February 13th, 2010
An extremely rare example of Ferrari’s legendary 250 GTO from 1963 is being offered for private treaty sale by RM Auctions.
The car, chassis no. 4675 GT, is one of only 36 250 GTOs originally produced and one of a limited few with Series II GTO bodywork.
“The Ferrari GTO is unquestionably one of the most iconic and coveted cars in the world,” notes Max Girardo, Managing Director of RM Europe.
February 11th, 2010
Watchmaker Hublot and the band Depeche Mode are teaming up to offer you a one-of-a-kind deal.
The two have created twelve unique versions of Hublot’s Big Bang that will be auctioned off for the next two and half weeks.
Throughout the 12 watch designs are album artwork featured in landscape form along the 3 and 9 o’clock parts of the watch.
February 5th, 2010
Alberto Giacometti’s “L’Homme Qui Marche” set a record for the most expensive piece of art ever sold by auction when it was sold on February 3.
The Swiss artist’s characteristic sculpture of an elongated figure in bronze garnered a record-breaking 65 million pounds ($104.3 million) when it went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London.
Prior to the auction the record was held by Spanish cubist Pablo Picasso’s 1906 portrait Garçon à la pipe (”Boy With a Pipe”), according to the Mirror.co.uk.
February 4th, 2010
A Picasso masterpiece unseen in public for 43 years fetched more than twice its expected price at auction - going for £8.1million at last night’s Christie’s sale.
Tete de Femme (Jacqueline), a 1963 portrait of the artist’s second wife, had not been seen in public since 1967 and was expected to fetch £4million.
Jacqueline had an unusually short neck and it is said that Picasso would jokingly exaggerate its size in his portraits - as in this elongated example.
February 2nd, 2010
A half-smoked cigar abandoned by former British prime minister Winston Churchill has sold for more than $7,000.
The cigar was tossed aside by Mr Churchill as he headed to an urgent meeting of his cabinet in 1941, the auction house Keys said.
The 10-centimetre stump was saved by a servant at 10 Downing Street and later given to a friend as a gift. A relative took possession of it after the man died.
January 28th, 2010
A dealer in the Netherlands has this light blue Bugatti Veyron up for sale on Jameslist with a matching Mercedes Atego car transporter for a total of €895,000.
The trailer is even decorated with Bugatti logos, so everyone on the highway will know exactly what you’re towing around.
