The 1954 William Dargie Portrait of H.M. Elizabeth II will go on sale at Bonhams Australian and International Fine Art Sale in Melbourne on 6th May, where it is expected to fetch between £25,000-35,000.
William Dargie’s original portrait of the sovereign in her ‘wattle’ dress soon became Australia’s most reproduced and famous painting. Colour prints were [...]

The Treasury announced on Wednesday it will auction a record $71 billion of securities next week.
The Department said it will sell the $71 billion in notes and bonds under its quarterly refunding auctions: $35 billion in 3-year notes, $22 billion in 10-year notes and $14 billion in 30-year bonds.
The auctions will generate money to refund [...]

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 [...]

Ritchie Bros is selling a single shield 450-foot long, 820-ton, self-propelling, hard rock tunnel boring machine (TBM) with trailing gear at an upcoming three-day unreserved auction in Los Angeles from May 20 to 22, 2009. The TBM is 19 feet in diameter and was built to specification by German-based manufacturer Herrenknecht for the underground mining [...]

eBay India, India’s leading online marketplace, today announced it was the one stop destination for IPL 2009 merchandise from all 8 IPL Teams – Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals. eBay India has inked partnerships with branded apparel companies – [...]

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 [...]

Sotheby’s New York spring sale of African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art will be held on May 15, 2009, and will offer collectors a selection of tribal arts from important American and international private collections. The sale will comprise an especially rich offering of Oceanic works of art, several of which are the best of [...]

WWA Group, Inc. has announced that it has surpassed $1 billion in gross auction sales and that its April 20th – 22nd, 2009 auction in Dubai attracted more registered and successful bidders than any other in the company’s history.
The realization of $1 billion in gross auction sales, of which nearly $200 million was generated in [...]

Grogan & Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers held their annual spring auction, The April Auction, on Sunday, April 19th. The auction, comprised over 500 lots of Fine Art, 18th and 19th century Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs, netted over 1.3 million dollars in sales and attracted [...]

The Ex-Maharajah of Bharatpur and Robert Gove’s 1931 Horch Cabriolet to Headline Auction on Sunday 3 May 2009
This fascinating car was presented to to Robert Gove of Victoria from the Maharajah of Bharatpur in the 1930s in exchange for horses. The Gove family had supplied the Maharajahs with fine horses of all kinds – [...]