Auction
Auction is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 12 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2024.
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22:23Auction
During a New York heatwave, global bidders converge as Basquiat's works hit Christie's and Sotheby's. Sotheby's leads with 'Untitled', unseen for 30 years, poised to break records over $100 million.
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21:53After JFK's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy sought comfort in David Ormsby-Gore. Their intimate letters found 50 years later, reveal a poignant love story ending with her rejecting his proposal.
22:08You will need twelve to eighteen million pounds to bid for Ta Fare, a painting from Paul Gauguin's second and final visit to Tahiti at a sale of Impressionism at Christie's.
22:23Impressionist and Modern paintings for auction at Sotheby's include a masterpiece by Gustav Klimt which is so expensive that no estimate has been published in the catalogue.
21:30What’s in a name? At Bonham's, specialist Charlie O'Brien has chosen a painting by a little known American artist as the cover lot in a sale of 19th century paintings.
22:00He was a genius among watchmakers, the timepieces made by Thomas Tompion come to auction at Sotheby's, part of one of the biggest private collections of watches ever to cover to the market.
21:37After all these years the fascination with Old Masters continues and at Christie's they are selling a masterpiece by the Belgian painter Jacob Jordaens which may fetch over a million pounds.
22:00To coincide with the annual London to Brighton rally, Bonham's are auctioning ten cars that tell the story of early British motoring.
21:12Sotheby's are selling the little known art collection of rock legend David Bowie in an auction which has attracted huge interest, 50,000 people attend the preview days.
21:15A rare portrait of two young brothers by Titian is the highlight of an Old Masters sale at Sotheby's. It comes from a collection amassed by the banker Sir William Forbes in the nineteenth century.
22:14A sculpture by Henry Moore, a rare work by Henry Nichsolson and a set of paintings by English artists collected by a friend of James Bond creator Ian Fleming come to auction at Christie's.
21:38A new season of Auction sees everything from the private art collection of David Bowie to veteran cars going under the hammer.