An oil painting featuring Madonna and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie naked is to go under the hammer. The 2005 work titled Madonna And Guy, one of several nudes of the star by Peter Howson, is expected to fetch up to £22,00 when it goes on sale at McTear’s in Glasgow next Saturday.
“There is [...]

A gem-like blue vase, that has survived intact for five centuries and was once owned by the Rothschild family, is estimated to sell for around £220,000 at Bonhams next sale of Fine British and European Glass on 3rd June.
Known as the Field Cup, it is a highly important Venetian enamelled and gilt blue-tinted standing bowl [...]

Sotheby’s annual sale of Indian Art in London will this year take place on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 and it will bring to the market a fine assortment of works by leading Modern and Contemporary Indian artists as well as rare and important Indian Miniatures. A significant number of the works on offer have exemplary [...]

Bonhams Greek sale took £3.6million and set 17 new world records in London on 19.5.2009.
Top result for the sale was lot 29, Dawn by Constanitinos Parthenis (1878-1967) which made £356,000. Second highest lot was 75, Studio with easel by Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika (1906-1994) which sold for £322,400 against a pre sale estimate of £100,000 to £150,000.
Following [...]

A MAGNIFICENT and truly Scottish gun, that has been engraved to look like a Crocodile will return to its country of origin to be offered in Gavin Gardiner’s annual flagship auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns at the world-famous Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland on Monday, August 24, 2009. The sale will start [...]

Bonhams first dedicated sale of Middle Eastern and South Asian Art to be held outside of Dubai features works of art by artists from no fewer than 13 countries. It takes place in Bonhams main saleroom in New Bond Street, London on 3rd June.
Amongst the Indian artists featured in the sale, nine works by [...]

Sotheby’s London has announced that on Monday, June 8, 2009, as part of its Russian Art Evening auction, it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered oil on canvas painting, Nanny with Children by acclaimed Russian artist Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (1883-1939), signed in Cyrillic and dated 1912. The painting, which has been considered lost for [...]

Following the success of last year’s Posters sales at Bloomsbury Auctions, a private French collector has consigned a glorious group of 25 posters from the 1920s and 30s designed by the legendary Roger Broder. Posters are the first part of Bloomsbury’s Maps and Fine Books sale on 28th-29th May. The posters on offer span the [...]

Christie’s upcoming sale Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes offers collectors an incredible opportunity to purchase a unique treasure with exceptional provenance, on sale for the first time in nearly two centuries: a Meissen gold-mounted circular snuff-box and cover, circa 1738 (estimate: £25,000-40,000).
Snuff-taking began as an elite pastime during the [...]

The Charterhouse auction of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia at The Bristol Classic Car Show in The Royal Bath and West Showground on Sunday 3rd May was a near sell out with an impressive total of over £200,000.
Top lot of the day had to be shared between two cars from the same owner at [...]

A splendid Ming dynasty jar, a rare survivor from a vanished era of Imperial Chinese prestige, was sold on 14.5.09 for £1,117,600 at Bonhams New Bond Street.
Created in the reign of the Emperor Jiajing (AD1522-66), and estimated to sell for up to £250,000, the elegant understated blue and white jar with highlighted goldfish, came from [...]

A Bowie knife with a presentation inscription from Buffalo Bill, one of America’s most colourful characters from the Wild West, is coming up for auction by Charterhouse in Sherborne, in their sale of militaria and collectors items on Friday 26th June.
“The knife was bought by the vendor from a small saleroom in Taunton in [...]

The Bonhams sale will feature 145 lots from foremost artists such Constantino Volanakis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Spyros Vassilou, Nikos Lytras, Costat Coulendianos, Nikos Kessanlis and Theofrastos.
One of the largest and finest works by Parthenis ever to come to auction is a particular highlight of the sale. The lot is typical of the period in its devotion [...]

A collection of medals awarded to a 1920s football player for his achievements both on and off the pitch looks set to be the star lot at Staffordshire auction house Cuttlestones’ May 29th Fine Art sale.
Charlie Wilson was born in the Derbyshire town of Atherstone in 1895 and, in addition to making his mark on [...]

A PAIR of extremely impressive and historically important lead Finials by John van Nost the Elder, one of the greatest producers of lead sculptures in the early 18th century, will be offered for sale in the auction of Garden Statuary, Architectural Items and Decorative Fossils at Summers Place Auctions (In association with Sotheby’s), which will [...]