http://www.bonhams.com Bonhams: auctioneers of fine art, antiques, collectables and motor cars en-gb Copyright 2008 webmaster@bonhams.com http://www.bonhams.com/images/TitleBlockTopblue.gif Bonhams: auctioneers of fine art, antiques, collectables and motor cars Collectors and admirers of Canadian art competed for works in oil and watercolour in Bonhams’ auction in Toronto on Tuesday evening (Dec. 2, 2008). The sale realised CAD$543,000, with 68% of the lots selling (85% by value). These included several strong prices for works by Cornelius Krieghoff, A.Y. Jackson, Norval Morrisseau, Sybil Andrews, Peter Whyte, and Manly MacDonald.

From a private collection in England came a pair of Cornelius David Krieghoff works attracting...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3971 Because of the growth of buying interest in Modern and Contemporary South Asian and Middle Eastern Art, Bonhams has created a new specialist department to service this area of collecting.

The new department evolved out of the Indian and Islamic Department, headed by Claire Penhallurick, which has grown the Modern and Contemporary area so successfully that the time has come to establish a stand-alone specialist area.

Mehreen Rizvi-Khursheed who has extensive experience in...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3968 Bonhams’ traditional end of season UK sale at Olympia in London drew the crowds yesterday (1 December 2008), with the wide selection of collectors’ motor cars, motorcycles and automobilia attracting international interest.

Strong prices were achieved for cars as diverse as a Swedish supercar - the 2004 Koenigsegg - which sold for £172,000 and a 1913 Adler Kleinwagen Tourer which doubled the pre-sale estimate, fetching £24,150. Top price in the sale was...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3969 A portrait of Georgiana Macdonald, friend of William Morris and wife of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne Jones, comes to light in Norfolk
A portrait of Georgiana Mcdonald (1840-1920), one of William Morris’s closest friends and the future wife of the famous Pre-Raphaelite artist, Sir Edward Coley Burne Jones, has come to light at Bonhams in Norfolk.
The picture by the artist, Blanche F. MacArthur (British, active 1870-1903), is estimated at £2,000 - 3,000, and will be...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3964 CLOCKS WITH LINKS TO ENGLISH AND FRENCH ROYAL FAMILIES

This year sees the 350th anniversary of the first working clock pendulum. To mark this historic event Bonhams is selling an incredibly rare clock, which was made by the clockmaker to King Louis XIV, in the very first years of pendulum production.

The clock, which pre-dates the Great Fire of London, is estimated to fetch £25,000-35,000 and will be sold in Bonhams sale of Fine Clocks and Barometers on...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3965 A fabulous selection of snuff boxes that highlight the refinement elegance and manners of the 18th century will be sold by Bonhams on 3 December.

The snuff boxes are part of the Helmut Joseph Collection, the greatest collection of porcelain snuff boxes of the 20th Century. Joseph made his collection available to the public for many years at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam 1972-2003 and subsequently at the Gilbert Collection at Somerset House, London 2003-2008.

The...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3966
Bond photo credits: www.007magazine.co.uk James Bond’s Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me fetches £111,500 at London auction

With the 007 movie Quantum of Solace bringing James Bond back into the public eye, Bonhams today (1 December 2008) sold the 1976 Lotus Esprit, driven by Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me, for £111,500.

The classic white sports car,...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3967 Cars which carried James Bond, Marc Bolan, Diana, Princess of Wales and The Duke of Marlborough to be auctioned

A half scale 1930s children’s Cadillac will appear for sale at Bonhams’ annual auction of Collectors’ Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia at Olympia, London on Monday 1 December 2008. It is expected to fetch in excess of £6,000.

The two-tone green half scale, convertible car is powered by a 24-volt electric motor and is able...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3963 Bonhams latest Antique Arms and Armour Sale on 26 November bucked current financial trends and provided a buoyant total of £703,000 with 85 per cent of lots sold.

David Williams, Head of Bonhams Antique Arms and Armour Department, said after the sale: “What this clearly shows is that this area of the applied arts continues to attract committed collecting and bidding.”

A Russian dagger estimated to make £6,000 to £8,000 was a surprise,...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3962 One of the most important motor cars in the world emerges from its secret hideaway for the first time in 50 years.

The 1937 Bugatti Type 57S originally owned by Earl Howe, whose existence has only been known to a handful of people during the last 50 years will be sold at Bonhams’ Retromobile sale in Paris on 7 February 2009. This highly significant motor car is conservatively estimated to realise in excess of €3,000,000.

The Bugatti with Atalante coachwork retains...]]>http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?Screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=3959