OAKLAND, Calif. – Clars Auction Galleries will present two sales on subsequent days. Its Fine Collectors Auction will occur on Friday, May 12, and its Fine Asian Works of Art and Collectibles sale is set for Saturday May 13. Both sessions will begin at 9:30 am Pacific time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – The upright piano was the original home entertainment center. Before the rise of the television, the hi-fi stereo and the radio, family and friends gathered around a piano to while the evening away. The upright, or vertical design, which arrived in the early 1800s, effectively democratized the piano; it was more compact and less expensive than a grand piano, the case for which concealed a horizontally-oriented arrangement of strings that demanded far more floor space than most middle-class people could provide in their homes.
LOS ANGELES — John Moran Auctioneers will conduct an auction titled Property from the Thomas and Erika Jayne Girardi Residence, A Court Ordered Sale, on Wednesday, September 21 at noon Pacific time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Auctions at Showplace continues the winter 2022 auction season by offering 280 lots of fine art, jewelry and silver from New York City estates on Sunday, February 20. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Showplace in New York continues the winter 2022 auction season with an exciting grouping of 280 lots from New York City estates on January 9. The sale includes fine art, jewelry and silver along with an impressive collection of James Mont furniture from an Upper East Side residence furnished by Mont. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – The lyricist Irving Berlin once wrote a love song to his favorite musical instrument that included the lyrics, “I love a piano, I love a piano, I love to hear somebody play upon a piano …” He said the tune, dubbed I Love a Piano and debuted in the 1920 Broadway review Stop! Look! Listen!, was one of his best efforts. Berlin wasn’t singing about just any old piano, mind you, but a grand piano.
NEW YORK – Auctions at Showplace moves into the 2021 holiday season with an exciting grouping of 280 lots from New York City Metropolitan area estates on December 5. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
LOS ANGELES – Abell Auction Co. will present an exquisite array of fine art, antiques, 20th century design, and jewelry from prominent Southern California estates at its online-only quarterly auction on May 23 starting at 10 am Pacific time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.