known of a collection of jewelry that the singer gave to his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Collectors and fans have spent decades searching for the items, thought to be lost. Thanks to Brigitte Kruse, Founder and CEO of GWS Auctions, who sourced and […]

A RARE crocodile fossil estimated to be 40 million years old is set to go up for auction at an auction in Scotland. The Eocene specimen will form part of a private collection of natural history objects to be auctioned at Glasgow auction house McTear’s next week. The collection of nearly 200 pieces was assembled […]

A Maryland auction house has sold Adolf Hitler’s watch for $1.1 million. An open letter from 34 Jewish leaders said the auction, which included other Nazi memorabilia, is a “societal indictment”. They said the auction trumped “memory, suffering and pain…for financial gain”. Loading Something is loading. A gold watch given to Adolf Hitler has sold […]

One of the world’s finest collections of James Bond toys is about to go on sale on Teesside. The collection, which is expected to fetch over £75,000, is the fusion of decades of collecting by one European enthusiast. Among the items up for auction at Vectis Auction House are board games, guns, briefcases, model cars […]

(JTA) — A Maryland auction house has defended the sale of what it says are personal items of Adolf Hitler, amid criticism from a European Jewish group. One of the most expensive items in the catalog for Friday’s auction by Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Maryland, is a candy dish estimated at at least […]

Published: 5:45 PM July 28, 2022 The East Anglia auction house held its fifth auction of the year on Wednesday July 27, selling 53 lots and raising nearly £9million, despite rising interest rates and inflation. “There were 189 registered bidders and over 1,000 people watched the four-and-a-half-hour auction,” said auction surveyor Robert Hurst. “Many lots […]

July 28—PETERBOROUGH — A local couple are bidding on their burgeoning auction business to take over a former auction house that was disbanded in the spring, starting with a silverware sale, of jewelry and works of art this weekend. Peterborough Auctions, co-founded by Molly Williams and Nick Prior of Peterborough, aims to take over from […]

For comic book fans and collectors of pop culture rarities, Hake auctions in York is currently holding a major auction, offering over 2,000 items to bid on. The auction started earlier this month and will run until July 26-27. Customers can place their bids over the phone or online. This is the 235th auction in […]

To let signs have been put up in a downtown Ashford unit previously used by a retro-themed bar after it announced its move. Rewind Bar, which opened on New Street in July 2020, has filled the auction house’s former site after a massive revamp. What was the bar like. Photo: Barry Goodwin But earlier this […]

When Christie’s Vice President Capera Ryan returned to Aspen last summer for the auction house’s seasonal residency, it seemed the rest of the art world caught on to the trend of popping up in Aspen. . But for Ryan, Christie’s appearance in Aspen was never really a trend initially. The vice president has maintained a […]

On Monday, Christie’s, Britain’s leading auction house founded 256 years ago in 1766, announced the launch of a new venture capital fund called Christie’s Ventures. According to the announcement, the company’s venture arm plans to focus on “[Web3] innovation, art-related financial products and solutions, and technologies that enable transparent consumption of art. Christie’s Ventures to […]

On Monday, Christie’s, Britain’s leading auction house founded 256 years ago in 1766, announced the launch of a new venture capital fund called Christie’s Ventures. According to the announcement, the company’s venture arm plans to focus on “[Web3] innovation, art-related financial products and solutions, and technologies that enable transparent consumption of art. Christie’s Ventures to […]

Phillips New York. The auction house will open a gallery in Los Angeles later this year. Laura Chester Jul 19, 2022 Auction sales rose 30% to $590 million in the first half and private sales rose 72% to $156 million. The numbers are […]

The latest hot tech fundraising round goes once, twice, and sold to the rather fancy guys with the wooden paddles. Well not exactly, but Christie’s is going to hang equity deals next to the Basquiats and Picassos in its collection. The revered 256-year-old British auction house announced on Monday that it was adding its own […]

A digital art auction house that had gained popularity as cryptocurrency prices soared is cutting 20% ​​of its staff as confidence in the market plummets. OpenSea has led the trade in so-called “non-fungible tokens,” or NFTs, digital collectibles that have been gobbled up by cryptocurrency enthusiasts to the tune of billions of pounds. NFT sales […]

Rendering of Phillips Los Angeles, located at 9041 Nemo StreetCourtesy Training Association Phillips Auction House expands West Coast presence With a new gallery space in Los Angeles Phillips LA will open in October 2022 in West Hollywood, with the region’s most experienced team of specialists LOS ANGELES – JULY 14, 2022 – After a record […]

The Hall on Mag is a new food hall preparing for an August opening in the location that once housed the auction house market in the Warehouse District. The new food hall will open with six vendors serving Southern, Mexican, Italian, Asian and Mediterranean dishes and more. It will offer both table service and walk-in […]

If the recent closure of the New Orleans auction house market has you hoping, or fearing, that the food hall trend is running out of steam, one Florida-based entrepreneur is betting otherwise. Jamal Wilson is set to open Hall on Mag, a food hall and event space taking over the former auction house market in […]

SINGAPORE, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Coinllectibles, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cosmos Group Holdings Inc. (OTC: COSG), is once again partnering with SPINK and Son Ltd. to marry its Fusion Digital Ownership Tokens (“DOT”) with a series of photographic images entitled “Live from Abbey Road”. These unique photographic images taken at Abbey Road Studios […]

South Canterbury’s last auction house has closed for the last time. Timaru’s The Auction owner Craig McConnell said it was a sign of the times and the business was no longer viable. The business, in Heaton St, held its final auction on Thursday. “It’s not something I wanted to happen, unfortunately we’re not a charity, […]

The real-world driving environment called for its first new 2023 Acura Integra. Someone was unfortunately going to destroy the new Integra sooner or later, and a month after the new 2023 Acura Integra went on sale, that day has arrived. The Columbus Ohio branch of Insurance Auto Auction recently listed a wrecked and burnt-out 2023 […]

PLEASE PLEASE: A selection of drawings from Madame Grès’ personal archives will go under the hammer in Paris on Thursday. The bulk of the pieces, dating from the 1930s to 1980s, were acquired in one batch by Philippe and Emmanuelle Harros, the husband and wife duo behind vintage specialist Quidam de Revel. French auction house […]