Not exact matches
Since late November, Pelham says it has been trying to get the
Gagosian Gallery to provide information regarding the
sale.
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.
Perelman said
Gagosian bought the sculpture from the Sonnabend
Gallery for $ 4 million about 2 1/2 weeks after executing its
sales contract with MacAndrews & Forbes, thereby restricting Perelman's ability to sell or trade the sculpture at fair market value.
Gagosian Gallery, New York Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Corporate Collections, New York, 2001 Their
sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 September 2010, lot 126 Acquired at the above
sale by the present owner
The judge in the case of the Qataris versus
Gagosian Gallery over the
sale of a Picasso bust to Leon Black has been waived through to the discovery phase, according to Bloomberg:
Gagosian Gallery is managing the
sales by having their specialists meet with potential buyers and show them work on an iPad so the images can not circulate in advance of the show at Francois Pinault's two Venice spaces.
Hirst was represented by both the White Cube and the
Gagosian gallery, the latter also putting a painting by Jean - Michel Basquiat on
sale for $ 5m.
(Artinfo) Big New
Gagosian Lawsuit - Revlon magnate Ron Perelman has sued megadealer Larry
Gagosian partly over a granite Jeff Koons Popeye sculpture, including the fascinating allegation that the gallerist failed to tell him that
Gagosian had a contract with Koons that entitled the artist to «70 percent of any amount over the original
sale price of $ 4 million if the
gallery resold the work — and 80 percent of any
sale if
Gagosian bought the sculpture back before it was finished, delivered and fully paid for.»
Saville is still a feminist: for the next couple of days you can see a work by her at the
Gagosian Gallery in King's Cross, alongside pieces by a wide range of artists that go on
sale in a charity auction this week on behalf of Women for Women International; she also co-organised the event.
These days, his
galleries make an estimated $ 1 billion (# 637m) in
sales every year,
Gagosian travelling between them in style on his private jet.
The news right before the
sales that the noted painter and Hollywood film director had switched to Pace
Gallery from
Gagosian seemed to aid, though not supercharge, his market at the auctions.
The years 2011 and 2012 saw a flurry of major international
galleries, such as
Gagosian Gallery and White Cube, open in Hong Kong after auction
sales in the city doubled from 2009 to 2010.
(And that's not even counting the private
sales brokered by his dealers at the heavyweight
Gagosian Gallery.)
Most notably, it was included in a not - for -
sale show of the artist's «Girls» series two years ago at New York's
Gagosian Gallery.
Rumors that
Gagosian Gallery's John Good, who resigned last week, is going to work at Christie's in their private
sales division, headed by Amy Cappellazzo, remind us that new CEO Steven Murphy has put private
sales at the center of his strategy for the future of the company.
A spokesperson for the
Gagosian gallery stated, «Because of the unusual process used to create his pieces, and his impeccable standards for completion, [Koons's] contracts for
sale specifically state that the delivery dates are only estimates.
The collection, entitled «Stepping Up For Art,» is on
sale at the
Gagosian Gallery.
The exclusive right to the primary
sale of the «Celebration» series is held by
Gagosian Gallery, his dominant dealer.
In its papers the
Gagosian Gallery said the higher commission was part of a «package deal» that involved another painting, the
sale of which generated an earlier lawsuit that Mr.
Gagosian settled for $ 4.4 million last year.
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles Phillips de Pury & Company, London, 10 October 2012, lot 19 Acquired at the above
sale by the present owner
Images from Mr. Prince's 2008 series, «Canal Zone,» were first shown at the
Gagosian Gallery on West 24th Street in Chelsea and, according to court papers, generated more than $ 10 million in
sales.
It seems that
Gagosian's gamble has paid off: Bloomberg reports that the
sales of Twombly's paintings, which took place before the
gallery had opened, brought in over $ 20 million.
Gagosian himself is estimated to clear $ 1 billion in
sales annually and is among a small group of
gallery owners whose appetites are omnivorous: He works across the contemporary and modern eras, representing living artists like John Currin and Mark Grotjahn while also dealing on behalf of the estates of Alberto Giacometti, Richard Avedon and Helen Frankenthaler.