Sentences with phrase «auction world record»

* Auction world record achieved for Indian artist Bagta «Rawat Gokal Das celebrating holi in the zenana» sold for $ 302,500 (pre-sale estimate $ 30,000 — 50,000)

An extraordinary early work by Bridget Riley, Untitled (Diagonal Curve), set an auction world record for the artist.

Jasper Johns, arguably the most important living Post War and Contemporary Artist, established an Auction record November 2014, when the Artist's Flag, fetched $ 36 million at Sotheby's, establishing an all time Auction world record for the Artist.

An extraordinary early work by Bridget Riley, Untitled (Diagonal Curve), painted in 1966, realised # 4,338,500 / $ 5,809,252 / $ 5,227,893, a new auction world record.

Modigliani's Reclining Nude holds the auction world record at # 113 million; the female record is # 28.8 million, for Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1.

Not exact matches

And we just sold this world record stone, and that was a pink diamond,» said David Bennett, worldwide chairman of Sotheby's International Jewellery division, ahead of the auction.

The auction house broke a world record this spring with the sale of an 18 - karat gold, diamond - encrusted Himalaya Birkin for nearly $ 380,000.

A Frida Kahlo painting has sold for just over $ 8 million at auction, a world auction record for the late Mexican artist.

An anonymous bidder agreed at auction to pay $ 3,456,789 to eat lunch with Warren Buffett, tying the record for the right to dine with one of the world's most admired investors.

This spring the auction house broke the world record for the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction with the $ 71.2 million sale of the «Pink Star» diamond.

The Premier League have announced record breaking TV rights with Sky and BT winning an auction to land the contract which allows them to televise the most exciting league in the world.

A world - record bid of $ 66,000 failed to buy a succulent Duesenberg, but champagne - sipping old - car shoppers at a Pennsylvania auction thawed the recession freeze by ponying up more than $ 300,000

Other strong results included a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO, selling at $ 3,948,230, a new world record for the model at auction.

About a year before the aforementioned Ferrari 250 GTO moved the record up to $ 38 million, this Mercedes - Benz racing car set a world record for the most expensive car sold at auction.

Back in October of last year, it looked as though an extraordinary 1956 Ferrari 290 MM had a fighting chance to claim the world record, but ended up selling for $ 28 million, placing the Fangio - driven Ferrari as the third most expensive car sold at public auction.

This eye - watering price tag vastly exceeds the current world record auction price of $ 38.1 million paid in 2014 for a red version (formerly belonging to British racing legend Stirling Moss) of the same 250 GTO model.

That sum represents a new world record, the most money paid for any American - made car to have crossed an auction block, and makes the unrestored Cobra one of the fifteen most expensive cars sold at auction.

During the auction, a unique 1960 DB4 GT Jet coupe set the world record for the most expensive Aston Martin ever sold, fetching a whopping 3.249 million pounds.

«I thought this was going to be one of those special days and it was, culminating with the new world auction record,» James Knight, Bonhams Group motoring director, said.

The iconic blue and yellow Subaru Impreza with chassis number 001 driven by the legendary Colin McRae breaks world record selling for # 230,000 at auction.

With expertise in over 20 specialty collecting areas, Skinner draws the interest of buyers from all over the world and its auctions regularly achieve world record prices.

The Guinness Book of World Records» recognized largest video game collection is currently up for auction on GameGavel.

The sale included works by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean - Michel Basquiat, establishing a total of 16 new world auction records, with nine works selling for more than $ 10 million and 23 for more than $ 5 million.

But with its record - breaking auction price of just under $ 120 million at Sotheby's last Wednesday, Edvard Munch's masterpiece has become a sign of the times for the fine art world as well.

Meanwhile, the world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction was set at the same Christie's sale when «Salvator Mundi,» a Leonardo da Vinci painting from 1500 sold for a staggering $ 450.3 million (including fees).

It was the top lot of the sale, setting a world auction record for Basquiat.

One such example is Kerry James Marshall, whose Plunge captivated the imagination of so many collectors and set a world auction record for the artist.»

Using last year's world record breaking $ 450,000,000 sale of Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi at Christie's, Smith builds upon this as the catalyst to explore the world of high - end art auction results and the wider topic of the commercial value of art.

With an estimate of $ 16 - 20 million, the painting is positioned to realize a new world auction record for the artist.

An excerpt of the document reads: «Behind the ostensible façade of Jeff Koons's art world triumphs and record - breaking auction prices, lurks a well - oiled machine, more specifically an established, archaic System as old as the hills applied to the art world to exploit art collectors» desire to own Jeff Koons sculptures.

Very few works of this size have come up at auction and this work should achieve a world record for a monochrome joke.

A world auction record by medium was established for George Condo's Three Nudes, which sold for # 488,750 / $ 675,453.

The total hammer price, which included the buyer premium and all fees came to just north of $ 84 million and thus set a new world auction record for the artist.

In November last year, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 set the world record for an artwork by a woman when it sold for $ 44.4 million (# 28m) at auction in New York.

«A stellar year» sees a total of $ 556.7 million and nine world auction records achieved in the category in 2017

Originally owned by Carla Panicali for over thirty years, the work set the world auction record for the artist's tagli when it sold to the present owner in 1998.

At a Christie's New York auction in 2015, Hofmann's Auxerre (1960), inspired by the expansive stained glass windows of the Cathédrale Saint Etienne in France, achieved a world auction record for the artist at $ 6,325,000.

World auction records were set on the night for works by Mark Bradford, Kelley Walker and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.

Christie's expects the triptych to surpass the previous world auction record for the artist set in 2008.

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The rediscovered masterpiece sells for $ 450,312,500 — a new world auction record for any work of art — at Christie's in New York

John Jones worked on the characteristic gold frames of Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud, which realised $ 142,405,000 at Christie's in November 2013, setting the world auction record for any work of art

Pablo Picasso's Les femmes d'Alger (Version «O») realized $ 179,365,000 achieving a world auction record for any work of art during the Looking Forward to the Past Evening Sale in New York on 11 May 2015.

Willem de Kooning's abstract painting Untitled XXV, 1977, broke a world record at auction when the painting sold for $ 66.3 million at Christie's evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on November 15, 2016 in New York.

In the Himalayan, Indian and South East Asian Art auction the world auction record for an Indian and South Asian work of art was achieved with the sale of a 900 - year - old black stone figure of Lokanatha (Avalokiteshvara) from Pala - period India, which realized $ 24,663,500.

The world auction record for Jean Dubuffet is currently held by Paris Polka, 1961, which is also from Dubuffet's Paris Circus series, according to Christie's.

The sale established eight new world auction records for a diverse range of artists, including Lucian Freud, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Hoffman, Robert Ryman, Sturtevant, and Giovanni Anselmo, among others.

AUCTION TOTALS $ 71,292,500 GUGGENHEIM GALA BENEFIT AUCTION TOTALS $ 2,682,000 WORLD RECORDS FOR RICHARD SERRA, ROB PRUITT, ADAM MCEWEN, NATE LOWMAN, HANS PETER FELDMANN AND HAEGUE YANG New York — Phillips de Pury & Company's Contemporary Art...

With strong results from the live sale on 10 October 2017 that set a world auction record for Peter Beard and highlighted Irving Penn who had four lots within the top 10 sale results, the series of seven online - only auctions have added to such successes.

Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on Wednesday, November 15, 2016 established four new world auction records for artists Willem de Kooning, Jonathan Horowitz, John Currin and Giuseppe Gallo, according to Christie's.