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Hong Kong – On 22 May 2025, Christie’s opened Luxury Week in Hong Kong at The Henderson with Iconic Wines from Joseph Lau Part III, which achieved a total of HK$72,890,000 / US$9,349,323 and was 100% sold. The sale drew highly competitive bidding, with nearly 70% of lots sold above high estimate.

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Paris – On 28 May, Christie’s Paris presented a group of 20th-century European works from the Helga and Edzard Reuter Collection. Anticipated with great interest in Germany, Italy and France, the sale achieved 100% of the lots sold with strong international attention from 220 participants for 49 lots.

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New Contemporaries, a leading organisation supporting early career and emerging artists, and Christie’s Private Sales have partnered on a joint exhibition with Christie’s London, 75 Years of New Contemporaries. The selling exhibition will feature works donated by acclaimed contemporary artists, including New Contemporaries alumni, and will run from 19–24 June at Christie’s King Street. An accompanying online exhibition will also be live on christies.com from 12 June to 14 September 2025.

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Christie’s presents Handbags Online: The New York Edit, a curated selection of handbags from Hermès, Chanel, Dior, and more. Leading the sale is an exceptional Rare Sterling Silver Mini Kelly (Estimate: $100,000–200,000).

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Christie’s kicked off Luxury Week on 9 June with Important Watches Featuring Stories in Time: A Collection of Exceptional Watches. The sale realized $11 Million and selling 97% by lot -the top lot which sold to an online buyer, was a signed Patek Philippe, Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater Ref. 3974R, which achieved $1.2 Million.

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Miami Gardens, FL – Bonhams|Cars, in partnership with South Florida Motorsports (SFM), the organisers of the FORMULA 1 CRYPTO.COM MIAMI GRAND PRIX, is proud to present the second annual Miami Auction on Saturday, May 3. Taking place in front of the podium and directly on the track at the Miami International Autodrome, the highly anticipated auction will feature a curated selection of top-tier supercars, a legendary Formula 1 racecar, and historic automobilia.

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New York – Pie a la Mode, 1961 by renowned American painter Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) will headline Bonhams 20th / 21st Century Art Evening Sale this May 14 in New York, after remaining in the same distinguished California collection for over six decades. Widely regarded as one of Thiebaud's most important paintings of the 1960s, Pie a la Mode is a sumptuous marriage of Pop ideology and painterly Realism and is a marker of the inception of Thiebaud's career-defining body of work that both propelled him onto the scene and cemented his enduring artistic significance.

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Chichester, UK – Bonhams|Cars will return to the Goodwood Members' Meeting on 13 April 2025, featuring a diverse selection of vehicles from Pre-War Tourers to modern supercars. This year's auction offers something for every collector.

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Hong Kong — Vietnamese modern art headlined Bonhams' Modernity Curated sale on 31 March in Hong Kong, with new auction records set for Tran Luu Hau and Nguyen Trung — a testament to Bonhams' ongoing role in promoting and shaping the Southeast Asian art market.

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Miami, FL – A 1990 Porsche 911 Classic Turbo stunningly reimagined and restored by Singer Vehicle Designs will cross the auction block during Bonhams|Cars' Miami Auction at the FORMULA 1® CRYPTO.COM MIAMI GRAND PRIX 2025 on May 3. This Singer Classic Turbo, "The Sun Valley Commission," is the very car road and track-tested by famed journalist Chris Harris in his 40-minute film introducing the Turbo Concept. This is the first car to be offered for public sale and is estimated at $1.75 – 2.25 million.

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Hong Kong - Bonhams will present Hong Kong Jewels & Jadeite sale on 22 May. The curated live sale will showcase a notable collection of exquisite designs featuring fancy coloured diamonds and gemstones, an important fancy vivid pink diamond, rubies, sapphires and emeralds from maisons including Boucheron, Bulgari, David Morris, De Grisogono, Harry Winston, Mikimoto, Ronald Abram, Roger Dubuis, and Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Edinburgh – Scottish masterpieces by Samuel John Peploe RSA (British, 1871-1935) lead Bonhams' Scottish Art sale in Edinburgh on 21 May. Roses in a Green Jug, once in the collection of the important Scottish Colourist patron Ion R. Harrison, now comes to auction for the first time, with an estimate of £250,000-350,000.

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Miami, FL – An incredible single-owner collection of 14 highly desirable modern sports cars – all in various shades of orange – will be auctioned by Bonhams|Cars at the FORMULA 1® CRYPTO.COM MIAMI GRAND PRIX 2025 on Saturday May 3. All boasting low mileage and offered at No Reserve, the collection features rare and exclusive examples in this color from Ferrari, Bentley, Aston Martin, and Ford.

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Paris – From an Athenian collection, Soldat dansant le zeibekiko by Yiannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989), dated 1966-68, leads Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr Greek Sale in Paris on Wednesday 21 May. This triumphant example of Tsarouchis' art is estimated at €300,000-500,000.

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London – Mickey Snake, 2015, by the illusive Street artist Banksy was the top lot of Bonhams British. Cool. sale, achieving £330,600 against a pre-sale estimate of £150,000 - 200,000. The sculpture, featuring the outline of the famous cartoon mouse inside a snake, was from the same edition as the version shown at Banksy's Dismaland in 2015.

