Christie's sale of "Important Silver & Objects of Vertu" totaled $6,077,350 - the highest total ever for a New York various-owner silver sale - and was 96% sold by lot, 99% sold by value.
The flight log kept by navigator Dutch Van Kirk onboard the Enola Gay during its fateful August 1945 flight to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan sold for $358,500 in a public auction
Last night in our Beverly Hills saleroom, Christie's Los Angeles held its Fall 2007 California, Western and American Art auction, and in the process debuted Christie's LIVE™ on the West coast of the U
This morning's sale at Christie's of Nineteenth Century Meissen: The Collection of Dr. W.A. Criswell, sold to benefit Criswell College realized $926,450. With no reserves and tax-exempt status, this
Private bidding prevailed in today’s sale of Orientalists and 19th Century European Art. The Orientalist section delivered top prices and several new world auctions records.
At Sotheby’s the sale of 19th Century European Art achieved a total of $24,169,288. Works by French academic painter William Bouguereau and Gustave Courbet sold particularly well.
Tonight’s sale of 20th Century Italian Art, an annual sale held at Sotheby’s London since 1999, included works by some of the key Italian artists of the 20th century.
Top Lot Sold at Auction this Week: Francis Bacon’s Rent Cheque Painting Study from the Human Body, Man Turning on the Light Sold for £8,084,500 / $16,371,113 / €11,528,497
Christie’s is pleased to announce the sale of a
distinguished collection of rare works, A Mary Cassatt Collection : Prints and Drawings from the Descendants of Robert Hartshorne
