Bonhams

Bonhams
	Bonhams in Mayfair, London, U.K.
Company type	Private
Industry	Auctions, Valuations
Founded	1793; London, United Kingdom
Founders	Thomas Dodd and Walter Bonham
Headquarters	101 New Bond Street, London, United Kingdom
Number of locations	66 locations worldwide; (as of 2012)
Key people	Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard; (Executive Chairman); Alex Lejeune; (CFO)
Products	Fine arts, fine watches, fine jewellery, Asian art and motor cars
Owner	Epiris
Number of employees	1,200 (2024)
Divisions	Bonhams London; Bonhams Paris; Bonhams New York; Bonhams San Francisco; Bonhams Los Angeles; Bonhams Hong Kong; Bonhams Sydney; Bukowskis, Stockholm and Helsinki (acquired January 2022); Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen (acquired March 2022); Skinner Boston (acquired March 2022) ; Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr (acquired June 2022);
Website	bonhams.com

Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought together two of the four surviving Georgian auction houses in London, Bonhams having been founded in 1793, and Phillips in 1796 by Harry Phillips, formerly a senior clerk to James Christie.

Today, the amalgamated business handles art and antiques auctions. Bonhams operates two salerooms in London—the former Phillips sale room at 101 New Bond Street, and the old Bonham's sale room at the Montpelier Galleries in Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge—with a smaller sale room in Edinburgh. Sales are also held around the world in New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, and Singapore.^[1] Bonhams holds more than 280 sales a year in more than 60 collecting areas, including Asian art, Pictures, motor cars and jewelry. Bonhams has more than 550 staff with some of the world's leading specialists in their fields.

^ Shetty, Deepika (8 April 2014). "Auction house Bonhams opens Singapore office". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2014.

[1] Shetty, Deepika (8 April 2014). "Auction house Bonhams opens Singapore office". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2014.

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