On 29 and 30 September 2008 Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer a selection of sculpture, furniture, paintings, ceramics, silver and works of art from European collections. The common denominator for the items in this sale is the elegant, continental lifestyle of the collectors. Many of the works on offer have been in collections or estates for [...]

Giancorrado Ulrich, an art collector from Milan, is suing auction house Sotheby’s for $32 million for a painting by Parmigianino he sent them over three years ago for authentication. The work is titled “Rest on the Flight into Egypt”.
The lawsuit claims “Sotheby’s is responsible for the loss of the painting.”
Christopher Apostle, Sotheby’s director [...]

The art collection of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge has been put up for auction and will be sold in February 2009, auction house Christie’s said.
Christie’s declined to estimate how much the collection was likely to fetch until all items had been identified, but experts have put the figure between [...]

Berlin has cancelled the auction of the federal printing plant in order to prevent sensitive technology or the details of 80m identity card holders from falling into the wrong hands.
A government official confirmed Berlin was preparing a partial renationalisation of the Bundesdruckerei it sold in 2000. The official said the auction process had failed to [...]

Ketterer’s new auction is almost completed.
On a property covering some 3500 square metres, a three-storey structure will boast a state-of-the-art auction room, a spacious exhibition area, an art lounge with a reading corner, a café bar with a cosmopolitan ambience and, at 8 metres in height by 23 metres in width, what is most likely [...]

Hungary’s Energy Office is to hold a public auction on October 27 to sell electricity at an MEH-stipulated price, the MEH announced on Thursday.
MVM experts said major European electricity companies in Germany, France and Spain are dominant market powers just as MVM. A Hungarian ministerial decree enacted on January 1 makes it possible to define [...]

NAPLES, FL - Discount Marketing Corp and Alfred Luckerbauer, the US representatives for DubLi Network, announced today that DubLi, with operational headquarters located in Berlin, Germany is ready to begin their official launch to all countries located in the European Union. Launch date is set for July 8, 2008.
DubLi, a German internet marketing company, has [...]

MONCOFA, SPAIN - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, conducted the largest Spain auction in Company history last week, selling (euro)20 million (US$32 million) of used and unused heavy equipment and trucks over two days (July 3 & 4, 2008). The unreserved public auction at Ritchie Bros.’ new Moncofa, Spain auction site [...]

The summer auctions will take place every Wednesday at 2:00 P.M. Viewing on all items starts one week before the auction date.
Auction dates July 2008
02 July 2008 2:00 pm
09 July 2008 2:00 pm
16 July 2008 2:00 pm
23 July 2008 2:00 pm
30 July 2008 2:00 pm
Auction dates August 2008
06 August 2008 2:00 pm
13 August 2008 2:00 [...]

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Ocean Tomo Auctions, LLC — the auctions arm of Ocean Tomo, LLC, the leading Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm — today announced the results of its 2008 European Live IP Auction held on 26th June at the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky. Cumulative sales, including buyer’s premium, totaled $12,674,046 (€8,085,000), with an average [...]