The 1954 William Dargie Portrait of H.M. Elizabeth II will go on sale at Bonhams Australian and International Fine Art Sale in Melbourne on 6th May, where it is expected to fetch between £25,000-35,000.
William Dargie’s original portrait of the sovereign in her ‘wattle’ dress soon became Australia’s most reproduced and famous painting. Colour prints were [...]

Sotheby’s New York spring sale of African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art will be held on May 15, 2009, and will offer collectors a selection of tribal arts from important American and international private collections. The sale will comprise an especially rich offering of Oceanic works of art, several of which are the best of [...]

The Ex-Maharajah of Bharatpur and Robert Gove’s 1931 Horch Cabriolet to Headline Auction on Sunday 3 May 2009
This fascinating car was presented to to Robert Gove of Victoria from the Maharajah of Bharatpur in the 1930s in exchange for horses. The Gove family had supplied the Maharajahs with fine horses of all kinds – [...]

Bonhams and Goodman next Bay East Antiques & Interiors auction on 19 April 2009 at 11am sees a return to the regular monthly format featuring the broadest possible range of furniture and decorative arts, entirely from private collections.
Highlights include a good selection of Baccarat and Lalique glass, Dutch and English silver, fine English porcelain, Art [...]

As Earth Day approaches on April 22, largest and most established eBay alternative, eBid.net is encouraging members to clear out their closets and recycle unwanted clothes via its site to hundreds of thousands of eager buyers of second hand items.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, landfills in the United States receive about 20 billion [...]

The Bonhams & Goodman auction saleroom in Sydney was a hive of activity on April 6th for the first Fine Jewellery auction of 2009. The 680 lot sale, which included an Affordable Jewellery auction in the afternoon followed by Fine Jewellery in the evening, featured a beautiful array of fine diamond and precious stones.
The highlights [...]

One of Frederick McCubbin’s most significant paintings remaining in private ownership will be auctioned at Bonhams & Goodman’s Australian and International Fine Art auction on 6 May 2009.
Frederick McCubbin remains one of Australia’s most beloved and revered artists, whose later landscapes – with their radical palette-knife technique of broken pure colour – represent a tour-de-force [...]