Auction Central News

Auction Central News (ACN) is a leading online platform based in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, dedicated to delivering the latest updates and specialized insights related to the fine art, antiques, and auction industry. Launched in 2007 by LiveAuctioneers, ACN serves the online bidding community by offering a comprehensive collection of authoritative articles, interviews with industry experts, recent auction results, and previews of upcoming events. Over the years, it has published more than 14,000 articles catering to collectors and enthusiasts from all over the globe. ACN boasts a talented team of journalists and columnists located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. The editorial team is headed by Catherine Saunders-Watson, an accomplished journalist, author, and PR expert with a remarkable 25-year background in arts media. What sets Auction Central News apart from other digital news platforms in the auction sector is its commitment to providing timely updates. Readers can access a continuous flow of news, columns, images, and videos sourced from top wire services like the Associated Press and Agence France Presse. ACN also values contributions from the community, inviting press releases and news tips from auctioneers, PR agencies, dealers, and collectors. Followers can stay informed through social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as through the ACN Daily Headlines newsletter, which is available for free to subscribers. Additionally, ACN features Style Century Magazine, a unique section that offers high-quality articles about designers, art, and antiques appealing to contemporary collectors. This section is akin to the Sunday magazine of a global newspaper, providing a fresh and engaging mix of topics that is accessible online at any time.

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Mariano Fortuny: freeing fashion for women

Oct 23, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Andrea Valluzzo

NEW YORK — Fashion styles evolve and garments can easily look dated with certain trends easily recognizable as hailing from a particular era. Think bulky shoulder pads from the 1980s, bell bottoms in the 70s or the Mod aesthetic that sprang up in the 60s. Rare is the designer who can pull off a timeless piece that looks good on most women’s bodies and never looks out of style.
Meccano Magician robot store display, choice 1930s prints by Eduard Wiiralt make our Results Roundup for October 19

Oct 18, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Roland Arkell

PORTSMOUTH, NH – The September 21 sale at Bray & Co included a circa-1950 Meccano store display dubbed the Magician. This 2ft 4in (70cm) high model is fashioned in characteristic red and green parts as a robot which, assisted by an electric motor, waves a wand and performs a card trick with a Jack of Hearts it hides behind a shield. The base reads ‘Meccano Engineering for Boys’. This model is well known to collectors.
Line Vautrin’s Mirrors reflect the Frenchwoman's genius

Oct 15, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Andrea Valluzzo

NEW YORK — Dubbed the poetess of metal, Line Vautrin (1913-1997; pronounced ‘Leen Voh-TRAHN’) was trained by her father as a metalsmith and opened her first shop in Paris at age 21. Despite the Great Depression, demand was swift in the early 1930s for her pioneering gilt-bronze objects, noted for their intricacy and artistry. Her wonderfully detailed bronze buttons, jewelry boxes, and compacts also had a pleasing sense of whimsy. Her greatest legacy, however, had little to do with metal.
Vladimir Kagan: timeless modernity

Oct 14, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Andrea Valluzzo

NEW YORK — Throughout his decades-long career, designer Vladimir Kagan (1927-2016) had one mission: to create furniture there was not something simply to sit in or at but, in his words, to be “vessels to hold the human body.” Paying attention to the function of a piece of furniture as well as how materials could be used to achieve beauty, he designed furniture noted for being comfortable as well as visually striking.
Former Magnum Photos president's collection heads to Auctions at Showplace October 23

Oct 12, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Jim Bunte

NEW YORK — Though not a household name like Annie Liebovitz or other 20th-century icons of art photography, Charles Harbutt (1935-2015) was a dominant force in helping shape photography into a respected form of artistic expression by serving as president of Magnum Photos.
Circa-1920s Missouri Jewelite ‘Modern Cabins’ sign leads our five lots to watch

Oct 10, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Jim Bunte

LAS VEGAS — Missouri Jewelite was a dominant player in the commercial neon and porcelain sign business from the early-1920s dawn of neon forward. It created millions of signs from its small, two-story location on 3562 Market Street at the southeast corner of what was then Market and Grand Boulevard. (Today, it is dwarfed by an elevated segment of Interstate 40 but survives as a warehouse, resplendent in its Art Deco exterior, however dirty and neglected).
Postwar Union Pacific and Santa Fe passenger car art comes to Rail & Road October 17-18

Oct 9, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Jim Bunte

LAFAYETTE, IN — Two lots representing the pinnacle of post-World War II American passenger rail travel and its artistic luxury come to market Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at Rail & Road Auctions. The sale’s highest-estimated lot is a single-sided porcelain sign depicting an Old West rider on a galloping horse.
Scottish paintings deaccessed from Paisley Art Institute achieve almost $1.5M at Lyon & Turnbull

Oct 8, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Roland Arkell

EDINBURGH, UK – A selection of 96 paintings from the collection of the Paisley Art Institute in Paisley, Scotland sold for a hammer total of £1.1 million ($1.475 million) at Lyon & Turnbull on the evening of September 26. Full results can be seen at LiveAuctioneers. Just under a quarter of the institute’s historical holdings were deaccessioned in the Edinburgh sale titled A Taste for Art: Selected Works from The Paisley Art Institute Collection.
Miniature George III silver and oak 'jolly boat', after 50 years off the market, surfaces at Doyle October 16

Oct 8, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Roland Arkell

NEW YORK — A presentation ship model, made to commemorate what Nelson called his ‘hardest fought battle’, will be offered at Doyle New York on Wednesday, October 16. The miniature George III silver, plated, and oak wood jolly boat, last sold by a London dealer more than half a century ago, appears with an estimate of $3,000-$5,000 as part of a sale devoted to English and continental European art and antiques. The full catalog is open for review and bidding at LiveAuctioneers.
Vintage Rock-Ola jukeboxes keep the music playing

Oct 8, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Andrea Valluzzo

The standout among Rock-Ola jukeboxes was the President, aka model 1414, which was lavishly appointed and colored. It’s such a scarce model that collectors and sellers have been known to scavenge parts from one to put in another. A Rock-Ola jukebox appearing to be a President, which attained $25,000 plus the buyer’s premium at Dan Morphy Auctions in November 2019, was probably a Commando modified to look like a President, according to the auctioneer’s catalog notes.