Auction News

Bernard Madoff has hired a veteran prison consultant to help him to find the best possible jail in which to serve his 150-year sentence for Wall Street's biggest fraud.

Art lovers looking for a way to mark U.S. Independence Day may want to consider a rare bust of George Washington being auctioned by Sotheby's in London.

AN EARL who sparked outrage when he banned gay weddings at his castle is selling off his ancestor's handwritten account of the dramas of the Civil War.

The idea behind cap-and-trade is relatively simple: A governing body caps the amount of pollutants that can be released into the atmosphere, then mandates that companies emitting those pollutants must hold permits to cover the amount of pollutants they expel.

Eva Rothschild has been invited to create the next installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2009, supported by Sotheby's. Her new work, created especially for the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be on display until 29 November 2009.

Another Picasso painting went for a similar amount in Christie's earlier. A colourful - swordsman' painted Picasso has been sold at Sotheby's in London for 6.98 million pounds .

Sotheby's might want to send a bidding paddle to Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.

Superstar singer Michael Jackson will be remembered for a lot of things, from hit records to a galvanizing stage presence to his enormous personal troubles.

DGSE Companies, Inc. , which wholesales, retails and auctions fine watches, jewelry, diamonds and precious metal and rare coin products via traditional and Internet channels, today announced that it sold its two pawnshops in Dallas, Texas in an all cash transaction .

The economic recovery in Asia has prompted the popping of champagne corks in the fine wine market, where prices are recovering from last year's sharp fall after a resurgence in interest from Asian buyers.

Asian vintage lovers helped boost auction house Sotheby's wine sales so far this year to $19.2 million, far exceeding estimates and defying the downturn.

"Old Jake," the 150-year-old weather vane that long held its place atop the Charley Rouss Fire Company building, now has a new home in Winchester.

ONE of the nation's most celebrated and admired pieces of public art - the Angel Of The North - is to find a temporary new home in the heart of the Chatsworth estate.

Reckoning airbrushed stencil with overpainting, framed, image 183 4 x 143 4in, together with a Grateful Dead 15th Anniversary concert brochure, Radio City, 1980.

A Group of John Nyquist furniture. Estimates range from $2,000-9,000. From the Personal Collection of John Nyquist, Long Beach, California.

CANADA'S chance to reclaim a long-lost piece of the country's heritage was scuttled Friday by an American art collector.

Sun Country Airlines is set to lose two planes if a judge agrees to grant the court-appointed receiver handling Tom Petters' assets.

Rival auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's are offering 1969 Picasso musketeer paintings at their London sales next week in a head-to-head clash.

Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday placed Sotheby's long-term ratings on review for possible downgrade, including its corporate family rating of Ba2.

A collection of royal letters, including Louis XV's account of how he shot his horse, is expected to fetch 150,000 at auction enlarge How King Louis XV came to shoot his own horse in the bottom is described, by the monarch himself, in a batch of royal letters to be auctioned in Paris today.