Saturday, July 29 will be a Red Letter Day for fans of Art Deco sculpture, when two of the movements leading lights offer work in two separate sales on Bidsquare! Cowans Auctions Fine & Decorative Art sale will feature a stunning piece by Romanian Demétre Chiparus, while over at Antique Place, Must see Auction Number 8, Chiparus will be joined by German Ferdinand Preiss, who has a number of finely crafted pieces selling. Art Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. It was hugely influential, shaping the design of buildings, furniture, jewellery, fashion, cars, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. Most of the sculpture of the Art Deco period was, as the name suggests, purely decorative; it was designed not for museums, but to ornam...Read More

The gavel comes crashing down like thunder through the mountains. Some say lightning cant strike the same place twice, but that isnt true - it can and it will - 317 more times. On July 29th, The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction will be rolling out west to hold their 32nd Annual Fine Western & American auction at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno. The catalog will offer 317 lots and is expected to continue breaking records as the leader in the most important event for Western art collectors. Online bidding will only be available exclusively through Bidsquare.  With over $230,000,000 in sales over the past ten years, it is clear that The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction has manifested their own market for Fine Western connoisseurship. Fleets of private jets will touch down on "The Biggest Little City in the World," - importing bidders that are ready to loop ...Read More

In the exhibition and collection catalogue Bridge of Dreams, published in conjunction with the 2000 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Masterpieces of Japanese Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Burke credits her mother, Mary Livingston Griggs, for developing her astute eye and passion for collecting. Livingston Griggs raised the family in her St. Paul, Minnesota childhood home and filled it with old master paintings and European furniture collected from her travels. In 1968, Mary Griggs Burke bequeathed the home to the Minnesota Historical Society as a museum. Our upcoming Fine Furniture, Decorative Arts and Silver auction will feature a collection of works from the Burbank-Livingston-Griggs House.   Of her childhood home, Mary Griggs Burke wrote, “Throughout mother’s life she found much pleasure in collecting antiques, which on a large ...Read More

Computer monitors, across the country, were lighting up blue. Passionate mouse clicks from Bidsquare drove over 1.3 million dollars in bids during James D. Julia Auctioneers, Extraordinary Rare Lamps, Glass & Fine Jewelry Auction on June 16th with a total of $306,100 winning bids against the crowded floor. In what is being regarded as one of the most important Tiffany auctions in the past 25 years, online bidders appear to have sent a high voltage signal of, we are here for the auction market to see.   James D. Julia set a new division record grossing a total of 4.3 million dollars as well as breaking item based records; this was no exception for Bidsquare. Tiffany topped our roster in the form of an $86,800.00 Lotus Table Lamp - an iconic design that now graces our records. We decided to reach back out to Mike Fredericks, Department Head i...Read More

When it comes to historys great monachs, Frances King Louis XV is not held in particularly high regard. Succeeding his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five and ruling till his death in May 1774, Louis XV was described by Princeton historian Jerome Blum as "a perpetual adolescent called to do a mans job." Many scholars believe that Louis XV damaged the power of France, weakened the treasury, discredited the absolute monarchy, and made it more vulnerable to distrust and destruction. No surprise then that the French Revolution broke out just 15 years after his passing. But Louis had style, and French culture and influence were at their height during his reign. Louis XV style or Louis Quinze was characterized by supreme craftsmanship and the integration of the arts of painting, cabinetmaking and sculpture. Furniture of the period typi...Read More

Everything tastes better with freedom on top. As Americans prepare to celebrate 241 years of Independence from the British Empire, we ‘the people’ will joyfully decorate hot dogs, cannonball into pools, ignite explosives, jar lightening bugs and battle on baseball fields. Festivities that are owed to the fierce revolutionaries and pen welding intellectuals who declared it so - on this day, July 4th 1776.  Lot 24, Harry Jackson, The Flag Bearer, Bronze; Estimate $25,000 - $35,000 A hard gallop, hove to heel with stars and stripes at the helm. Harry Jackson, a true romantic for the wild hearted American West, will be represented in The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Fine Western & American Art sale on July 29th. Several sculptures by the prominent realist artist known for his paintings and bronze sculptures of cowboys and Indians forcefully showc...Read More

In 2015, the annual Bidsquare Cares holiday charity auction raised funds for charity:water to bring clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries. Below wed like to share an update from charity:water on how the funds raised are going to use. Whats happening now? The projects we are helping fund in Tigray, the northernmost region of Ethiopia, are underway. Currently, more than 5 million people live there and less than half of them have access to clean and safe drinking water. But thanks to your help, charity:water is working to change that! Charity:waters partner, the Relief Society of Tigray (REST), has already constructed 223 new projects through the grant the Bidsquare Cares charity auction helped fund. Now they are hard at work forming local Water Committees and training them on water point maintenance, financial managemen...Read More

The Packard Motor Company was built off the back of a snub James Ward Parckard received from Alexander Winton, owner of the Winton Motor Carriage Company. A mechanical engineer, James offered suggestions that he believed would drastically improve Wintons cars, was ignored, then decided to build his own. He partnered with his brother William, Winton shareholder George Lewis Weiss, and got to work. Packards first car was completed on November 6, 1899, and within four years over 400 had been built in their Warren, Ohio factory. During that time, Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroits oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he visited the Packards and soon enlisted a group of investors and formed the Packard Motor Car Company, with James Packard as president. Packard moved operations to Detroit soo...Read More

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones legendary guitarist, Keith Richards and wife Patti Hansen are unbuttoning their crushed velvet, gold and leather...antique and fine art collection. Stair Galleries, The Collection of Keith & Patti Richards and Various Owners auction on June 24th will be offering property from the couples Manhattan apartment as well as a small selection from their Connecticut home. Hand picked by Patti and interior designer Carol Perry, the richly romantic, Upper East Side apartment boasts European furnishings, artworks and ornate objects from Italy, England and France. When it comes to rock royalty, this catalog is everything you want it to be, the Richards even ash their cigarettes in Venetian glass ashtrays (of course). Image: Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones with wife Patti Hansen; Lynn Goldsmith/CORBIS All proc...Read More

Bidders can take a musical trip down memory lane on Saturday, July 1 when Antique Place holds their Great Independence Week auction. The sale contains over 340 lots that include art glass, porcelain, Asian art, sculpture and more, with an overriding feel here of nostalgia for a time long past, when things were simpler, plastic didnt exist, and peoples idea of technological advancement was a well paved road. Nothing holds truer to this notion than the five silver singing-bird boxes being sold here back-to-back. With their quaint mechanism and detailed old-world finish, they possess an innocence and charm that is almost mesmerizing, especially when placed beside the assorted Apple products that litter a 21st Century bedroom. Of the five lots on offer, Lot 41 - a silver mechanical double singing bird box, is considered the pick, and the one mo...Read More