Art sales: They’re laughing in the shires

Colin Gleadell on provincial salerooms If you thought a country saleroom was just a sleepy old place content to knock out goods and chattels for almost any price, the odds are that you’d be wrong. As the sleepier ones go out of business, Britain’s liveliest provincial auctioneers are busy building brands and shaping up aggressively … Read more

Auctioneers Report Record Russian Sales

MOSCOW – The world’s top two auction houses, Christie’s International and Sotheby’s, profited from an expanding Russian economy with its growing ranks of newly rich collectors to score a record year in Russian art sales. Their combined 2007 global Russian sales totaled $324.9 million, up 45 percent from a total of $223.6 million in 2006. … Read more

Bonhams holds first ME auction

Bonhams, the international fine art auction house established in the UK since 1793, will hold its first Middle East auction sale in Dubai this March featuring some works from some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary Arab, Iranian, Indian and Pakistani art … Read full story

Kaminski Kicks off 2008 with New Year Estates Auction

(Beverly, MA) – Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces its New Year’s Estates Auction. The auction, Kaminski’s first in 2008, includes consignments from multiple estates spanning Massachusetts to the West Coast. The auction commences at 11am on Sunday, January 27 at the Sheraton Colonial Ballroom in Lynnfield with … Read more

Bonhams holds first Middle East auction

Bonhams, the international fine art auction house established in the UK since 1793, will hold its first Middle East auction sale in Dubai this March featuring some works from some of the biggest names in modern … Read full story