Internet

Christie’s first half results for 2012 show that the focus of competition at the top end of the international auction business remains the private sales market and online auctions.

Over 200 items of vintage couture belonging to a former fashion model will be offered at an online auction by CJM Auctioneers on July 25.

Fellows auctioneers are going full circle to make life easier when using their online catalogue.

Christie’s are broadening their range of activity by launching their first online-only sale, Signature Cellars, an auction of fine and rare wines that will be open for bidding from August 6 to 20.

This original poster for the 1948 Olympic Games by Walter Herz (b.1909) will be offered at Onslows’ internet auction of vintage posters on June 29.

LEADING US regional saleroom Skinner are to launch an online-only auction platform.

BUSINESS is really booming when it comes to the world of live online auctions.

THE larger auction houses which have their own in-house live bidding are also seeing online bids becoming increasingly significant to their business.

FOR provincial auctioneers, online bidding has clearly been a massive boon… and even a lifeline.

AUCTION Atrium, the online auction house based in Kensington Church Street, London, has announced that it has ceased trading.

PROFESSIONAL Advisers to the International Art Market (PAIAM) has launched an online directory of professional members.

A NEW live auction platform which will give UK auctioneers direct access to Chinese bidders has been launched in Beijing.

This week sees the launch of Figaro Enchères, a joint venture between ATG Media and French national newspaper Le Figaro.

AN iPhone App has been launched to guide vistors around the galleries, auction houses and museums during Asian Art in London which runs from November 4 to 13.

SOTHEBY’S have launched a retail and online wine business based in New York.

TECHNOLOGY is increasingly important in the art market but a pair of oils by the Anglo-Australian artist William Blamire Young (1862-1935), is believed to be the first significant work identified and consigned to auction through Christie’s iPhone application.

CANTERBURY Auction Galleries are to embark on a new sales format that will double the number of fine sales held annually and offer every lot to a potential worldwide audience of Internet bidders.

ATG’s parent company, ATG Media, has agreed to provide the technology for the first live internet bidding site in Germany.

SINCE the last ATG conference in May 2009, the vision that Nigel Worboys outlined is now a reality, with many businesses following his lead.

AS court proceedings draw closer, Christie’s have upped their long-running damages claim against Artprice from 2m euros to a hefty 63m euros. The auction house originally filed the suit against the French art database in 2008, saying that the reproduction of e-catalogues on their website constitutes copyright and trademark infringement.