Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-28 20:31:00)
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Bonhams has announced an exciting line-up of works for its Impressionist and Modern Art sale to be held at New Bond Street on Thursday 3 December. Fighting for position as the sale’s most valuable lot is ‘Gladiatori nell’arena’ by
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). An oil on canvas dated 1927, the painting is from Leonce Rosenberg’s [...]
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A rediscovered first edition of Charles Darwins (1809-1882) ‘On the
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ sold at Christies in London for £103,250 / $170,569 / 114,298 (estimate: £40,000 to £60,000).Recently rediscovered sitting on a bookcase in the guest bathroom of the vendors house, it had been bought for only a few [...]
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The original armature used to film the final, climactic scenes of the 1933 epic King Kong sold today at Christies
South Kensington for £121,250 / $200,305 / 134,224. Measuring 22 inches in height, the metal armature was used in the film to show the giant ape as he terrorized New York and as he scaled [...]
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A Russian (Soviet Union) first degree Order of Glory Medal awarded in 1943 is going under the hammer in November at Birmingham based auctioneers Fellows & Sons. The Order of Glory, which was modelled closely upon the Tsarist Cross of St. George, had three degrees. A person initially received
the third degree, and would subsequently [...]
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Bonhams & Goodmans offering of 67 lots on 24 November 2009 sold very well with a total of $2,057,400 including Buyers Premium or 71.3% by value and 70% by volume.The biggest seller on the night was Charles Blackmans The Game of Chess 1956 which knocked down for $720,000 IBP. An historically important collection of [...]
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Started 6 days, 14 hours ago (2009-11-30 10:53:00)
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An exceptional and singular 1860 John C. Breckenridge portrait banner, perhaps the most important American political textile to appear at auction, lived up to its top billing as it soared to a record final price of $95,600 to lead the day at
Heritage Auctions on Nov. 17.Auction totals have surpassed the $800,000 mark (all prices [...]
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Bonhams New York is pleased to present the Arnold Smoller Collection of Contemporary Livres d’Artiste. A wonderfully astute and varied
assemblage of nearly 200 volumes, the collection spans several decades of American and international art. It includes experimental works made of such surprising materials as lead, hair, plastics, and rubber. The works range in date [...]
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Started 4 days, 19 hours ago (2009-12-02 05:19:00)
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Ariotek was created in 2009 from the amalgamation of three very successful web based companies. All three companies have been privately owned and profitable since creation, the oldest of which started trading in early 2001.Ariotek now host thousands of web sites, all of which are hosted on Ariotek’s
state of the art servers housed [...]
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Started 3 days, 22 hours ago (2009-12-03 02:03:00)
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Bonhams final wine sale of 2009 will take place at 101
New Bond Street on 3rd December. As always the sale contains a wide spectrum of different wine styles at a broad range of prices. The sale kicks off with Champagne, including three bottles of Krug, Clos du Mesnil 1979 (£4000-5000) and two methuselahs of [...]
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