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Archive for March, 2006

Elton John to Auction Clothes

Friday, March 31st, 2006

British singer Elton John is set to sell his clothes for charity, at a public auction.
New York’s Rockefeller Center will host the event, where the singer hopes to raise funds and awareness to fight AIDs.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation will auction more than 10,000 articles of clothing belonging to the star, and his partner, David […]

Rare items at the 2006 Nederburg Auction Rare South African Finds charity auction

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Auction Blogs
DRUMSTICKS signed by Alex Van Halen and a Monty Python T-shirt are items that go under the hammer on Sunday 9 April at the 2006 Nederburg Auction Rare South African Finds charity event.
All proceeds will be shared by Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, Organ Donor Foundation and an AIDS-HIV-support NGO, called Mothers2Mothers.

New Buyers Flock to Asian Art

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Auction Blogs
Contemporary Indian art is attracting new buyers, both among nonresident Indians and collectors on the subcontinent. Traditional Indian art sales have remained steady, while 20th-century art has been picking up admirers. Call it the attack of the billion-dollar global contemporary art market, or simply the recognition of the avant-garde’s originality by Asia’s nouveau riches.

Indian artwoks to feature at Singapore auction

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Auction Blogs
The works of 10 Indians, among them M.F. Husain and F.N. Souza, are to feature at a South East Asian Art Auction here next month and are expected to fetch between $10,000 and $360,000 a piece.
Husain’s 2005 canvas of Mother Teresa in the La Pieta posture, an image that haunted him long after he […]

Dubai outbids France at telecom auction

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Auction Blogs
Dubai’s Tecom outbid French Vivendi in a tender for 35 per cent of Tunisie Telecom, offering 3.05 billion Tunisian Dinars ($2.24bn) versus 2.76bn dinars offered by the French group, officials said at an open auction session.
Vivendi offered 2.44 billion dinars early this month ahead of Tecom’s 2.38bn, and the two companies were selected as […]