RM Sotheby’s Online Only: The European Sale
June 3-11, 2020 Featuring the Petitjean Collection This was RM Sotheby’s third online only auction, succeeding its canceled second annual auction at Techno Classica Essen in Germany. The feature was the 96 cars from La Collection Petitjean, all offered at no reserve after decades of static storage and, as it turned out, indifferent cosmetic attention […]
RM Sotheby’s, Online Only: Driving Into Summer March 21-29, 2020
Two months ago RM, in just two weeks after the onset of the COVID-19 shutdown, converted its scheduled Palm Beach auction into an Online Only format. Since then RM’s Essen, Germany auction was postponed (it has been reinstated this week as Online Only: The European Sale featuring the Petitjean Collection closing on June 10-11.) With […]
The 2020 Pebble Beach™ Concours d’Elegance
In an email press release at 9:56 PM EDT tonight the Pebble Beach™ Concours d’Elegance announced that the 2020 event has been cancelled and postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 concerns. Their early announcement is welcome recognition that we’re not going to get out of coronavirus/Covid-9 concerns any time soon and acknowledges the concerns of […]
RM Sotheby’s Online Only: Palm Beach, March 20-28, 2020
On Friday preceding the Amelia concours, RM Sotheby’s hosted a small gathering of its executives with a few longtime journalists and auction-watchers. It was March 6—an eternity ago in terms of the novel coronavirus threat. By the time most of us returned home from Amelia, it was clear it would be some time before we […]
RM Sotheby’s, Amelia Island, March 6-7, 2020
The End of the Beginning We didn’t know it at the time, but RM’s last session of its two-day Amelia Island auction at the Ritz Carlton marked the beginning of the end of live collector car auctions in 2020, at least until the so-called novel coronavirus (designated “2019-nCoV” by the WHO, distinct from the acute […]