In addition to such vaunted names as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, «hot» young artists born after 1955 are earning
top auction prices.
Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, Chris Ofili, Glenn Ligon, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby are also among the most expensive artists of African descent, with
top auction prices for their works hovering in the the $ 3 million to nearly $ 6 million range.
Top auction prices reflect a growing inequality, and that has to be bad for art, just as in the economy as a whole.
A painting by Childe Hassam called «Shingling the First Baptist Church,» showing a church in a small harbor town, more than doubled its high estimate, selling for $ 3.5 million,
the top auction price for the artist in five years, Sotheby's said.
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top price, then once he scouts out a car before the
auction starts he sends me pics and vids about it detailing what he sees.
«Steve» by Barkley L. Hendricks covers the catalog and is the
auction's
top - selling lot, selling for $ 365,000 (including fees), a record
price for Hendricks and more than double its high estimate.
A major show in 2017 at the New Museum in New York and the Palazzo Ca» Nova in Venice brought her to a wider audience, with the artist's
top prices at
auction being achieved in the past two years.
More recently, he declined several requests to discuss his success — namely the
auction high of $ 16.8 million set this spring at Christie's (more than double Mr. Grotjahn's
top price to date, $ 6.9 million in 2010).
Christie's holds seven of the
top 10
prices for the artist at
auction.
Statistics from 2012 reveal that 90 per cent of the visual artists featured in art books were men; work by women artists made up three to five per cent of major permanent collections in the US and Europe; artworks by female artists achieved none of the highest 100
auction prices; of The Art Newspaper's
top 30 most visited exhibitions in New York, Paris, and London, only three were solo exhibitions featuring female artists.
Christie's holds the
top two
prices for Smith's work at
auction.
Strong
prices were achieved by women artists such as Joan Mitchell and Ruth Asawa as part of the
top ten
prices sold in today's
auction.
Sourced directly from Marina Picasso, the artist's granddaughter, it
topped the sale with a
price of # 10.4 million, an
auction record for a Picasso work on paper.
Before following her passion for Post War & Contemporary Art, Ana Maria was a Specialist in Latin American art during which time she oversaw and participated in some of the highest achieving sales in that category, including a prestigious collection of Wifredo Lam paintings as well playing a crucial role in sales which achieved two of the
top prices for Jesus Rafael Soto at
auction.
This piece, a version of one of Frank Stella's legendary early minimalist paintings, is
priced at $ 600,000 — a
price that might take your breath away unless you know that her work has
topped out at
auction at an impressive $ 710,000.
With 90 per cent sold by lot and 96 per cent sold by value, the
auction confirmed Christie's ability to read the continuing evolution of the global market, achieving
top prices for young talent, celebrated mid-career artists and established post-war masters alike.
Christie's achieved seven of the
top ten
auction prices for the season across all houses, underlining its leading position in the market — a status confirmed by strong overall sell - through rates of 82 per cent by value and 81 per cent by lot.
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 ca
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 ca
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 ca
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 ca
auction history for the category.
In those dark days after the financial crash many art world superstars suffered a serious blow,
top - end
auction prices dropped considerably.
With a several
top - end masterpieces, this
auction had its value estimated at $ 129,607,905 — $ 181,514,098, with the average lot
price over $ 2 million.
Odd because 9 of Stella's
top 20
prices were seen at
auction in the last three years.
Jasper John's encaustic and silk Flag, (1983) went for $ 36 million, an
auction record for the artist, with the
top price of the night $ 45 (# 28.56 m), going to Rothko's No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange), 1951, albeit $ 5m less than its estimate.
It is unlikely that the
top prices paid at
auction would be recovered at this moment.
The
top lot was Will Cotton's Taffy Forest, which went for a final hammer
price of $ 272,500, setting an
auction record for Mr. Cotton.
All sorts of records have been smashed: Mark Rothko's White Center sold for $ 72.8 million, doubling the
top price for a postwar work; and the world
auction record for a work by a living artist was set by Jeff Koons» Hanging Heart, at $ 23.5 million.
THE MOST VALUABLE VISUAL ART For information about the world's highest
priced visual art and record
auction prices, see:
Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings
Frederick Hammersley's Adjective (1966)(Lot 309, est. $ 60,000 — 90,000) brought $ 100,000, a new world
auction record for the artist — exceeding his past eight
top prices, all set by LAMA.
