“It was an outstanding auction, an exhilarating auction,” was the comment made by auctioneer Robert Ketterer on the auctions he held on 19/20 June to officially inaugurate the new Ketterer Kunst headquarters.
“The sales quotient by lot numbers was comparable to the best results achieved in the golden age of the past three years. With post-auction [...]

ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions – a division of ICAP (IAP.L), the world’s premier interdealer broker – today announced it will offer for sale a large number of intellectual property assets held by Philips Electronics on July 23rd in Chicago at The ICAP Ocean Tomo Summer IP Markets 2009 Auction & Conference with essential information regarding [...]

The Louis Picard painting “Ira Aldridge in Taras Shevchenko’s Studio” is bound to cause a sensation. Painted around 1900, the portrait will go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century auction as the spectacular prelude to the four Welcome Auctions to be held on 19 and 20 [...]

Hart Davis Hart offered a second installment of French Classics from a Magnificent Cellar last weekend in Chicago, realizing $1,894,350 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,204,010 to $1,805,060. Highlights included a case of 12 bottles of 1961 Palmer recently released from Mähler-Besse that brought $22,705 (est. $10,000-15,000), a case of 6 magnums of 1988 [...]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment company Kennedy Wilson, announces the formation of its Commercial Auction Division. Clifford Smith, senior vice president of Kennedy Wilson’s Commercial Investment Group (KW Investments), has been appointed to lead the commercial auction division, according to Rhett Winchell, president of the Auction [...]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, conducted the largest Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Denver, Colorado auctions in Company history last week. Ritchie Bros. (www.rbauction.com) sold almost US$46 million of equipment in Dubai (June 1 – 3, 2009) and almost US$35 million of equipment in Denver (June 4 & 5). The Company [...]

An autographed version of one of the most iconic images of the 20th Century is being made available for purchase in the current RR Auction. In 1953, at the height of the 1950s Communist witch-hunt, Albert Einstein signed the photo for award-winning CBS and ABC anchor reporter Howard K. Smith as a gesture of his [...]

“Today’s art market demands, apart from high quality, the factors of rarity and market freshness,” thus Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. And he adds: “I’m very glad, especially at our grand Welcome Auctions on 19/20 June 2009 in our new Munich House, to be in a position to provide an extremely choice [...]

This year’s spring auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on June 4, 2009 with the sale of Modern and Contemporary photography including a copy of only ten numbered that exist of the image of the French First Lady taken by U.S. photographer Pamela Hanson
Also, among the 190 lots for sale, are a [...]

A medical book (Physician’s Desk Reference) once owned by Elvis Presley fetched $8,600 while selling on eBay.
The book, claimed to contain notes written by Presley in 1976, was accompanied by another item which also related to Presley’s health at the time.