On May 9, Auction house Sotheby’s will put a portrait of Elvis Presley done by Andy Warhol up for bid. An Andy Warhol portrait of Elvis Presley depicted as a cowboy is expected to sell for between $30 million and $50 million at Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale. The DOUBLE ELVIS painting which is one of the [...]
1 May 2011 
Spring Art Auctions Begin This Week
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The major spring art auctions begin this week and will feature many instantly recognizable works by artists like Warhol, Koons and Picasso. The rapidly rebounding art market faces a critical test next week in New York, when auction houses will try to sell a mix of Impressionist, modern and contemporary works valued at nearly $1 [...]
7 March 2011 
Richard Nixon’s Rare Gold-Inlaid Browning Automatic Shotgun Up For Auction
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Richard Nixon’s Gold-inlaid Browning 12-gauge Automatic Shotgun All collectors of firearms and guns would be interested to see a rare Browning shotgun that was once owned by former American President Richard Nixon. The gold-inlaid Browning 12-gauge automatic shotgun will be offered at James D. Julia Auctioneers’ Important Firearms sale in Fairfield, Maine on March 14. [...]
7 March 2011 
Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust Goes On Display In The UK
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World’s Most Expensive Painting – Pablo-Picaso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust The most expensive painting ever to be sold at auction, Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, is now on show in the UK for the first time at the Tate Modern. The 1932 painting sold to a private collector for a record $106 million [...]
7 February 2011 
A Grand Sale at the Grand Palais – Lord Raglan’s Bugattis Realise Over €1.2M at Bonhams’ Paris Sale
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1933 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix Two Seater KING BAUDOUIN OF BELGIUM’S 1955 ASTON MARTIN DB2/4 SPORTS SALOON SELLS FOR €333,500 – A WORLD RECORD AUCTION PRICE FOR THE MODEL The 1933 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix Two-Seater owned by the late Fitzroy John Somerset, the 5th Baron Raglan (1927-2010), Patron and former Chairman of [...]
14 August 2010 
Extremely Limited as Black as Night – Loch Dhu The Black Whisky
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Loch Dhu – The Black Whisky You’ve heard of the Black Irish? Now feast your eyes on the black scotch. It’s called Loch Dhu The Black Whisky – gaelic for black lake – and it’s only available in extremely limited quantities. It’s common practice in whisky craft to char the barrels in which the malt [...]
12 August 2010 
1931 Bugatti Type 51 to Get a Record Price at RM Auctions
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1931 Bugatti Type 51 Race Car RM Auctions will hold its 2010 Sports and Classics of Monterey auction on August 12th to 14th at the Portola Hotel and Spa and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, California. RM’s 25th annual auction will feature approximately 225 cars, with 20 automobiles estimated to garner over $1 million. Other [...]
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