Sentences with phrase «art auction record»
Cramer also called attention to the Leonardo da Vinci painting that sold for over $ 450 million, breaking all - time art auction records.
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And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.
The sale broke the previous record price for a work of art at auction, Picasso's 1905» Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice).»
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The artist's current auction record, for the 1987 — 89 piece Mexico Crucifix, is $ 312,500, set at a Christie's day sale of contemporary art last November.
«It's been a long - time coming,» Virgilio Garza, Christie's head of Latin American Art, said of the new high mark, and now Frida and Diego are finally neck - in - neck with their auction records.»
Sales of Russian art hit a high of # 29 million ($ 55.4 million) at Sotheby's on May 31 and June 1, the latest in a string of record - setting auctions.
At the Rockefeller sale last night at Christie's in New York, a Diego Rivera painting sold for $ 9.76 million, a record for a work of Latin American art at auction.
Sotheby's had a record - breaking sale of modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam on March 8, when it auctioned off the BAT (British American Tobacco) ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, one of Europe's most highly regarded corporate art collections.
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.
It was a record for the artist, according to sales results and auction records kept by multiple sources including Blouin Art Sales Index and Iris Index.
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).
Yves Klein's FC1 (Fire Color 1) sold for $ 36,482,500, setting a work auction record for the artist, at New York, Rockefeller Plaza on 8 May 2012 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
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Two solo booths at the city's Frieze Art Fair will be dedicated to the British artist's work A solo show of 17 new paintings is on view at Pace Gallery «s 25th Street location plus A Hockney painting is expected to shatter his auction record will be on view at Sotheby's Upper East Side headquarters on May 4.
AUCTION Glenn Ligon achieves a career record at Sotheby's New York Nov. 11 contemporary art auction when his «Untitled (I Was Somebody),» sells for more than $ 3.9 million, well over twice the esAUCTION Glenn Ligon achieves a career record at Sotheby's New York Nov. 11 contemporary art auction when his «Untitled (I Was Somebody),» sells for more than $ 3.9 million, well over twice the esauction when his «Untitled (I Was Somebody),» sells for more than $ 3.9 million, well over twice the estimate.
In addition to Marshall, auction records were established for five other artists at Christie's May 10 Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale, including Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988).
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.
He was responsible for the development and co-curatorship of special twentieth century auctions such as Looking Forward to the Past, 2015, a sale that included Pablo Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger (Version 0), 1955, which sold for $ 179.4 million and set a record as the highest price ever achieved for any work of art at auction.
AUCTION Six artist records emerged at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Oct. 7 in London, including an artist record for «Walking with Vito,» a 2008 painting by Los Angeles - based Henry Taylor, which sold for $ 173,990 (including fees).
Record - Setting African American Art Auction Gives Swann Galleries Highest - Ever Sales Total in Company History
The critics also fall into this trap, because instead of looking at Oscar Murillo's art they are so consumed by the price points and the auction records that they never discuss the work.
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.
As Christie's aims for another record - breaking season, the auction house announced today that a rare Francis Bacon triptych painting of his friend and colleague Lucian Freud will be offered for sale in New York during its November 12th Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
Only two works from this series have come to auction in the last 20 years and each time they established a new record for the artist and a new benchmark for European art.
Plus: London's Gasworks receives # 75,000 grant Duchamp's Nu sur nu fetches record price at auction Ugo Rondinone installation defaced by vandals Designs revealed for Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art
Ten world auction records set in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, as 20th Century at Christie's surpasses the # 250 milliauction records set in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, as 20th Century at Christie's surpasses the # 250 milliAuction, as 20th Century at Christie's surpasses the # 250 million mark
The rediscovered masterpiece sells for $ 450,312,500 — a new world auction record for any work of art — at Christie's in New York
Presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the exhibition coincides with a number of other notable moments for Taylor, including his work gracing the March cover of Art in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this monArt in New York, the exhibition coincides with a number of other notable moments for Taylor, including his work gracing the March cover of Art in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this monArt in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this monart installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this month.
In addition to his participation in the Whitney Biennial, the Art in America cover, and auction record, a painting by Taylor was recently acquired by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Swann's African - American Art sale was a record for the category and the auction house.
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.
The February auctions in London, held by Christie's, Phillips and Sotheby's, will be closely followed by art insiders and the general public alike: oftentimes auction records are achieved for the top quality works that the auction houses have to compete for.
Every month or so, as the pandering museum shows and art fairs and summer group shows and art writer resignations and auction records had me losing hope, one of these came along.
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 $ 24,663,5Art 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 $ 24,663,5art 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.
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...
After a momentous auction, Jussi Pylkkänen, Global President, Christie's, remarked: «This evening we witnessed a record total for any Asian Art sale, and a spectacular success for a great museum through the sale of major Chinese works of art and paintings.&raqArt sale, and a spectacular success for a great museum through the sale of major Chinese works of art and paintings.&raqart and paintings.»
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.
Major works by the father of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet, works from the 1940s to the 1980s by the father of Op Art, Victor Vasarely, and finally, surged by collecting interest and record prices at auction, jewelry by three renowned Contemporary artists: Anish Kapoor, Claude Lalanne and Sophia Vari.
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.
Described as «a punch to the solar plexus» by Conor Jordan, Christie's Deputy Chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art, the work realised a world auction record for the artist when it sold for $ 70,062,500 at Christie's in New York in November 2017.
As a specialist, he is especially committed to Southeast Asian Modern Art, having been involved in numerous successes, including sale of the Joe Borkin collection of Affandi's for $ 2,870,000 and a new world auction record for a work by Rudolf Bonnet, A Market Scene which fetched $ 996,000.
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 Blouin Art Sales Index is an art price database with millions of auction records dating back to 1922 from over 1400 auction housArt Sales Index is an art price database with millions of auction records dating back to 1922 from over 1400 auction housart price database with millions of auction records dating back to 1922 from over 1400 auction houses.
In 2013, Katharine was responsible for writing and creating the 200 page book which accompanied the sale of Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) by Francis Bacon, which made the world record for any work of art at auction selling for $ 142million.
She later transitioned into a strategic role in where she worked on the auction house's Evening Sales of Contemporary Art, which included record - breaking prices for works by artists such as Clyfford Still and Gerhard Richter.
He has twice achieved the record for any photographic work of art at auction, both times by Andreas Gursky and twice achieved the record for any living artist at auction with Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons.