Artcurial Motorcars, Le Mans Classic, June 30, 2023
What better place to sell a racing car … or any performance car for that matter … than at the historic Le Mans Circuit just two weeks after the annual endurance classic during the Le Mans Classic historic races? It’s fair to say interest and awareness were higher than usual in 2023 following Ferrari’s overall […]
Artcurial Motor Cars, Paris, July 6, 2023
Ferrari 250 LM s/n 5901 Just a week after conducting its annual Le Mans Classic auction at the Sarthe Circuit, a sale of some 120 lots, Artcurial Motor Cars presented a single car sale at its Paris headquarters. But what a car it was: 1964 Ferrari 250 LM s/n 5901, one of only 32 250 […]
Artcurial Motorcars, Parisienne, February 5, 2021
The annual pilgrimage to Paris, winter weather be damned, was put off this year by CoViD. The gigantic Rétromobile show months ago postponed to June 2-6 hoping to catch the CoViD slipstream – a hope that is increasingly ephemeral. The auctions that orbit Rétromobile from Artcurial Motorcars, Bonhams and RM Sotheby’s were left to follow […]
Artcurial Motorcars, André Trigano Collection, Auriol, Gibel, France, September 13, 2020
It was with great fanfare that Artcurial Motorcars announced this single owner collection in late winter of 2020, scheduled for May 2 on location in the Mid-Pyrenees. The location was convenient to nothing, but promised to be delightful in the spring. CoViD-19 put paid to that shortly after the auction was announced. The auction went […]
Artcurial Retromobile, Paris, February 7, 2020
Artcurial at Retromobile in 2020 had an abundance of wonderful cars. It was, however, the middle and bottom of the market that found buyers. The big money cars struggled, leaving the auction with its weakest performance in years. One of the feature elements, the sale of four gorgeous yachts at no reserve (gorgeous to contemplate, […]
Artcurial Motorcars, Salon Retromobile, Paris, February 8, 2019
Artcurial put on a 3-day auction at Salon Retromobile but the cars were all on Friday the eighth, and there all eyes were enthusiastically focused on a single lot. It was number 20 (unusually early in the order for a headliner, but there were many high profile cars to follow), the 1939 Alfa Romeo 8C […]
The Epic Alfa Romeo – 8C 2900B at Artcurial Retromobile
[Quick note: This magnificent Alfa Romeo sold for €16,745,600, about US$19 million.] Artcurial Motorcars headline consignment for its annual Retromobile auction in February 2019 is a Touring Berlinetta bodied Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B, chassis number 412024. Alfa Romeo built only a handful of its masterpiece, the 8C 2900, in the late Thirties. They are […]
Artcurial, Salon Retromobile, Paris, February 9-10, 2018
Artcurial’s Retromobile auction is “the Official Sale” of the Retromobile show in Paris at the Porte de Versailles Paris Expo center, a lavish, enthusiastic, celebration of all things old cars. Retromobile covers thousands of square meters of enclosed exhibition space with just about every kind of exhibitor from tightly focused one-marque clubs and tables covered […]
Artcurial Motorcars, Rétromobile, Paris, February 10, 2017
On the numbers Artcurial’s $34.7 million 2017 sale looks light, but that isn’t taking into account the $35 million sale of the Ferrari 335 Sport last year which had no comparable blockbuster in 2017. Then there was the $19.1 million sale of the Baillon Collection’s Ferrari 250 GT SWB Cal Spyder two years ago. Without […]