Following the recent earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy, Sotheby’s in association with the Municipality of Milan, Mondadori Publishing House and Casaviva magazine will hold a charity auction on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 7pm of 70 chairs by some of the world’s most important designers, to raise funds for the people of Abruzzo. The auction, which [...]

International collector attention was focused on the April 21st sale of European Paintings presented at the New York galleries of international auctioneers Bonhams. Offering over 200 lots, the well rounded sale – which included Old Masters and 19th Century works by artists from the French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Italian and British Schools – lured an [...]

Ketterer Kunst is celebrating its new House for Art directly at Neue Messe Munich with the sale of important works dating from the 15th to the 21st centuries at four Grand Welcome Auctions to be held on 19/20 June 2009. “I’m very glad indeed that we can now present our new domicle for art in [...]

Sotheby’s spring sale of Russian Art in New York will take place on April 22, 2009, and include a wide variety of modern and contemporary Russian painting and Works of Art featuring an exceptional selection of Icons and decorative items with Imperial lineage. The pre-sale exhibition will open to the public on April 17.
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Imagine traveling to Scotland to acquire exceptional paintings, England to collect rare toys, Israel to find fine art, France to buy exquisite jewelry, Germany to discover Russian works of art, and the United States to locate the perfect piece of furniture…all in 14 days! Through Artfact’s industry leading live auction bidding platform, Artfact Live!, or [...]

The giant jaws of a prehistoric shark are set for a Paris auction.
The Shark jaws are among about 100 lots at a sale of natural history-related items organized by Christie’s auction house.
The jaws, which stand over 6.5 feet (2 meters) tall and have 168 teeth, belonged to an extinct carnivorous shark that lived 10,000 years [...]

IpAuctions, Inc. (www.ipauctions.com) will auction one pharmaceutical patent and one patent application on behalf of specialty pharmaceutical company CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (www.cydexpharma.com) of Lenexa, Kansas, USA.
The patent application is for a novel taste-masking formulation which CyDex has developed. CyDex’s Captisol® (sulfobutyl ether ?-cyclodextrin) has been combined with Sertraline (the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug [...]

Published in Amsterdam in 1730, the work, featuring 256 stunning copperplate engravings, is to be sold at the Ketterer Kunst auctions in Hamburg on 18 und 19 May 2009.
Maria Sibylla Merian’s “Over de voorteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaamschen insecten …” is indeed a highlight of the Hamburg auction of Rare Books – Manuscripts – [...]

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — A bidding war is under way in the U.K. for land that will be used for building a new generation of nuclear power stations. The online auction of three lots of land adjacent to old nuclear power stations by the U.K.’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has now [...]