Monday 16th September 2024
Christie’s buys Gooding & Company
British fine art auction house Christie’s, now in the hands of the French multi-billionaire Pinault family under its Groupe Artémis holding company, has bought Californian-based classic car auctioneers Gooding & Company. The deal, to be completed by the end of 2024, will see high-profile sales...
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Monday 9th September 2024
Bonhams at the 2024 Goodwood Revival
The institution that is the Bond St firm’s annual auction at the world’s premier historic motor racing meeting took place on Saturday afternoon. As always, it was an opportunity to catch up with old friends, take a break from events on the tra...
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Tuesday 3rd September 2024
Gooding at Hampton Court Palace, 30 August 2024: Taking Care Of (Local) Business
Back in 2020 Gooding held their highly anticipated debut auction at the Hampton Court Concours of Elegance just outside London. Just over two weeks ago the family-run Californian specialist auction house grossed “over $108 million” (and counti...
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Wednesday 21st August 2024
2024 Monterey Week auctions – the final reckoning and a comment from Simon
Two days later than usual, the figures are in. As we predicted, post-sale dealing into the early hours meant that the final results of auctions held Wednesday to Saturday were in the balance until late Monday night. We make sense of the numbers.
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Wednesday 21st August 2024
The K500 lowdown on this year’s Monterey sales
The much-predicted ‘changing of the guard’, a reaction to movements in the demographic profile of collectors, did not quite happen during last week’s selling spree on the Monterey Peninsula. After all, a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 was awarded Best...
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Saturday 17th August 2024
The night of the stars? RM closes out the 2024 Monterey Week auctions
RM always keeps its big-ticket lots for Saturday evening in the Portola. Last year, things did not go quite according to plan, so this time everyone was focused on the fortunes of the headlining 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport and 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB C...
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Saturday 17th August 2024
Gooding’s finishing day at Pebble Beach 2024
With no competing auction, the Gooding Saturday-morning sale at Pebble is always a relaxed and enjoyable event, with rarely equalled British auctioneer Charlie Ross in fine form on the rostrum.
Provisional results indicate a one-day figure of...
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