Bonhams’ forthcoming Sale of Old Master Paintings holds a wealth of fine and important artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries. The sale will take place at 101 New Bond Street, London, on 6 December 2006.
Acquired in the 1920s by the current owner’s family, Jan Lievens’s Portrait of a Young Girl in profile and Gerard […]
A half-bottle of Scotch whisky thought to be about 150 years old sold for 14,750 pounds ($28,700) at auction in London, beating the top presale estimate of 10,000 pounds by almost 50 percent.
The Glenavon Special Liqueur Whisky, bottled on Speyside in northeast Scotland some time between 1851 and 1858, may be the oldest Scotch whisky […]
A rare LS Lowry painting has been sold at auction for £530,000 - safeguarding one of Britain’s premier art collections in the process.
Glasgow Docks, which was painted by the Manchester-born artist in 1947, went under the hammer in Edinburgh.
Auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull, who had been expecting it to fetch around £300,000, now believe it has […]
Ten paintings by Pink Floyd founder member Syd Barrett have raised more than £55,000 at auction.
A stool decorated by Barrett fetched £4,400, and a collection of his art reference books a further £4,000.
The paintings were among the contents of Barrett’s home in Cambridge being auctioned following his death in July at the age of 60.
The […]
Sotheby’s raised 20.2 million pounds ($39.3 million) from a sale of Russian art in London yesterday, as buyers snapped up paintings, porcelain and Faberge works including an imperial snuffbox.
The proceeds fell in the middle of Sotheby’s presale estimate of between 16.5 million pounds and 25 million pounds. About 68 percent of 438 lots were sold, […]
Defence chiefs have banned troops from using eBay as it is distracting them from their duties.
Military IT experts found that soldiers who had returned from overseas duty were busy spending their £2,240 taxfree bonuses on the auction website to buy Christmas presents.
An MoD spokesman said the ban applied to all its computers. One soldier said: […]
The painting “A Little Dressmaker” by Alexei Kharlamov (1840-1925), a Russian artist of the late 19th century has been sold by the Bonhams auction house for 610 thousand GBP (1 million and 160 thousand USD). None of Kharlamov’s paintings had ever been sold at such a high price before.
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