Auction News

Some fifty objects from the Francoise & Jean Corlay Collection of African Art will be offered for sale at Sotheby's Paris on June 18.

Louise Moillon: Still Life with Peaches on a Ledge. Estimate: 250,000-350,000/$324,000-454,000. Photo: Sotheby's. Sotheby's announced details of the forthcoming Sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings to be held in Paris on 27 June 2013.

Five cases of Chateau Latour 1982 from Bordeaux 's Pauillac region fetched 12,925 pounds each to lead bids at a Sotheby's wine sale in London this week as a double magnum of Chateau Petrus 1982 sold for 9,988 pounds.

The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the first cultural institution of Israel and one of the most important art and design academies in the world, concluded its U.S. traveling exhibition, Bezalel on Tour, in New York at G91 Loft in Soho.

On March 19, the charming 11-room townhouse at 159 East 64th Street came on the market for $14 million, joining its once-removed neighbor at 163 East 64th, which was asking $24.9 million at the time.

On 11 June 2013 the Books and Manuscripts sale at Sotheby's New York will include a particularly important First edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which once belonged to the critic and author Malcolm Cowley.

More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000. He passed.

The receipt is estimated to achieve 25,000-30,000 in Sotheby's London Music and Manuscripts Sale.

This image provided by Christie's auction house shows the painting "Blackwell's Island" by Edward Hopper.

Now, a New York auction house is offering a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece.

My mentor Al Frank referred often to the Miracle of Compounding as one does not have to earn an exorbitant annual return for money to grow handsomely over the long-term. By way of illustration, consider the recent auction of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby's. The third highest grossing lot was Georges Braque's Fauvist landscape Paysage la ... (more)

Hot on the heels of the landmark Amaya Collection, its first Evening Auction of Indian art, Sothebys has sourced an exceptional line-up of works - many fresh to the market and with outstanding provenances - for its Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale in London on 11th June.

Sports cars that the "baby boomer" generation grew up with -- including six Porsche 911s priced at as much as $644,000 -- will star in a Bonhams auction.

The first-edition copy of " Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K. Rowling , with annotations by the author, sold for $228,000 yesterday at Sotheby's in London.

Sotheby's director of the department of printed books and manuscripts Dr Philip Errington poses for photographers with a first edition copy of the first Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" containing annotations and illustrations by author J.K. Rowling, during a photocall organized for the media at the auction house's ... (more)

They currently have a $36.00 target price on the stock. The analysts noted that the move was a valuation call.

In trading on Monday, consumer services shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.7%. Helping drag down the group were shares of TEAM, Inc.

I was in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art today and while walking through the galleries mentally comparing a seemingly endless number of 16th century European masterpieces to the quality of work that's been selling lately at widely publicized auctions , I began thinking about what a bubble the art market has once again become and how great it ... (more)

Sotheby's director of the department of printed books and manuscripts Dr Philip Errington poses for photographers with a first edition copy of the first Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" containing annotations and illustrations by author J.K. Rowling, during a photocall organized for the media at the auction house's ... (more)

When the 50-acre estate with sweeping views of Cos Cob Harbor hit the market with a $190 million price tag Friday, its presence reverberated through the real estate world, taking the title of the nation's most expensive listing.