WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A wealth of modern design, from red-hot Sam Francis original art to ultra-cool Paul Evans furniture and icy diamonds in platinum, will dominate the day at Palm Beach Modern’s (PBMA) Saturday, November 25 auction, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. The 500+ lots of art, designer furnishings and luxury goods represent the categories PBMA’s co-owners, Rico Baca and Wade Terwilliger, have identified as upward trending.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions will conduct their annual Thanksgiving Auction on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 25 and 26, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctionees.
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today a gift of more than $80 million from trustee Florence Irving and her late husband, Herbert Irving. This is the largest financial gift the museum has received in recent history.
CAIRO (AP) – Egypt opened an exhibition on Wednesday to display previously unseen treasures from King Tutankhamun’s famed tomb.
CRANSTON, R.I. – An oil on canvas landscape painting by the Scottish-born abstract modernist William Gear (1915-1997), titled Paysage, Mai 50 (May Landscape, 1950), is the expected headliner in a 436-lot Estate, Antiques, Fine & Decorative Art Auction planned for Saturday, Nov. 25, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, in their gallery at 63 Fourth Ave. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
MONROVIA, Calif. – John Moran Auctioneers’ October California & American Fine Art Auction was weighty with big names in American art such as Guy Rose, Ben Abril, Edgar Payne, Maynard Dixon, Phil Dike, which brought collectors out in droves. Absentee and Internet bidding for the Oct. 24 event was available through LiveAuctioneers.