Located at the firm’s gallery on 913 Upward Road in Flat Rock,North Carolina, Richard D. Hatch and Associates will host on February 25^th, a two-day estates auction. With over 1,300 lots, a variety of prominent local estates will also participate.

A wide arrangement of Tiffany, Handel, Duffner & Kimberly, Steuben and other rare and vintage lamps; as well as early Meissen figures, including a set of the “Four Seasons;” will be showcased. Among other lots, porcelains such as Sevres, Old Paris, Herend, Limoges, Lenox, KPM plaques, and more will be featured.

With a glassware selection that will include Steuben and Baccarat, antique oriental rugs like silk Sumac Kazak, estate jewelry with a vintage platinum necklace with diamonds totaling 50 carats, fine artwork by the likes of Gisson, etchings, bronzes, and many other categories, this particular auction will be able to satisfy each need and desire present on the day thereof.

Previews are scheduled on Thursday Feb. 25^th to Friday, February 26^th, from 1-6 p.m. Also another scheduled preview will take place on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 9:30-11 a.m

Phone and absentee bidding will also be accepted. All sales will be subject to a 10 percent buyer’s premium (in-house and absentee bids) and 15 percent (online and live phone bids).

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On February 2, 2010, Christie’s will showcase its London: Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, as well as, its The Art of Surreal.

Consisting of 48 lots, Pablo Picasso’s “Homme assis sur une chaise,” estimated at £3.5 million to £5.5 million and “Nu aux jambes croisées” by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), estimated at £2.5 million to £4 million, to name a few, will be presented. A portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) will also be featured.

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For over 38 years, the Barrett Jackson Auction Company has offered a wide selection of top quality-collector cars. With a growing number of yearly visitors, exceptional service, as well as phenomenal sales success, Barrett Jackson has become one of the leading names on Collector Car auction.

The next Barrett Jackson Auction Show will be in Palm Beach, Florida during April 1-3.

Posted above, this 1969 CHEVROLET CAMARO RS/SS CUSTOM “PROJECT AMERICAN HEROES’  sale price was: $500,000.00

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Included in the sale of Important Americana, the punch bowl was bought at an unrivaled cost of $5,906,500.

Auctioneer David Redden began the bidding at $25,000. Almost instantaneously, Ian Irving, of Ian Irving Ltd., called out a bid for $500,000. As the selling price continued to rise, a total of six bidders joined in the bidding. As the mark reached $3 million, only two bidders remained, New York dealer S. J. Shrubsole and an anonymous gentleman. With the final price of $5.9 million being set by the anonymous gentleman, the previous auction record for American silver was broken. ($775,750).

Rum and punch, anyone?

Before the King of Pop’s untimely death last summer, it was well known that he was planning his “This Is It” tour. He had commissioned Italian furniture maker Colombostile to produce and deliver custom made furniture to a London mansion he was to live out of during the tour.

Totaling a cost of $700,000, the Italian company returned the money to Katherine Jackson and now plans to auction off the unique furniture set.

Among some of the items were a $120,000 sofa, 15 ft long and inlaid with onyx stones. This sofa was also planned to be a prop on stage during the performances. Another red velvet sofa, which was ordered for his bedroom, comes with pillows made out of the very same material used for his clothes.

He ordered an assortment of chairs: one that was covered in shells, one that was purchased for friend Elizabeth Taylor (who was to have a room at his mansion), and one that was embroidered with 25k gold. Lastly, there is a $110,000 handmade desk modeled after one given to King Louis XIV. The desk even features a secret compartment.

While a date for the auction has not been set yet, each of these pieces is expected to fetch millions.

Colombostile

On February 3rd, Sotheby’s will aim at making history. Expecting to create a record breaking feat, the auction house will be hosting an auction of Impressionist and modern art,  and is touted to fetch more than £69 million ($111 million).

The masterpieces that are slated to obtain some of the highest sums at this auction include a landscape by Gustav Klimt seized by the Nazis and lost for decades, which is expected to fetch more than £10 million ($16.2million). Klimt’s Kirche in Cassone (Church in Cassone – Landscape with Cypresses) painted in 1913, is the only surviving example of the artist’s celebrated series of paintings of Lake Garda, Italy. Besides this masterpiece, the other two art works that are touted to fetch more than £10 million include a still life, Pichet et fruits sur une table by Paul Cézanne, which has an upper estimate of £15 million ($24.3 million) and a rare life-size sculpture, L’Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti which could fetch as much as £18 million ($29.1million).

This auction at Sotheby’s in London will be the first of Impressionist and modern art to feature a trio of different works with such high estimates.

Sotheby’s