Welcome to ArtBusinessDirectory.com - Top 10 Links in Auctions Auctions http://artbusinessdirectory.com/%cat_tags%/ en-us Christies Christie's is an art business and a fine arts auction house, currently the world's largest and the world?s leading art auction houses. Their global sales total more than $5 billion per year. The Christie?s name stands for top-of-the-line art, impeccable service, and glamour. Christie?s has been conducting auctions since 1766. Christie?s is a name and place that speaks of extraordinary art, unparalleled service and expertise. <BR><BR> Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie's conducted the greatest auctions of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and today remains a popular showcase for the unique and the beautiful. Christie?s offers over 450 sales annually in over 80 categories, including all areas of fine and decorative arts, jewelry, photographs, collectibles, wine, and more. Prices range from $200 to over $80 million. <BR><BR> Christie?s has 53 offices in 32 countries and 10 salerooms around the world including in London, New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Dubai and Hong Kong. Christie's also offers its clients worldwide access to its sales through Christie's LIVE?, its unique, real-time online bidding service. <BR><BR> <BR><BR> <iframe width="448" height="252" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/MBhRgT99h9I?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> http://www.christies.com 400.00 Sotheby?s Sotheby?s was founded in London on March 11, 1744, when Samuel Baker auctioned ?several Hundred scarce and valuable books? from the library of the Rt Hon Sir John Stanley for a few hundred pounds. The story of Sotheby?s expansion beyond books to include the best in fine and decorative arts and jewellery is also the story of the global auction market, defined by extraordinary moments that continue to capture the world?s attention. <BR><BR> Our auctions, conducted in the venerable salerooms in London and Paris, the museum-quality galleries of our headquarters in New York and the spirited environs of Hong Kong rivet audiences worldwide. Season after season, the depth and excellence of Sotheby?s offerings have produced watershed, record-breaking sales. Sotheby?s has been entrusted with the sale of many of the world's treasures, amongst them: Napoleon?s St Helena library, the Duchess of Windsor?s jewels, the Estate of Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rembrandt?s Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, Rubens? Massacre of the Innocents, Picasso?s Gar?on ? la Pipe, Bacon?s Triptych, 1976, The Grand Ducal Collections of Baden, the Qianlong Yellow-Ground Famille-Rose Double-Gourd Vase, the 5,000-year-old Guennol Lioness, the Magna Carta, the first printing of the Declaration of Independence and The Martin Luther King Jr Collection. <BR><BR> Today Sotherby's maintains 90 locations in 40 countries and we conduct 250 auctions each year in over 70 categories. Through BidNow, clients can also watch all Sotheby?s auctions live online and place bids in real time, from anywhere in the world. And through the ever-enriching content on Sothebys.com, the oldest publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (BID) continues to be fresh and current, while always mindful of its historic roots. An unwavering commitment to the very highest level of quality remains the goal of one of the most storied names on the global business stage. <BR><BR> <BR><BR> <iframe width="448" height="252" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/S8orJEWKhao" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> http://www.sothebys.com/en.html 400.00 Bonhams <BR> Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. The Bonhams name is recognized worldwide throughout all sectors of the fine art, antiques and collectors market, with several of its departments established world leaders within their specialist category. <BR><BR> The present company was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought together two of the four surviving Georgian auction houses in London, Bonhams having been founded in 1793, and Phillips in 1796 by Harry Phillips, formerly a senior clerk to James Christie. Today the amalgamated business handles fine art and antiques in more than 60 specialist collecting areas. The firm has continued to grow and change since the merger in 2001. The last ten years have been among the most dramatic and fast-growing in its history. http://www.bonhams.com/ 300.00