RM Sotheby’s, Arizona Biltmore, January 26, 2023
While not as impressive as 2022’s one-day 69-lot performance, RM Sotheby’s auction at the Arizona Biltmore RM turned in a curve-setting total in 2023. $44.6 million in a single-day sale is exceptional. Its $558,079 average transaction is bettered only by 2022’s $665,394 million average transaction and 2015’s $578,232 million average. That kind of average is […]
RM Sotheby’s, Miami Beach, December 10, 2022
RM Sotheby’s launched a different concept live auction in Miami on December 10. Set at the 7th floor exhibition space at 1111 Lincoln Road surrounded by stylish bars and restaurants it featured twenty-one cars from the Kuwait-based Youngtimer Collection and five from the Rey Collection in a 58-car docket. 36 of the lots were offered […]
RM Sotheby’s, Newman/Hass Collection, Lincolnshire, IL, October 29, 2022
Rarely, if ever, does a collection like this come along. Carl Haas and Paul Newman got together in 1983 when Haas convinced Mario Andretti to join the team, if he could bring Paul Newman into it (or maybe it was the other way around.) Newman, it was noted in the catalog, wasn’t inclined but succumbed […]
RM Sotheby’s, Gene Ponder Collection, Marshall, Texas, September 24, 2020
Fifteen years ago in 2007 RM Auctions sold kitchen cabinet mogul Gene Ponder’s collection (or much of it) in Marshall, Texas at No Reserve raising $11.9 million. But, you can’t keep an enthusiastic serial buyer down and on September 24 RM Sotheby’s sold the latest Ponder acquisitions with No Reserve also at his spread in […]
RM Sotheby’s, Monterey, August 18-20, 2022
It’s been five weeks since leaving Monterey with incipient Covid-19. The infection wasn’t bad, but it has lingering consequences. But, finally, here’s the final result from Monterey 2022 and it’s RM Sotheby’s epic sale with $243 million changing hands. To put it in perspective, in 2017 Sotheby’s evening contemporary art auction in New York totaled […]
RM Sotheby’s, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Monaco — May 14, 2022
RM Sotheby’s returned to the seafront Grimaldi Forum during the GP Historique week in Monaco. Located only a block from the GP circuit’s Portier corner, the music of historic GP cars is a delightful counterpoint to viewing and selling the cars in the auction. Grimaldi Forum is a modern exhibition hall, ideally suited for […]
RM Sotheby’s, Amelia Island, March 5, 2022
There was something for [almost] everyone in RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island auction. The only category missing was American Muscle Cars, and of that category we’ve had plenty in Kissimmee and Scottsdale. Notable were a varied assortment of classics. Some of them were in in concours condition with some of the finest coachwork of the era, […]
RM Sotheby’s, Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix, January 27, 2022
RM Sotheby’s delivered its best Arizona auction results in five years, and it was in a single-day auction with just 69 cars in sharp contrast with 160 in 2017, 150 in 2016, 123 in 2015 and 126 in 2014 in their best two-day sales in 2017 back to 2014. The renewed focus on good stuff […]
RM Sotheby’s Jean Guikas Collection, Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France, August 19, 2021
For anyone with an appreciation of competition cars Circuit Paul Ricard – famous for its white curbs and red and blue painted runoff areas and the French Grand Prix – was the destination of choice on Friday August 19. Whether in person or on the interweb RM’s auction of the Guikas Collection was the place […]
RM Sotheby’s, London, November 6, 2021
Although RM has held plenty of auctions in London, both before and since teaming up with Sotheby’s, this was their first as the title sponsor of the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (hereafter “LBVCR”). Previously the LBVCR-linked auction has been the province of Bonhams, along with the title sponsorship and participation of Bonhams stalwart […]