L.S. Lowry’s painting of the village that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights will go under the hammer on 1st July at Bonhams New Bond Street Sale of 20th Century British Art estimated at up to £180,000.
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Records broken at Tintin auction
Tintin mania swept a Belgian auction house on Sunday with almost 600 lots associated with Herge, creator of the famous cartoon reporter, breaking national and world sales records, an expert said. The sale in Namur, southern Belgium, dominated by five large hand-drawn pages of original cartoon strips, raised 1,172,000 euros […]
Outstanding Rock ‘N’ Roll Memorabilia featuring Beatles, Buddy Holly, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix And More
Memorabilia from some of the greatest acts in rock ‘n’ roll history – the Beatles, Buddy Holly, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and others – will be sold at an auction slated for Sunday, Mar. 1, by Philip Weiss Auctions. The Buddy Holly items are timely, as the 50th anniversary of the singer’s death in a tragic plane crash in 1959 (known as “the day the music died”) is February 9th.
Auction Record Price for Edgar Degas Sculpture at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby’s in London saw 22 works realise a total of £32,564,300 ($46,238,050). The sale was 75.9% sold by lot and 67.7% sold by value and it saw two works command prices in excess of £5 million, and six for more than £1 million.
Roy Rogers Collection for Auction
An outstanding Roy Rogers collection will be auctioned on January 10. The collection is owned by James and Nora Hood from Taneytown, Maryland. The Hoods have collected Roy Rogers items for many years.
Spitfire Auctioned in New Zealand
A 1945 Supermarine Spitfire aircraft was sold for a record price of over $3 million NZD, the highlight of Bonhams and Goodman’s highly anticipated inaugural New Zealand sale of Collectors’ Cars and Aircraft.
James Garner Competition Corvette to be Auctioned
Bonhams & Butterfields is proud to announce that the ex-James Garner/American International Racing 1968 Corvette L88 will be added to its epic roster of cars to be offered at their seminal Quail Lodge auction, to be held August 15th in Carmel, California.
Steve McQueen’s Le Mans Porsche To Be Auctioned
the Monterey Peninsula Car Week held each August.
Sir Elton John’s Grand Pianos For Sale at Bonhams
A beautiful Steinway Grand piano that Elton John played for many rehearsals and celebrity singalongs at his Windsor home will be auctioned in the Entertainment sale at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on Wednesday 18 June.
Leading Publisher Richard Dennis Curates a Sale of British Ceramics at Bonhams
One of the UK’s leading independent publishers of art books, Richard Dennis O.B.E will sell part of his private collection of ceramics at Bonhams in New Bond Street on Wednesday 12 March 2008. Dennis’ magnificent collection encompasses pottery by established and emerging designers from the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods through to the modern day.
