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The Luxury Assets Brief
A sample drawn from the latest published reporting. Prices and dates remain those of the linked stories.
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€10.2m
Bonhams Zoute sale total, 11 October
Lamborghini Miura P400S makes €1,725,000 including premium as Bonhams Zoute totals €10.2mThree stories
Lamborghini Miura P400S makes €1,725,000 including premium as Bonhams Zoute totals €10.2m
The 11 October sale sold 53 of its 72 lots, against a 95 per cent sell-through in 2024, while all twelve cars from the Keller Brothers Collection found buyers.
Heavy-jet median values up 14 per cent this year, light jets down 4, preliminary data show
AMSTAT’s preliminary third-quarter data show 5.1 per cent of the heavy-jet fleet for sale, against a 10-year average of 7 per cent, while light-jet and turboprop transactions fell in the quarter.
Christie’s offers Piet Mondrian’s Composition III for the first time at £20m–£30m
A Kandinsky returned to the Lewenstein heirs in June 2023 is in the same Christie’s London evening sale on 14 October, with an estimate in excess of US$30m.
Owner risk
Dalí bronze book cover stolen from French art centre
A 150-kilogramme bronze book cover by Salvador Dalí, decorated with gold, precious stones and pearls, has been stolen from an art centre in central France.
Sales to watch
Lamborghini Miura P400S makes €1,725,000 including premium as Bonhams Zoute totals €10.2m
The 11 October sale sold 53 of its 72 lots, against a 95 per cent sell-through in 2024, while all twelve cars from the Keller Brothers Collection found buyers.
Heavy-jet median values up 14 per cent this year, light jets down 4, preliminary data show
AMSTAT’s preliminary third-quarter data show 5.1 per cent of the heavy-jet fleet for sale, against a 10-year average of 7 per cent, while light-jet and turboprop transactions fell in the quarter.
Christie’s offers Piet Mondrian’s Composition III for the first time at £20m–£30m
A Kandinsky returned to the Lewenstein heirs in June 2023 is in the same Christie’s London evening sale on 14 October, with an estimate in excess of US$30m.
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