PHILADELPHIA – On Saturday, May 19, Kamelot Auctions will host their 13th annual Garden and Architectural Antiques sale. Here buyers can purchase one-of-a-kind garden and architectural pieces ranging from traditional to modern. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) – Colorado authorities say the $3 million painting by artist Christopher Wool slashed at an Aspen art gallery last year was vandalized by a British man whose father owned it.
NEW YORK – David Hockney’s Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica is the latest addition to the Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction. Featured in critically acclaimed retrospectives at the Tate Britain, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this large-scale oil painting is a landmark of Hockey’s career. Carrying a presale estimate of $20-$30 million, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica is poised to break the artist’s record when it makes its auction debut on May 16.
MILLSTADT, Ill. (AP) – Barbara Hoffmann owns a DVD copy of A League of Their Own, but has yet to watch it from start to finish.
She played two seasons for the South Bend Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which inspired the 1992 movie, but even at age 87 still has too much competitive vigor to relive it as a spectator.
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – Early trains, German tin windups, cast-iron banks and just about every other category of interest to today’s toy collectors gathered under one roof in suburban Cleveland on April 14 for Milestone Auctions’ 826-lot Spring Spectacular. Most of the consignments came directly from estates or private collections. With all forms of bidding available, there was strong overseas competition, with Internet and phone participants from no fewer than 10 countries. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
MOUNT KISCO N.Y. – Auction records for artists are routinely set at large auction houses in New York City, but occasionally an auction house in the suburbs is able to achieve a record price. Such was the case on April 18 when the Benefit Shop Foundation got to do exactly that in its monthly sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.