Bonhams' new website
April 2 2012
Picture: Bonhams
A new website for Bonhams, which looks nice. But no improvement on the lot images though, which is curious...
Update:
A reader writes:
Re: the new Bonhams website, they seem to have got rid of their facility to search through past lots, although, weirdly, you can still search past auction titles. For example, I am interested in the landscape artist Francis Towne, so a search for "Towne" in past auctions brings up one result: a 2005 'Collections from Town & Country Houses' sale in Edinburgh that has, er, nothing to do with Towne.
Update II:
Another reader writes, in an email meant for someone else but copied to me by mistake:
There has been a posting about the new website at Art History News.
http://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/1214_Bonhams_new_website.
Can I suggest that you correct the comment on the site by emailing something on the lines of
"The reader of your posting about Bonhams' new website clearly didn't try very hard.
http://www.bonhams.com/search/?q=%22Francis%20Town%22&indexes=lot
You can search for any lot sold by Bonhams since 2003 and yes, you can still see the images of these lots.
http://www.bonhams.com/search/?q=%22Sinbad%20the%20salilor%22&indexes=lot
I'm guessing, but I think he might have had something to do with the design of the new site...
