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$4.6 Million Millennium Blue Diamond Ring

By timbaysinger • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Jewelry, News & Noteworthy

A 5.16-carat Pear-Shaped Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond Ring will be the prize piece of Sotheby’s upcoming “Jewels and Jadeite” Spring Sale, taking place on April 7 in Hong Kong.
This rare gem, which is from an Important Private Collection, is the first of De Beers Millennium Blue Diamond Collection to be at auction. Estimated [...]



L’Amour et Psyché Hopes to Sell for $1.8 Million at April Auction

By timbaysinger • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Collect, News & Noteworthy

William Bouguereau’s L’Amour et Psyché will be the crown jewel of Sotheby’s upcoming auction.
Set to be part of the 19th Century European Art sale in New York on April 23, this recently discovered work by the French Academic painter is from a Distinguished Private Collection. It’s been off the market for almost fifty years and was last [...]



March Auction Preview: Sotheby’s

By timbaysinger • Feb 25th, 2010 • Category: Collect, News & Noteworthy

Sotheby’s has 16 auctions on the docket for March, each one offering up something unique that you can’t find anywhere else.
Featuring sales in New York, Paris, London and Amsterdam, Sotheby’s has some of the most exquisite items for you to bid on. On the 8th, the “Bat Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant [...]



Peter Stuyvesant Collection Expected To Fetch €4-5 Million at Sotheby’s

By timbaysinger • Feb 19th, 2010 • Category: Collect, News & Noteworthy

Highlighted by Niki de Saint-Phalle’s Lili ou Tony, which is estimated at €200,000-€300,000, Sotheby’s auction house’s sale of the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection (now property of British American Tobacco) is the largest sampling of post-war and contemporary art to go under the mallet in the Netherlands.
Set to take place in Amsterdam on March 8, this sale features [...]



Sotheby’s Hopes to Collect $24,000 for 1982 Chateau Petrus

By timbaysinger • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: News & Noteworthy, Oenology

On February 17th, London auction house Sotheby’s will hold this year’s Finest and Rarest Wines & Vintage Port.
One of the items up for auction is a 1982 Chateau Petrus. Estimated to go for between $20,000 and $24,000 (£12,500-£15,000), this bottle sports a sweet “leather” taste, and a soft cinnamon kick at the end. Sotheby’s describes [...]



Alberto Giacometti Sculpture Hopes to Sell for at Least $19 Million

By timbaysinger • Jan 8th, 2010 • Category: Collect, News & Noteworthy

 

As part of Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionistic & Modern Art next month, the Alberto Giacometti sculpture L’Homme qui marche I will go under the mallet. Set to take place February 3rd in London, this bronze masterpiece is expecting to fetch between $19-29 Million.
 
This will be the first time a Giacometti figure of a walking man in [...]



Gianni Versace Auction Expected to Fetch Upwards of £2 Million

By Affluent Page Editor • Feb 26th, 2009 • Category: Collect, News & Noteworthy

On March 18, Sotheby’s London is expected to fetch more than £2 million for the sale of an exquisite collection of paintings, sculptures and works from the late designer Gianni Versace’s Villa Fontalle, on Lake Cuomo, Italy, comprising of 550 lots. 
The house was built by and eccentric visiting Englishman, Lord Charles Currie in 1776 [...]



Rent the Record-Breaking $39 Million St. Barth’s Villa

By Jared Paul Stern • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: News & Noteworthy, Travel

  

A lavish villa in St. Barth’s which was just sold by Sotheby’s Int’l Realty for $39 million, setting a new record for the chic French West Indies resort, will be available for rent a few weeks out of the year for pre-qualified individuals. Completed late last year, Villa La Grande Maison des Etoiles, located in [...]



Cubist Masterpiece by Picasso to be Sold by Sotheby’s

By Affluent Page Editor • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Collect, News & Noteworthy

Picasso’s Cubist Harlequin Withdrawn From Sotheby’s Sale
“A Picasso Cubist painting that was to have been a star of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art sale on Nov. 3 has been abruptly withdrawn from the auction. … It had been rumored for weeks that the work would be taken off the market because of fears that art [...]



Sotheby’s to Auction Rare Indian and Southeast Asian Art

By Affluent Page Luxury Index • Aug 29th, 2008 • Category: Collect, News & Noteworthy

On September 19, Sotheby’s will auction 118 lots of rare (and rarely at auction) Indian and Southeast Asian paintings, miniatures and objects. The group is expected to fetch a total of between $2.3 and $3.2 million. Sotheby’s has experienced unusually high prices for traditional Indian art in recent years, as economic growth in India appears [...]