MacDougall’s total presale estimate was 10 million pounds to 14 million pounds. All 454 lots, most of which came from American and European collections, were 19th- and 20th-century paintings, with a large selection of Soviet-era non-conformism. MacDougall’s said 90 percent of the buyers were born in the former Soviet Union, and half are Moscow-based.
“We’ve doubled [...]

A spectacular full-length portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830), the most successful portrait painter of his time, is set to make up to £500,000 in Bonhams’ Old Master Paintings sale in New Bond Street, London Lawrence was one of the most talented and respected artists of the Regency era despite never having received any [...]

A “spooky” image of a priest executed for treason over the Gunpowder Plot has appeared on a 17th century book thought to be bound in his skin, it is claimed.
Auctioneers said the face of Father Henry Garnet could be seen peering from the cover of the “rare and macabre” book about the Jesuit priest’s death.
The [...]

Chilcotts, the fine art and antiques auctioneers and valuerst, is to open a second saleroom in Honiton, it was announced on Monday.
Chilcotts will run the Silver Street saleroom in conjunction with Stags, a leading West Country firm of estate agents, valuers and estate managers.
“Since we established Chilcotts just over three years ago, it became obvious [...]

Sedo is hosting a premium auction for Benelux domain names. The .nl ccTLD is the third largest ( after .de and .co.uk ) with over 2,500,000 registered domain names.
Domains such as podcast.nl, dames.nl, spyware.nl, lcd.nl, usb.nl are being auctioned off.
The auction closes this Friday November 30th at approximately 11:00 am.

The French professional football league starts an auction for the rights to broadcast its top-flight division matches from 2008 to 2012 on Friday, but may struggle to match the record fee paid for the current season.
LFP, the body that runs the French football league, hopes to attract a large number of bidders so that it [...]

Prints by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch earned record prices at an Oslo auction, with a version of his “Vampire” earning more than two million dollars, the auction house said Wednesday.
Thirty-five out of 36 Munch works sold Tuesday evening were sold for a total of about 10 million dollars, said Hans Rickard Elgheim of Grev Wedels [...]

A CARE centre is holding a fundraising auction ready for a move to a new site.
The Harvey Jones Adolescent Unit in Velindre Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff, is being relocated to Glan Rhyd in Bridgend in the new year and wants to raise funds to buy games and equipment for those who stay there.
The unit, which provides [...]

The Yakutia Republic, one of Russia’s remote Far Eastern regions, will stage an international auction of mammoth tusks and other remains on Friday, the fourth event of this kind there.
According to Yakutia’s ministry in charge of business affairs, officials are currently performing all necessary preparations, including evaluating the items for sale, particularly their quality and [...]

A landscape by Ferdinand Hodler, which had been out of the public eye for more than half a century, failed to reach its guide price at auction on Tuesday.
The painting by one of Switzerland’s best-known artists attracted a top bid of 4.9 million Swiss francs ($4.46 million), below a guide price range of 5 to [...]