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Paris – Following the outstanding results of the "100 years of Surrealism" sale in Paris last year, Bonhams is delighted to host a sale dedicated to Surrealism on Wednesday 30 April 2025 in Paris.

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Los Angeles – Bonhams presents California Jewels on March 11, a live auction showcasing an abundance of vibrant gemstones and exquisite designs. The sale features an exceptional selection of diamonds, fancy-colored diamonds, and a captivating array of emeralds, rubies, and sapphires. Spanning various eras, from antique and Art Deco masterpieces to elegant mid-century creations, the collection includes pieces from renowned maisons such as Bulgari, Cartier, Chopard, Graff, Harry Winston, Marina B, Marcus & Co., Maramenos & Pateras, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels.

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London – Major works by Gerard Sekoto and Ben Enwonwu smashed estimates today at Bonhams' Modern & Contemporary African Art sale in London. The top lot was Gerard Sekoto's The Artist's Brother, which achieved £406,000, 4 times its estimate of £100,000-150,000. Two works by Ben Enwonwu also achieved top results, with Agbogho Mmuo selling for £242,000 and Dance Movement for £191,000.

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London – Myrrh by Bridget Riley (B. 1931) was the top lot at Bonhams 20th/21st Century Art Evening sale yesterday (2 April) at New Bond Street, London. The work, painted in 1985, achieved £1,802,900.The 15-lot sale made a total of £4,309,650, with 93% sold by lot and 99% sold by value.

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Paris - Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will offer a selection of exceptional Belgian paintings from long-established collections in the Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Wednesday 4 June 2025. These six paintings will be exceptionally exhibited at Maison Hannon in Brussels on 14 & 15 May 2025 and in Amsterdam on 21 & 22 May 2025.

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London – A rare work by Egyptian artist Gazbia Sirry (1925-2021) leads Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale on 21 May at New Bond Street, London. Painted in 1951, A Woman with Water Pots was exhibited at Sirry's first landmark solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo and is the earliest work by the artist ever to come to auction. It has an estimate of £170,000-200,000.

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Stafford, UK – On 26-27 April, Bonhams|Cars ma Motorcycle Department presented a showing at its annual Spring Stafford Sale, held at the renowned International Classic MotorCycle Show, in Staffordshire County Showground, UK. With an incredible breadth of over 250 motorcycles, spanning a century of innovation, the two-day sale, which offered nearly 100 lots Without Reserve, achieved £3,193,000 total.

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Paris – Piazza d'Italia painted in 1959 by Giorgio de Chirico achieved €381,400 at Bonhams' Surrealism Sale yesterday (Wednesday 30 March 2025) in Paris. The work had a pre-sale estimate of €220,000 - €280,000 and was one of the highlights of the sale. Vestali e tempietti in riva al mare, work on paper executed in the late 1930 also by Chirico, which came from an Italian private collection, sold for €30,720, against an estimate of €7,000 to 9,000.

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Hong Kong—A rare and profound painting, General Manager's Chair in an Abandoned Building (1996), by Japanese contemporary artist Tetsuya Ishida will headline Bonhams Hong Kong Modern & Contemporary Art Sale on 25 May. Estimated at HK$5,000,000 – 8,000,000, the work comes to auction following Bonhams' record-breaking sale of Ishida's The Men on a Belt Conveyor for HK$10 million last December.

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New York – Bonhams concluded its 20th / 21st Century Art Week with a total of $13.5 million, showcasing a curated selection of works that attracted bidding across 27 countries. The Evening Sale featured a work by Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) that garnered strong interest. East Hampton VII, an oil on paper from 1968 – a pivotal period in the artist's career – achieved $1,080,000.

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Orpheus (Maquette I) by Dame Barbara Hepworth (British, 1903-1975) leads Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale on 18 June at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The work has an estimate of £400,000 - 600,000.

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NEW YORK – Christie’s Luxury Week Handbags Online: The New York Edit on Thursday achieved $3.5 Million selling 97% by lot and 156% against the low estimate. Throughout the sale, seven lots sold for more than $100,000.

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NEW YORK – On Friday June 14th, Christie’s concluded Luxury Week, a series of six live and online auctions for Jewelry, Watches, Wine, and Handbags. The sales overall totaled $70.3 Million selling 137% of the pre-sale low estimate. There were notably high sell-through rates, averaging over 94% per lot. The live auctions also experienced significant online engagement, with 52% of winning bids placed via Christie’s Live.

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NEW YORK – Christie’s concluded a series of six live Spring Marquee Week auctions on Saturday, May 18, 2024 with two days of Day Sales totaling $112.1 million, bringing the week’s total to more than $640 million. Christie’s saw strong bidding and buying globally across all six of the week’s sales, with active participation from clients in the room, on the phones, and online. In total, the sales were 86% sold by lot and 94% sold by value with 89% of lots selling within or above expectations.

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London – Christie’s presented René Magritte's L'ami intime (The Intimate Friend) as the leading highlight of The Art of The Surreal Evening Sale in London on 7 March. Presented to coincide with the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, penned by André Breton in October 1924, the painting appeared at auction for the first time since 1980 and achieved a 33m GBP sales price (with buyer's premium).

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April 23 - In the Hong Kong Important Watches Sale, Sotheby’s presented a timepiece from the SPYMASTER series, the first watch series accompanied by NFTs - unique cryptographic tokens which provide an immutable record of the provenance of each watch on the blockchain.