World of Auction

- Season 1

(2012)

Stockholms Auktionsverk was founded in 1674, on the initiative of Baron Claes Rålamb, who was Governor of Stockholm at that time. As such, we are the oldest auction house in the world still operating today. In fact, we have sold items in styles now known as Baroque, Rococo and Gustavian while they were still contemporary. Our list of distinguished customers over the centuries features names such as King Karl XI, King Gustav III, our Swedish national bard Carl Michael Bellman, and authors August Strindberg and Selma Lagerlöf.

Founded in 1870 by Polish nobleman Henryk Bukowski, Bukowskis has conducted auctions in Sweden for the past 140 years. Some of the great collections the company has had the privilege to sell include, to name but a few, the collection of King Charles XV in 1873 and the estate of Film Director Ingmar Bergman in 2009. During the 1920's, Bukowskis enjoyed the sole right to sell the etchings by one of the best known Swedish classical artist Anders Zorn, which established the company as an actor in the Fine Art category. Bukowskis is one of the oldest salesrooms for Fine ...