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PARIS, France (Reuters) — A rare Tintin drawing by Belgian cartoonist Herge from the ‘Tintin in America’ edition will soon be up for grabs at a Paris auction, and is estimated to fetch between 600,000 and 700,000 euros. Following an unexpected record sale of an original Tintin comic book drawing last November, which fetched 1.55 million euros, the Paris auction house Artcurial is set to hold a new auction of the rare drawing on April […]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Jewelry worn by some of the most iconic stars of the Golden Age of Cinema are going under the hammer in November at Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles. However, the lots up for auction, which were worn by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Katherine Hepburn and Errol Flynn, are not your usual jewelry lots. “It’s very different from a conventional jewelry auction in the sense that […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — A dream collection of vintage cars and motorcycles was presented in Paris on Wednesday (February 8) ahead of a Bonhams auction, which coincides with Retromobile week, a fair that has made Paris a car collector’s capital. Over 100 cars, produced over a period ranging from the turn of the last century to the 1990s, were on display under the stately glassed roof of the Grand Palais. In 1901, the Grand Palais […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A rare collection of fairytales handwritten by J.K. Rowling as a gift to her “Harry Potter” publisher sold for nearly £370,000 at a UK auction on Tuesday. The copy of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” reached £368,750 ($467,000, 439,700 euros) in the sale at Sotheby’s auction house in London. The collection of fairytales was created within the “Harry Potter” series and helped the young wizard and his friends defeat […]
LYON, France (AFP) — A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton sold for more than one million euros at auction in the eastern French city of Lyon late Saturday, the Aguttes auction house said. The Allosaurus, a ferocious carnivore named Kan whose species went extinct some 135 million years ago, fetched 1.1 million euros ($1.2 million), Aguttes said. Discovered in 2013 in the Jurassic Era Morrison Formation in the western United States, the specimen is more than 7.5 […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters)– Western artwork by prominent artists such as Picasso, Monet, Warhol and others will be on sale at Christie’s first private sale exhibition in Asia. The exhibition named “The Loaded Brush”, will be the focus of Christie’s Hong Kong Autumn sales and is expected to fetch more than $250 million. The collection will be available for buyers on a first-come-first-serve basis and is the first of any such private sale organised by […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (Reuters) — The image of actress Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy in 1962 is historical and so is the skintight, sheer, flesh-colored dress she wore that night. The dress – known as “Happy Birthday Mr. President” – and more than a thousand other items connected to her will be auctioned off starting on Thursday (November 17) with a conservative price tag expected to be around […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The global economic slowdown combined with “selective demand” are pushing Christie’s to seek more realistic prices on their collections, directors of the auction house said Sunday. “This year the market is not at the same level as it was one year or two years ago. We are facing a more challenging market,” Guillaume Cerruti, Christie’s president for Europe, the Middle East, Russia and India, told journalists in Dubai. “To […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – The largest imperial seal used by Chinese emperor Kangxi went under the hammer in Hong Kong on Wednesday (April 6) and fetched $11.8 million. Sotheby’s said an Asian buyer won the bid and that it set the third highest price for any Chinese imperial seal sold at an auction. It added that the price also set a world auction record for a seal carved for Emperor Kangxi, who ruled China […]
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) – An important set of pistols that was gifted to Simón Bolívar from the Marquis de La-fayette is expected to fetch between $1.5 to 2.5 million (USD) when it goes on sale at Christie’s in New York. Christie’s specialist Becky MacGuire, said the lot is exquisite and so important because of its history. “We’re very excited to have these pistols they are such a rare treasure. They […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – The largest oval fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at an auction shattered Asia’s jewelry auction record in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5) evening. The internally flawless blue diamond, weighing at 10.10 carats, was sold to an anonymous phone bidder at US$31.8 million at Sotheby’s Spring Sales after a couple minutes of bidding. Before a 12 percent buyer’s premium was added, the diamond’s hammer price of US$28.38 […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – A painting by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian sold for nearly $35 million (24.54 million pounds) at an auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5), the most one of his works has ever fetched, underscoring strong demand for quality Chinese art despite an overall slowdown in the market. The two-meter (6.5 feet) long scroll inkbrush painting “Peach Blossom Spring” more than tripled its expected price at a spring Sotheby’s […]
