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Bid Barometer
13 November 2017ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period November 2-8, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.
The revolution may well be televised
13 November 2017A brief letter of 1864 in which Ulysses S Grant agrees to General William T Sherman’s ‘March to the Sea’, a bold plan to destroy Atlanta, then march across Georgia to Savannah or Charleston during the American Civil War, sold for $100,000 (£75,755) on October 19, at Heritage Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Dallas.
Horse whispers and festive song at Hansons
13 November 2017Not many new faces at salerooms can include among their experience “a trained horse whisperer”.
Whalebone cane strolls to £17,000
13 November 2017A mid-19th century scrimshaw carved whalebone walking cane sold for a house record of £17,000 (plus 18% buyer’s premium) at East Bristol Auctions on November 9.
Holme truths about costly heraldic work
13 November 2017Earlier works in an October 18 sale held by Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) included a scarce 1688 first of Randle Holme’s The Academy of Armory, or a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, an heraldic work by the third member of a distinguished Chester family of heraldic painters and genealogists to bear that name. It made £1200.
Read all about it: Catherine Southon saleroom fifth anniversary
13 November 2017In business for 20-plus years, former Sotheby’s auctioneer Catherine Southon, founder of the eponymous auction house and antiques TV presenter, takes nothing for granted.
Turner prize is revived saleroom in the Borders
13 November 2017It’s a new name and a new start for a Jedburgh saleroom this autumn.
Auction of Victoria Cross at Spink marks Passchendaele centenary
13 November 2017“I died in hell – they called it Passchendaele,” Siegfried Sassoon famously wrote of the First World War carnage which ended in November 1917.
Keeping it Surreal in Dorset
13 November 2017A collection of market-fresh pictures with a distinctive Surrealist streak found favour with buyers at Charterhouse (21% buyer’s premium) in Dorset.
Early Brits Fitz the bill at 25 Blythe Road auction
13 November 2017Fitzroy Square to the north of central London was a key location in early 20th century British art. Virginia Woolf lived here for several years, a few doors down from Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler also had a studio.
Cole carriage clock strikes a chord in Bath auction
13 November 2017“No one can rival Thomas Cole for engraving in the 19th century,” said director Jamie South after this exhibition-quality carriage clock sold for £26,000 (plus 20% premium) at Gardiner Houlgate in Horsham, Bath, on October 25. It went to an American buyer towards the top end of the estimate.
French design fits the zeitgeist at Paris auction
13 November 2017A sale devoted to pieces by French designers and held in the French capital proved to be a winning formula for Sotheby’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) latest auction in this category on October 31.
An ice price in Yorkshire auction
13 November 2017British and Irish watercolours piqued the interest of bidders at Tennants’ (18.5% buyer’s premium) Country House sale in Leyburn on October 14.
New editions at Forum Auctions
13 November 2017Forum Auctions has expanded its modern and contemporary prints and editions department with two new appointments.
Cecil Kennedy shows petal power
13 November 2017This archetypal still-life by Cecil Kennedy (1905-97) topped Halls’ (20% buyer’s premium) £300,000 auction on October 18.
Nobel gold medal awarded to British scientist Cyril Hinshelwood up at auction in California
13 November 2017A Nobel prize-winner’s gold medal awarded to a British scientist is to go under the hammer in Hollywood as part of Julien’s Auctions sale on November 17.
Rediscovered Sebastien Bourdon oil painting features in Marseille sale
13 November 2017A newly discovered, hitherto unpublished painting by the French master Sebastien Bourdon is coming up for auction in Marseille at Maison R&C on November 16.
Bonhams sits comfortably in Asian art auction series
13 November 2017Bonhams capitalised on the strong market for classical Chinese furniture to set the two highest prices of the London Asian art auction series.
Comic book characters raise a chuckle in Ohio
13 November 2017A 700-lot sale devoted entirely to one single-owner collection of comic book character artefacts is to be offered on November 18 by Milestone Auctions of Willoughby, Ohio.
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