Sotheby’sauction of African and Oceanic Art from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal surpassed pre-sale estimates, bringing $10,859,944 (est. $6,849,500/ 10,808,000). This offering represents the most important collection of African and Oceanic Art to be offered in forty years in New York and is the highest total for a single-owner sale of African and […]

Christie’s has announced the second sale of Modern and Contemporary Australian and South African Art on Tuesday, 16 December 2008; the sale brings the best artworks from Australia and South Africa to the London marketplace.
Australian Modern and Contemporary Art Highlights
Leading this section is a single-owner collection of nine pictures by the pioneering Australian modern artist […]

The average tea price at a weekly auction in Mombasa, Kenya dropped 12 percent to $1.79 a kilogram at the Nov. 10 -11 auctions, from $2.04 a week earlier, Mombasa-based Africa Tea Brokers Ltd, said

About 47 metric tons of ivory auctioned for about 6.7 million U.S. dollars in aid of South Africa’s conservation efforts, South Africa National Parks said on Thursday.
The sale, approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), took place in Pretoria.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) criticised […]

Zimbabwe has sold almost four tonnes of ivory for $487,162, the third in a set of four auctions approved under an international agreement, to sell off stocks of Elephant ivory, from natural deaths or the culling of herds to keep the population under control.
Local auctioneer Keni Mubaiwa of K. M Auctions conducted the auction.
The funds […]