UNIQUE TYPE 55 IS MOST VALUABLE AUCTION LOT SOLD DURING RETROMOBILE WEEK A magnificent 1932 Bugatti Type 55 Roadster– one of the most important sports cars of Bugatti’s golden era – was the star lot in the Bonhams Grand Palais Sale, selling…
BUGATTIS HOLD COURT AT BONHAMS GRAND PALAIS SALE
Seven magnificent vintage and historic Bugattis lead Bonhams’ ‘Les Grandes Marques du Monde’ Sale at the Grand Palais, Paris, which opens the international auction house’s European calendar on 6 February. The septet represent the golden age of French and indeed…
SHACKLETON EXPEDITION IMAGES – BONHAMS SALE LONDON
Sir Ernest Shackleton: His Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917 is remembered as one of the great feats of human daring and valour. Attempting to sail across the Weddell Sea, the expedition ship Endurance became trapped in pack ice, eventually disintegrating in October…
Bonhams Goodwood Revival Sale 2018 – Shelby Cobra, Mercedes 300SL
Bonhams Goodwood Revival Auction held in September 2018. The star of the sale was undoubtedly the Shelby Cobra Competition Roadster. Photographs by Marcia White for Join The World. Lot 255 the 1957 Mercedes Benz 300SL Roadster Created to spearhead…
Bonhams Auction Goodwood Festival of Speed McLaren P1 Alfa Romeo
Bonhams presented a fine selection of Important Collectors Motor Cars and Automobilia at their recent Goodwood Festival of Speed Auction. From the modern McLaren P1 supercar to the historical Alfa Romeo Tipo B. McLaren P1 and Aston Martin DB5 Sports…
Bonhams Auction Collectors Motor Cars, Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017
As usual, Bonhams presented us with an exciting collection of classic and sports cars, covering various periods in motoring history, at their Goodwood Festival of Speed Auction. Beautiful Bugatti at Bonhams Bugatti’s ‘piece de resistance’ for 1929, was not a…
Bonhams Goodwood Revival Sale & Bond Street Sale
Bonhams Goodwood Revival Sale September 2016 A spectacular selection of collectors motor cars and automobilia was offered for sale by Bonhams at their Goodwood Revival Auction. Ford GT Coupe Lot 167 – The 2005 GT40 Concept car, first owned by…
Bonhams Space History Sale New York – Sputnik Model, Legendary Space Suit
WE HAVE LIFT OFF: BONHAMS SPACE HISTORY SALE ACHIEVES STRATOSPHERIC RESULT A lab model for the first Sputnik, a legendary space suit and a signed relic from first mission to moon all rocket past their estimates A full-scale vintage lab model of the…
Bonhams Auction – Goodwood Festival of Speed – Peter Blake Bentley
The stunning Bentley and Peter Blake collaboration made a big impact at Bonhams 2016 Festival of Speed Auction. The world’s first and only British Pop Art Bentley. Hand-built by Bentley’s Mulliner division to a unique design by British Pop Art…
1954 Aston Martin DB3S: Car of the Silver Screen
THE 1954 ASTON MARTIN DB3S: CAR OF THE SILVER SCREEN RACED BY THE GREAT STIRLING MOSS, NOW OFFERED AT BONHAMS A rare Aston Martin Works team car – chassis number DB3S/5 – which was campaigned in period by such legendary…
SAPPHIRES SOAR AS THEY BECOME THE MUST-HAVE GEM
SAPPHIRES SOAR AS THEY BECOME THE MUST-HAVE GEM FOR 2016 ACCORDING TO BONHAMS Top: a ring set with a cabochon-cut Kashmir sapphire, 7.13 carats, estimated at £50,000 to £70,000. Below: A fine pink sapphire set in a Cartier…
BONHAMS COMMENCE MOTORING AUCTIONS WITH IMPRESSIVE GRAND PALAIS SALE
BONHAMS COMMENCE EUROPEAN MOTORING AUCTIONS WITH IMPRESSIVE GRAND PALAIS SALE Bonhams commence European motoring auctions for 2016 with an impressive variety of incredible collectors’ motor cars at Grand Palais Leading the charge, the 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB, sold to a…
ROYAL JEWELS AND RARE GEMS ACHIEVE TOP PRICES AT FINE JEWELLERY SALE
FINE JEWELLERY SALE AT BONHAMS LONDON ROYAL JEWELS AND RARE GEMS ACHIEVE TOP PRICES Bonhams jewellery sale sets three new world records Christmas has come early for a number of lucky bidders following Bonhams London’s last Fine Jewellery sale of…
JAGGER SETS WORLD RECORD AT BONHAMS MODERN ART SALE
THE OTHER JAGGER SETS WORLD RECORD AT BONHAMS MODERN ART SALE The Conscientious Objector, by David Jagger, sold for £115,300 The Conscientious Objector, a painting by David Jagger, sold for more than 23 times its pre-sale estimate of £5,000-8,000 at…
NEW WAY TO SHOP BONHAMS’ HOME & INTERIORS SALE
THE NEW WAY TO SHOP BONHAMS’ FIRST HOME AND INTERIORS SALE L-R: An impressive Syrian mother-of-pearl, bone and ebonised parquetry inlaid hardwood kneehole desk, estimate £3,000-5,000; An Italian pink chandelier in the manner of Venini, estimate £1,500-2,000; A French…
A Kiss by Russian master Pavel Aleksandrovich Svedomsky
SVEDOMSKY’S ‘A KISS’ LEADS BONHAMS’ RUSSIAN SALE Pavel Aleksandrovich Svedomsky, A Kiss; estimate £80,000 – 120,0000 A Kiss, one of the finest works by Russian master Pavel Aleksandrovich Svedomsky (1848 – 1904), will lead The Russian Sale…
GILT-BRONZE BUDDHA FIGURES LEAD BONHAMS’ CHINESE ART SALE IN LONDON
EXCEPTIONAL BUDDHIST GILT-BRONZE FIGURES LEAD BONHAMS’ FINE CHINESE ART SALE IN LONDON including a rare and large gilt-lacquered wood figure of Buddha, estimate £90,000 – 120,000. Bonhams will offer a range of carefully selected Chinese ceramics and works of art including jades,…
ENIGMATIC MASTER’S FINEST WORK: Francesco Zanin
ENIGMATIC MASTER’S FINEST WORK ON OFFER AT BONHAMS’ 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN PAINTINGS SALE: Francesco Zanin Francesco Zanin, The Piazza San Marco, Venice, in the early hours of the last evening of carnival; estimate US$100,000 – 150,000 Francesco Zanin’s dramatic…