Sentences with phrase «balloon dog sold»

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According to Artnet His highest sold sculpture Balloon Dog was sold for $ 58.4 million.

Prices for sculptures in Koons's epic «Celebration» series, which are being financed and sold by New York dealer Larry Gagosian, start at $ 1.5 million, going up to $ 5 million for his massive stainless - steel Balloon Dog (1994 — 2000).

Peter Brant told us about antiquing with Warhol in Europe and what it's like to sell a $ 58.4 million Jeff Koons balloon dog, Rosa de la Cruz detailed her vision of transforming Miami into an intellectual art capital, Zöe and Joel Dictrow talked about devoting themselves to chasing emergent art, UOVO's Steven Guttman described his quest to build the world's greatest art - storage facility, and Alden Pinnell of Austin's Power Plant space described how one builds a contemporary art scene from scratch.

Coming off his Balloon Dog (Orange), which sold last November for $ 58.4 m (# 34m), the highest price ever paid for a living artist, two other shiny sculptures adorned the catalogue covers of Sotheby's and Christie's spring sales, with Jim Beam — JB Turner Train, the stainless steel train filled with bourbon, selling for $ 33.7 m, and Popeye going to Steve Wynn's Las Vegas casino for an above - estimate $ 28.1 m. Fans packed in like sardines last year for Koons's solo shows at New York's Gagosian and Zwirner galleries, which pitted his Gazing Ball plaster casts against work just off the production line, and are currently filing through Rockefeller Center to view Split - Rocker, rising 37 feet (11 metres) in the air, with the hairs of its 50,000 living flowers standing on end.

Peter Brant has decided to sell the coveted «Balloon Dog» (Orange) by Jeff Koons to raise money for the Brant Foundation Art Study Center based in Connecticut.

Famous for creating outsized fabricated objects, Koons broke auction records last year when his whimsical reflective - surface «Balloon Dog (Orange)» sold for more than $ 58 million.

There's plenty of provocation on hand as well, notably Paul McCarthy's surprisingly direct broadside of Jeff Koons in the form of glossy sculptures of balloon dogs — with a gigantic hot - air version perched outside the fair's entrance — that tweak that fellow mega-artist for his eyebrow - raising 2011 legal fight with a small San Francisco bookstore selling mini balloon dog sculptures.

His work «Balloon Dog (Orange)» sold for $ 58.4 million in 2013, the highest price for a living artist's work sold at auction.

Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living artist — Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 - 2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $ 58.4 million at Christie's.

Jesús Rafael Soto's Escultura Cinética (Sotomagie), From Permutacions from 1967 (Lot 135) and Jeff Koons» Balloon Dog Blue from 1995 (Lot 99) are both estimated at $ 8,000 — $ 12,000, and Arman's Untitled (Molting Statue Of Liberty) from 1992 (Lot 44) is one of the last lots that could be sold for a five - figure price, as it is estimated at $ 7,000 — $ 10,000.

Jeff Koons made himself a household name with his gargantuan steel sculpture series Balloon Dog, which broke records in 2013 when one of his five supersized hounds became the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction, going for a staggering $ 58.4 m.

At the same auction Jeff Koons's sculpture Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 - 2000, topped the auction record for a living artist, exceeding estimates to sell for $ 58.4 million.

But then, so long as they didn't give away too much of that $ 744.9 million on profit-less deals to obtain works for the evening (as they did with Peter Brant's Koons, Balloon Dog (Orange), which sold for a record $ 58.4 million at that record Bacon sale), the house higher - ups had to be pleased.

That auction also minted Jeff Koons» $ 58.4 million Balloon Dog (Orange)(1994 - 2000) as the most expensive piece by a living artist ever sold at auction.

Christie's estimated it at $ 35 million to $ 55 million and guaranteed «Balloon Dog» would sell for an undisclosed minimum, financed through third parties.

The auction record for a Jeff Koons was set in 2013 when Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 — 2000, sold for $ 58.4 million at Christie's New York.

Carol Vogel has the announcement that Peter Brant is selling his version of Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog at Christie's this November with an estimate of $ 35 to $ 55m.

His orange «Balloon Dog» became the most expensive work sold by a living artist when it was auctioned for $ 58 million at Christie's last fall.

Jeff Koons — one of the pop world's most successful artists, known for such work as inflatable bunnies and ceramic replicas of singer Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles — last week dropped his lawsuit against a Toronto company that makes bookends in the shape of balloon dogs and Park Life, a San Francisco business that sells the items.