Sentences with phrase «art auction history»

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The «Animation and Disneyana Auction,» held at Profiles in History in Los Angeles, will offer 600 lots of animation art and Disney - related items.

Her love for art history and design is evident in every nook and cranny of her beautiful home, so it's no surprise that she works at Christie's, one of the most prestigious fine arts auction houses in the world.

Theo and her friend Bodhi begin investigations that lead them to a church, an auction house, the public library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Center for Jewish History, and two Holocaust survivors.

Auction records were available in the Sotheby's library, and when a picture of note came in, she diligently searched the Art Price Index to see if it had auction hAuction records were available in the Sotheby's library, and when a picture of note came in, she diligently searched the Art Price Index to see if it had auction hauction history.

Tom Pugh has a First in Art history and works as a copywriter and speechwriter for a London - based public affairs firm, an international auction house and a Japanese publisher.

Where is the original flag that would rewrite art history or bring an easy $ 100 million at auction (or both), and why isn't there an all - out, Gardner Museum Vermeer — style hunt for it?

The $ 744.9 million total of Tuesday evening's sale represents the highest total for a single auction in art market history.

Record - Setting African American Art Auction Gives Swann Galleries Highest - Ever Sales Total in Company History

This work is the cornerstone of the auction since the electric chairs created a new departure in art history and many of the works in this auction descend from the lineage started from this series.

Starting this month at Christie's is an auction of The Collection of Peggy and David Rockeller, which is expected to fetch over half a billion for charity and become one of the biggest art auctions in history.

The grand total for the sale was $ 262,839,500, which alone surpassed the previous record for any Asian Art Week series in auction history.

Christie's dedicated Evening Sale of Important Chinese Art from the Fujita Museum realised a grand total of $ 262,839,500 / HK$ 2,032,755,075, which alone surpassed the previous record for any Asian Art Week series in auction history.

Previously as the Head of the New York Evening sales, the Post-war and Contemporary department grew significantly and under his direction the team produced five consecutive world records for the highest totals for an auction sale in art market history.

The American & European Works of Art department brings years of experience, connoisseurship, and knowledge of art history to bear in every fine art appraisal, evaluation, and auctiArt department brings years of experience, connoisseurship, and knowledge of art history to bear in every fine art appraisal, evaluation, and auctiart history to bear in every fine art appraisal, evaluation, and auctiart appraisal, evaluation, and auction.

Working alternatively between bronze and a lighter translucent resin, Havel's column of books cast from Sotheby auction catalogues, books on art history and sculpture, and those inherited from his parents create endless columns of personal memory, obtained knowledge, and private pleasures.

A «Walk on the Wild Side» history ramble will explore Mayfair's Victorian art history, hosted by Colin Sheaf, the chairman of the local auction house Bonhams.

Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York Totals $ 388.5 Million (# 240.9 Million / $ 299.1 Million) Most Valuable Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction Ever Top Prices Of The Week - Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow Soars to $ 86.9 Million (# 53.9 Million / $ 66.9 Million) Setting a New Record for Any Post-War and Contemporary Work Sold at Auction 21 New World Auction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caAuction Ever Top Prices Of The Week - Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow Soars to $ 86.9 Million (# 53.9 Million / $ 66.9 Million) Setting a New Record for Any Post-War and Contemporary Work Sold at Auction 21 New World Auction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caAuction 21 New World Auction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caAuction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caauction history for the category.

Growing up in Paris, she was drawn to art early on by her mother, who worked for an auction house, and in her teens she began buying fairly history - sanctioned works like 19th - century watercolors, eventually developing a special affection for Delaunay.

On November 12th Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale achieved $ 691,583,000 (# 435,697,000 / $ 511,771,420), the highest total for an auction sale in art market history, with a strong sell - through rate of 98 % by value and 91 % by lArt evening sale achieved $ 691,583,000 (# 435,697,000 / $ 511,771,420), the highest total for an auction sale in art market history, with a strong sell - through rate of 98 % by value and 91 % by lart market history, with a strong sell - through rate of 98 % by value and 91 % by lot.

Everything You Need to Know About the Nahmads — Art writer Randy Kennedy has teamed up with two of the New York Times's veteran metro reporters to pen a sweeping portrait of the Nahmad clan, a famously quiet $ 3 billion art - powerhouse family — with a history of going after a third of the lots in evening auctions, only to put them in storage to resell later — that has entered an unwelcome spotlight ever since dealer Helly Nahmad's alleged gambling ring exploded in their facArt writer Randy Kennedy has teamed up with two of the New York Times's veteran metro reporters to pen a sweeping portrait of the Nahmad clan, a famously quiet $ 3 billion art - powerhouse family — with a history of going after a third of the lots in evening auctions, only to put them in storage to resell later — that has entered an unwelcome spotlight ever since dealer Helly Nahmad's alleged gambling ring exploded in their facart - powerhouse family — with a history of going after a third of the lots in evening auctions, only to put them in storage to resell later — that has entered an unwelcome spotlight ever since dealer Helly Nahmad's alleged gambling ring exploded in their faces.

From Warhol's iconic image of America's most famous rock - and - roll singer Double Elvis to Picasso's revealing wartime self - portrait Le Marin, the works offered in Christie's Post-war and Contemporary art auctions are by some of the greatest icons in recent art history.

The auction house's post-war and contemporary art evening sale realised $ 852.9 million, the largest total in auction history.

(NYT) New Picasso Discovered, Heads to Market - In one of those classic check - your - attic tales, the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science found a layered glass mosaic by Picasso (titled Seated Woman With Red Hat) in an old mislabeled shipping crate and is now hoping to sell it at Guernsey's auction house for as much as $ 40 million, which would multiply the museums endowment ninefold.

Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA), the boutique auction house dedicated to modern and contemporary fine art and design, set a new company record, selling a single work for the highest price in the company's 24 - year history: Richard Prince's Bedtime Story (1988) from the seminal Monochromatic Jokes paintings realized $ 1.585 million.

Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi not only became the most expensive work of art in history, but more than doubled the previous auction record.

One of the most famous auctions in art market history is the Scull sale that took place at Sotheby's Parke Bernet on Ocotber 18, 1973 as Taxi magnate and collector Robert Scull liquidated his Contemporary art collection to shouted bids and hails of protest.

2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.

Art As Object 1958 - 1968, MOCA, Los Angeles, US Drift a Project of John Baldessari, Julião Sarmento, Lawrence Weiner commissioned by Delfim Sardo, Centro de Centro Cultural de Belém, PT Before the End (Sequence 2), Le Consortium, Dijon, FR White Columns 2004 Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York, US Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London, UK Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, IR Ulysses, Ineluctable Modality of the Visible, Austria Center for Contemporary Art, Österreichische Galerie Blevedere, Vienna, AT Beyond Posters a Visual History of Gallerie Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DCA Gallery, New York, US Incommunicado, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK D'Un Lieu L'Autre, Oeuvres de la Collection Daniel Bosser, Hommage Aux Collectionneurs, Centre D'Art de Lyon, FR Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940's -1970's, The Modern and Contemporary Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US; traveled to Miami Art Museum, Florida, US The Big Nothing, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, US Joyce in Art, Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce, an International Exhibition of Art from 1914 to 2004, Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, IR Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Not Done!

Last May's sale was the most lucrative contemporary art auction in history at $ 388.5 million.

Christie's held the most successful postwar art auction in history, setting a record for any postwar work at auction with a $ 87 million Mark Rothko, and sold 95 percent of its offerings.

Tellingly, at a time when the totals at evening sales of contemporary art are becoming ever - more bloated by financial guarantees — Christie's evening sale of May 13 took in $ 744.9 million, the highest total in art - auction history — Mr. Dolman was wary of Phillips entering an arms race to secure the most valuable eight - figure auction lots, which can yield auction houses little in the way of profit.

As part of the 20th Century season at Christie's, our Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions take place on 11 and 12 February, featuring some of the leading masters of this explosive period in the history of aArt auctions take place on 11 and 12 February, featuring some of the leading masters of this explosive period in the history of artart.

Christie's New York achieved the highest total in auction history Tuesday at its postwar and contemporary art sale, which totaled $ 691.6 million, near the high estimate for the night.

She graduated from La Sapienza University of Rome with a BA in History of Art conducting a research into the Art market, with a special regard to auctions and their link with the primary sector, mainly represented by commercial galleries.

Operating simultaneously as an artist and arts institution since its founding on September 11, 2001, the Bruce High Quality Foundation presents It's About Time, a talk covering the paradoxes of working simultaneously as an artist and organization, issues of timelessness, the construction of history, the progress of garbage, the politics of specificity, how to run a free art school, how to get rich, branding, the internet, the auction market from 1973 to present, community spirit, drinking in public, and how to build a better tomorrow.

The overall sales total was $ 4,509,540, a Swann record, not just for a sale in its African - American Fine Art department, but for the entire auction house over the course of its more than 75 - year history.

The Evening Auction of Contemporary Art in London on Wednesday 10 February comprises a sensational array of paintings and sculptures that epitomise the major advancements of recent Art History, including the most outstanding collection of Zero art ever presented for saArt in London on Wednesday 10 February comprises a sensational array of paintings and sculptures that epitomise the major advancements of recent Art History, including the most outstanding collection of Zero art ever presented for saArt History, including the most outstanding collection of Zero art ever presented for saart ever presented for sale.

This is the first time that the painting has been on the market for thirty years and we are sure to see a bidding war at the auction in May for this extremely rare and universally enticing work, especially with such a prestigious provenance and exhibition history,» stated Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art.

In May 2008, the Contemporary Art auction became the most successful in Sotheby's history, with Francis Bacon's Triptych, 1976 realizing $ 86.3 million, an auction record for the artist and a record for a Contemporary work sold at auction.

Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) achieved the highest sale total in company history, realizing $ 5.28 million including commissions, with a sell - through rate of 90 % of the 386 lots offered in the February 23, 2014 Modern Art & Design auction.

Public Sculpture projects with Tuscaloosa organizations: Innovative Bike Rack Design Duo Strike Again UA Sophomores Sculpt Steel Flowers for Shelby Park UA Sculptures Break 3 - Year Auction Record for Children's of Alabama UA Art and Art History Students Create City Bike Racks

Now, as this historical thread comes of age and recognizes itself in the mirror of history and on the faces of its youth, as the pioneers of the culture are canonized and the younger artists are united, there are many more opportunities afforded them within the design market, auction houses and fine art world, as these communities continue grow in their recognition of the cultural value and influence of Graffiti and Street Art, as the most prevalent styles and art movements in the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuriart world, as these communities continue grow in their recognition of the cultural value and influence of Graffiti and Street Art, as the most prevalent styles and art movements in the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuriArt, as the most prevalent styles and art movements in the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuriart movements in the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuries.

The Contemporary Art evening sale on 26th November 2014 saw Dorotheum achieve the best Contemporary sale result in the auction house's history.

That habit includes visiting artist studios and selecting shows for his Redbud Gallery, reading art history, perusing auction catalogs and updating the database of his collection of more than 1,300 objects.

«A Christie's Auction Brings Together the Art, and History, of Jeff Koons and Martin Kippenberger.»

Los Angeles - baed Bradford's painting was featured in Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on March 8, a groundbreaking auction that yielded the highest sales total in the company's history (# 97,845,050 British Pounds, $ 135,153,368) *, according to Phillips

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