Bonhams
Bonhams is an auction house with headquarters in the UK. It operates two London salerooms as well as others in Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
In 2000, Bonhams was merged with Brooks, a specialist Classic Car auctioneer, and Phillips Son & Neale not long after. US auctioneers Butterfields joined the group in 2002.
In September 2018, chairman Robert Brooks stepped down after selling the company to private equity group Epiris. In 2022, the firm went on a buying spree purchasing US auction house Skinner, Swedish saleroom Bukowskis, Danish saleroom Bruun Rasmussen and then French outfit Cornette de Saint Cyr.
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Funny felines stand up and deliver Louis Wain record
15 May 2023Has the film 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' raised demand for the artist?
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Alma-Tadema’s friends put on a panel show at his house
15 May 2023Six of the 45 distinctive designs from the artist’s spectacular London villa emerge at auction
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Pocket watch expert’s exceptional collection catches the eye at Bonhams
15 May 2023Some exceptional pocket watches were offered for sale at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on May 11.
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Big price for miniature work at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr
08 May 2023The first 90 or so lots in Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr’s (27.5/26/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) sale of Islamic and Indian Art held in Paris on April 6 were the property of a Royal collection.
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Recreational maths: Handwritten Alan Turing document sold at Bonhams
08 May 2023When the Bletchley Park boffins were taking a break from code-breaking in the Second World War, complicated puzzles were one of the diversions.
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The polar market explored
08 May 2023Now hugely popular, this collecting field actually took many years to get going
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Bannermen set to fly high at auction
01 May 2023Bonhams’ flagship sale of Fine Chinese Art in Bond Street on May 18 includes a rare Qianlong period ink on silk court painting.
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Transitional vase decorated with scene from literary epic
01 May 2023This 16in (41cm) blue and white sleeve vase from the Transitional period is on offer at the Bonhams Knightsbridge sale titled Asian Art on May 15.
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Japanese desk and box could be the write stuff to buy
01 May 2023Bonhams is conducting a sale on May 18 titled Samurai Beauties and Townsmen: Japanese Art in Peace and War.
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Millet drawing part of Alain Delon sale
24 April 2023This charcoal drawing of a Normandy milkmaid is one of four works by Jean-François Millet (1814-75) to be included in Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr’s Paris sale of the collection of Alain Delon
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European Art: Freshness and pitch combine to create market bright spots
24 April 2023While demand for 19th century European art remains selective, recent sales have enjoyed good bidding on the ‘right’ material with appealing estimates
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Industry news: Artcurial expands into Switzerland and a new Edinburgh saleroom for Bonhams
20 April 2023A round up of industry news including French auction house Artcurial buying Swiss firm Beurret Bailly Widmer Auktionen.
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Dealers go to auction as the trade adapts to a new business landscape
17 April 2023A spate of businesses taking stock and personal collections to the saleroom reflects wider changes in the market
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Alain Delon art collection comes to Paris auction
12 April 2023Paintings, drawings and sculptures belonging to Alain Delon will be offered for sale at auction in Paris in June by Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr.
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Flight’s pride in family porcelain connection
10 April 2023The Collections sale at Bonhams (27.5% buyer’s premium) in London on March 21 included more than 70 lots of Regency porcelain from the collection of the Conservative party politician Howard Emerson Flight.
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JJ Lally & Co lots span 5000 years of Chinese history
06 March 2023Bonhams will offer two single-owner collections as part of its programme for Asia Week New York.
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Christopher Dresser: ‘I propose three feet formed as to serve as handles’
06 March 2023Dr Christopher Dresser’s conical sugar bowl with three angled leg-like supports is one of the great ‘eureka’ moments in Victorian design.
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Furniture heads overseas from Northumberland
06 March 2023Paintings dominated the sale of contents of Meldon Park, Northumberland, but furniture going abroad also made a significant contribution.
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Auction marks end of an era for textiles dealer Peta Smyth
27 February 2023Peta Smyth has been dealing in antique textiles since 1976 and her shop at 42 Moreton Street in Pimlico, west London, is renowned for its extensive array of fine textiles, attracting a loyal and diverse clientele of interior designers, antiques dealers and collectors.
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Deep pockets for the Fifty Fathoms
27 February 2023The Fifty Fathoms watch was born in the 1950s from the encounter between the Swiss firm Blancpain (by then using the legal trading name Rayville) and two French naval officers, Capt Robert Maloubier and Lt Claude Riffaud.
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