On May 29, 2008, Villa Grisebach will begin this year’s spring sales with a photography auction that will include approximately 300 classic and contemporary photographs.
A special emphasis has been placed on rare and extraordinary Vintage German photographs from the 20th Century, e.g. a large print by Aenne Biermann titled “Anthurie” (1927-29) from the Estate of [...]

Nine manuscripts including the “Surrealist Manifesto” that defined one of the great art movements of the 20th century fetched 3.2 million euros at a Paris auction on Wednesday.
The documents published in 1924 were from the collection of the late Simone Collinet, Breton’s first wife.
Breton, who died in September 1966 at age 70, defined the surrealist [...]

Sotheby’s forthcoming auction of Swiss art will be held at 83 Talstrasse, Zurich, on Tuesday, 27 May 2008 at 6 pm, the first auction to take place on these new premises. 154 works of the 19th and 20th centuries with an estimated value of CHF 19-27 million (€ 11.6 – 16.9 million) will be offered [...]

The Spanish National Police have arrested the head of an auction who is alleged to have appropriated 13 works of art, one by Joaquin Sorolla. The works of art were valued at 700,000 Euros.
The person arrested, Iturbide, sold paintings to three galleries in Madrid and Barcelona some of those works of art and obtained [...]

‘The Four Seasons’, by the Flemish master Sebastaen Vrancx (1578-1647) sold for €1.2 million - a world auction record for the artist and the second highest price ever fetched by an Old Master Painting in the Netherlands (NB: the Dutch auction record was set in May 2007 at Sotheby’s Amsterdam when the ‘Card Players’ [...]

A wristwatch which belonged to an Italian racing driver Count Carlo Felice Trossi, fetched $2.25 million) at a Geneva auction.
The large gold Patek Philippe chronograph watch originally owned by Counti, who was president of Scuderia Ferrari, went for the highest price ever for a wristwatch sold at Sotheby’s, the auction house said.

A selection of antiques will be put up for auction today with all proceeds raised going to a special cat neutering programme.
The auction starts at 2pm at the Amathus Riding Club in Parreklisia and all are welcome.
The Cyprus cat-snip programme aims at spaying and neutering feral cats in Limassol and the surrounding towns.
For more information [...]

LONDON - The second European 2.6GHz spectrum auction concluded this week in Sweden. With auctions coming up in other European countries, including the UK, Austria and the Netherlands, the outcome of the Swedish auction provides much needed information on the price that operators will pay for 2.6GHz spectrum throughout Europe, says Analysys Mason, the premier [...]

On July 7 the first-ever sale of Aboriginal Art at Artcurial | Briest - Poulain - F. Tajan. It will be the most important ensemble ever to come to auction outside Australia.
Some sixty works from the personal collection of Peter Los will be offered, with an overall estimate of €600,000. The collection, amassed over a [...]