FLAT ROCK, N.C. – A huge two-day estates auction, comprising more than 1,600 lots, will be held Sept. 25-26 in the gallery of Richard D. Hatch & Associates. The undisputed headliner of the auction will be the contents of a wonderful old mansion in the area, undisturbed for decades and now offered fresh to the market. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.
THE HAGUE (AFP) – The Dutch government is to help acquire two rare Rembrandt paintings for some 160 million euros ($179 million) from a private collector and bring them back to the Netherlands, officials said Monday.
NEW YORK (AFP) – The first recording contract signed by the Beatles, which set the career course for the legendary band, was sold Saturday, Sept. 26 at a New York auction conducted by Heritage for $93,750, inclusive of 25% buyer’s premium. LiveAuctioneers provided Internet live-bidding services for the sale.
MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – Early American Pattern Glass is the focus of Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates’ three-day auction event Sept. 24-26. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding for the final day of the sale.
DALLAS – An impressive array of Continental furnishings led Heritage Auctions’ fall Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction to $1.7+ million, Sept. 12-13. Top lot honors were shared by a pair of Napoleon III marble and gilt bronze seven-light candelabra and a Lemerle Charpentier & Cie French gilt bronze figural mantel clock and thermometer, both of which sold for $25,000 – far exceeding pre-auction estimates. LiveAuctioneers provided absentee and Internet live bidding for the sale.
NEW YORK – Capo Auction Fine Art and Antiques, based in Long Island City, N.Y., is preparing for its fifth anniversary in October with the first auction of the fall season, to be held Saturday, September 26th at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
COLOGNE, Germany – Auction Team Breker’s 135th specialty auction on Saturday, Sept. 26, will encompass the 170-year history of photography and film in more than 700 lots. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – When he arrived in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, Eli Broad once said, he found himself in a city without a cultural center. So the billionaire arts patron decided to build one. On Sept. 20 that effort took a major step forward with the opening of The Broad, a shining, pop-art styled museum holding 2,000 works by arguably every important contemporary artist of the past 60 years.
ALTADENA, Calif. – John Moran Auctioneers will hold a decorative arts auction on Tuesday, Sept. 29, their last such event at the Pasadena Convention Center. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.