Antiques and the Arts
Across The Block
Among the notable sales this week, a series of bronze sculptures by William Kentridge stand out, selling for $330,000 at Bonhams’ postwar and contemporary sale. In wood, an oak newel post carved with a heraldic dragon from the William H Stokes collection sold for $12,355, outdoing the of $2/3,300 estimate. For the toy lovers in all of us, a Chein “Dan-Dee” skid truck in colorful paint drove bidding to $776. Fine art highlighted this week include works by Pablo Picasso and Leland Curtis. Civil war photos, an exceptional Qur’an and a Cartier watch round out the standings in this week’s “Across The Block.”
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Collection & Gallery Of Alain Morvan Antiquitäten Triumphs At Bonhams
LONDON – The sale of the private collection of Alain Morvan, together with the contents of his Munich antiques gallery, made $1.1 million at Bonhams on March 6. A total of 97 percent of the pieces found new owners. Highlights included a pair of restoration patinated and gilt-bronze candelabra that sold for $21,500. Said Bonhams senior representative in Germany Thomas Kamm, “We were confident that this would be a strong sale, but it exceeded our expectations. Alain Morvan was a well-known antiques dealer in Munich and further afield for more than 50 years, and we had bidders from more than 30 countries in the room, on the phone and on the internet. Thanks to some very competitive bidding, most lots sold for many times their estimates