The
top price of the sale was achieved with Picasso's Fillette à la corbeille fleurie from 1905, which realised $ 115,000,000 (including buyer's commission)-- the artist's second highest at
auction.
But over the past few years there have been signs of renewed demand for work by that group of «1980s artists», including Schnabel, whose
top three
auction prices have been set since 2013.
AUCTION LONDON Bombay born UK based sculptor Anish Kapoor was the only Asian artist in the
top 10
prices achieved at Sotheby's Contemporary Day Sale at Bond Street London on July 2 2008.
In total, 23 artist records were established representing 46 % of the
auction, and the
top 3
prices were paid for works by female artists (Tracey Emin, Rebecca Warren and Berlinde de Bruyckere).
The
top price of the
auction was paid for To Meet My Past, a four poster bed by Tracey Emin, which sold for # 481,875 / $ 770,518 / $ 567,649 — a world record
price for the artist at
auction.
Brown's
auction prices have been steadily climbing in recent years,
topping out at Sotheby's London in 2012 with a record $ 8 million.
A superbly colorful and remarkably well - preserved American hand - carved Cigar Store Indian, which had sat in a Washington, D.C. - area basement for at least 20 years, brought a world record public
auction price of $ 203,150 on May 22 as the top lot in Heritage Auction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana A
auction price of $ 203,150 on May 22 as the
top lot in Heritage
Auction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana A
Auction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana
AuctionAuction.
The Collection of a Fortune 500 Company led the way to a $ 3.48 million afternoon at Heritage
Auction Galleries» June 9 Signature ® Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art
Auction with Bruce Nauman's stunning Human Nature, 1983, bringing $ 776,750 — the highest
price yet paid for a work on paper by the artist — to take
top honors.
Although a work by Andreas Gursky, a German photographer, has since displaced Ms Sherman's picture from the
top spot, she is still one of the few women artists whose
auction prices are in the same ballpark as her male peers.
How many female artists featured in the
top 100
auction sales, ranked by
price, last year?
TOP PRICED MODERN ART For a list of the most valuable modern art to be sold at auction by Sotheby's and Christie's, see: Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings For a list of the Top 10 works by artists from Ireland, see: Most Expensive Irish Paintin
TOP PRICED MODERN ART For a list of the most valuable modern art to be sold at
auction by Sotheby's and Christie's, see:
Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings For a list of the Top 10 works by artists from Ireland, see: Most Expensive Irish Paintin
Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings For a list of the
Top 10 works by artists from Ireland, see: Most Expensive Irish Paintin
Top 10 works by artists from Ireland, see: Most Expensive Irish Paintings.
THE MOST VALUABLE VISUAL ART For record
auction prices, see:
Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings
Top 20 Most Expensive Paintings
The record
auction price for a Warhol is currently $ 71.7 million - paid at Christie's in 2007 for Green Car Crash I. See: Most Expensive Paintings:
Top 20.
Other
top prices included $ 11,284,628 ($ 8.8 m to $ 12.1 m) for Gitane by the Dutch Fauvist portrait painter Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968); and $ 10,216,148 (estimate: $ 6.4 m — $ 9.6 m) for Espagnole by the Russian modernist Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)- a record
auction price for a painting by a female artist.
RECORD
AUCTION PRICES For a list of the Top 10 prices achieved by painters here, see: Most Expensive Irish Pain
PRICES For a list of the
Top 10
prices achieved by painters here, see: Most Expensive Irish Pain
prices achieved by painters here, see: Most Expensive Irish Paintings.
June 28: Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Francis Bacon's Study for a Portrait made the
top price of $ 25 million at Christie's
auction of contemporary art this week.
Self - portraits by modern Indian painter Amrita Sher - Gil, deemed «national treasures,» are selling for
top prices at
auctions.
WORLD
AUCTION RECORDS For information about the world's most highly priced works of art and record auction prices, see: Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Top 20 Most Expensive Pa
AUCTION RECORDS For information about the world's most highly
priced works of art and record
auction prices, see: Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Top 20 Most Expensive Pa
auction prices, see:
Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings
Top 20 Most Expensive Paintings
The works featured below reflect the current
auction market — the
top 25 lots by black artists from 2014 - 2016, the highest
price achieved by each artist during the period.