Famous modern Indian paintings, sculptures and photographs will go under the hammer in New York when Sotheby’s holds an auction on behalf of the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art next month.
The auction will feature works by artists such as Tyeb Mehta, Jehangir Sabavala, Somnath Hore, Sakti Burman, Ram Kumar, F.N. Souza, Akbar Padamsee, Jogen [...]

On June 5, 2007, Bonhams New York held two auctions of works by Contemporary Studio Artists. The early offering, titled International Contemporary Ceramics, was the inaugural New York sale of international Contemporary ceramics for the auctioneers.
The later session featured Contemporary Studio Works of Art, including one of the largest groupings of Contemporary glass to come [...]

Bonhams announced this week that two key specialists in Japanese Art recruited from Sotheby’s will join Bonhams Asian Art Department, one of the company’s most successful specialist areas.
Colin Sheaf, Bonhams Deputy Chairman and Head of Asian Arts said: “We are delighted to welcome Neil Davey and Suzannah Yip, specialists in Japanese Art to Bonhams. Neil, [...]

A collection of shop display items from Hilliard and Chapman, who were “Cutlers and Surgical Instrument Makers to The Queen and Prince Albert,” based at 56 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, will be sold at Bonhams’ annual Scottish Sale in Edinburgh between 22 – 24 August 2007.

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The smoking ban will have a positive effect in helping car owners to protect their residual values at remarketing time according to British Car Auctions.
The ban, which comes into force next week, should mean fewer ex-fleet cars will be offered for sale with smoker’s damage.
Therefore fleet owners should see the benefit in improved residual values [...]

A deck log from a ship that searched for bodies after the Titanic sank sold for more than $100,000 as part of a Christie’s auction on Thursday.
“It’s a journal that documents how many bodies were picked up and where in the Titanic debris field in the Atlantic Ocean,” said Gregg Dietrich, Christie’s maritime and oceanliner [...]

The West Bengal government and the Union territory of Chandigarh are setting up two terminal auction markets for fruits and vegetables. The West Bengal auction market, mooted by the state ministry of food processing, will be located in Dankuni, near Kolkata, while Chandigarh’s Modern Terminal Market will be located in the city, at sector 39. [...]

Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers held a huge one-day auction offering everything from transport trucks to backhoes. This is the first auction the company has put on in Thunder Bay since 2002. Event organizers estimate that more than 700 people will bid on the 750 items. Ritchie Brothers president Randy Wall says they chose to hold the [...]

The replica pistols were due to be sold at an auction of lost and stolen goods in Dublin today, but were withdrawn after negative political reaction.
A senior opposition politician called for the silver and black-coloured mock pistols to be pulled from the auction, but the force initially insisted they were harmless toys.
A box of around [...]

The Central Bank of Cyprus, acting on behalf of the government of Cyprus held an auction for 10-year maturing bonds as well as a Treasury Bills auction with 13 weeks maturity, for which it received bids, but decided not to accept any. For the 10-year bond, with a coupon of 4.5% and for up to [...]