San Rafael Auction Gallery – Nautical and Maritime Consignments Wanted
Friday, October 7th, 2011San Raphael Auction Gallery i now accepting consignments for their November 12th Nautical & Maritime Antiques Auction
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Sotheby’s London – Italian Identity – an Important Private Collection Video
Friday, October 7th, 2011Join Sotheby’s specialists for an exclusive insight into the highlights of Italian Identity – an Important Private Collection.
Sotheby’s London – Contemporary Art Evening Auction Videos
Friday, October 7th, 2011Oliver Barker introduces the Contemporary Art Evening Auction which will be held in London October 13th.
Phillips de Pury – Evening Editions
Friday, October 7th, 2011The Editions department at Phillips de Pury & Company offers prints and objects produced in an edition spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Modern and Contemporary printmakers come together under one artistically integrated catalogue several times a year. Our sophisticated curation of many different styles of works are cogently marketed through our dynamic and scholarly catalogue presentation.
Fellows – Antique & Modern Jewellery
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Sotheby’s London – Timing is Everything: Fine Watches Auction
Thursday, October 6th, 2011The Fine Watches sale on the 13th December has a wide selection of collectable timepieces including early pocket watches as well as modern wristwatches.
Please contact one of our specialists for further information.
Sotheby’s London – 6 Weeks Until the Victorian & Edwardian Art Auction
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Following the success of ‘The Cult of Beauty’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sotheby’s is delighted to be offering an important example of the work of the Aesthetic Movement’s most sophisticated exponents, Albert Joseph Moore. Waiting to Cross depicts three beautiful women in Grecian robes standing at a riverbank, one of whom glances over her shoulder at the viewer.
The winter sale also offers a striking painting by Edmund Blair Leighton, one of the finest painters of medieval romance. His Stitching the Standard shows a maiden with super-model looks sitting on the battlements of a tower. The Newlyn School is well represented in the sale, with two significant works by Walter Langley and a varied group of watercolours, oil paintings and a bronze by Henry Scott Tuke. Tuke’s Return from Fishing captures the artist’s love of Cornwall, its people and its traditions in a large painting that was owned by the famous Indian cricketer Ranjitsighi.
The sale also includes a wide variety of paintings, drawings and watercolours with pictures by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Archibald Thorburn, John William Godward, Arthur Elsley and William James Blacklock.
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers – Property from The Ralph Esmerian Collection boosts auction total to $3.17 million
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Sotheby’s Paris – Orfèvrerie Européenne, Boîtes en Or et Objets de Vitrine – Important European Silver and Objects of Vertu
Thursday, October 6th, 2011The Paris important European Silver and Objects of Vertu sale will include around 50 lots of gold boxes and objects of Vertu and 250 lots of European Silver from 16th to 20th centuries.
The Vertu section will feature a nice selection of fans such as “L’Allégorie de l’Amour”, with Princess Marie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen monogram by Mr Alexandre, Paris, circa 1880, as well as some Viennese enamelled and crystal silver-mounted pieces and gold boxes.
The silver section includes notable pieces from all over Europe. From Spain there are two 17th century salt-cellars. From France a coffee-pot by Pierre Germain, a pair of three-light candelabras by Pierre-Louis Goguelye, Paris, 1785 and a large Odiot silver-gilt soup tureen embossed with the coat of arms of Prince Borghese. Pieces from Germany include beakers and tankards and from Belgium there is a pair of rare large candlesticks by Philippus Moermans of Antwerp, 1674-1675. Italy is represented by a rare and large holy water-stoup made in Genoa circa 1580, but you will also find pieces from Russia, Austria, Hungary and South America. There is also a nice selection of 19th and 20th century pieces such as tea and coffee sets, jardinière, claret jugs and a wide selection of silver table services.
Sotheby’s – The BAT Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection – Part Three – Sale Results
Thursday, October 6th, 2011This collection started in 1960 as an experiment to enliven the Turmac Tobacco factory halls, and grew to become one of Europe’s most renowned corporate art collections brought together by some of the most distinguished Dutch curators.
Sale Results now online
