Sentences with phrase «art sold at auctions»

The report gives some interesting insight into the situation of contemporary art sold at auctions worldwide.

The painting, sold at Christie's New York salesroom this week has become the most expensive work of art sold at auction to date.

The artist's Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) rang up at $ 142.4 million at Christie's in November 2013, becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction.

Basquiat's previous record was achieved in 2016 when a 1982 painting of a horned devil sold at Christie's for $ 57.3 million (the fifth most expensive work of art sold at auction that year).

«If there's a billion dollars of art sold at auction, $ 990 million is not spent, because there's always an underbidder.

The most expensive piece of American art sold at auction, this signature work by one of the great abstract painters of the mid-20th century, and a pioneer of Colour Field Painting, is the second most expensive post-war painting sold at auction, after Francis Bacon's Triptych.

Not exact matches

Another work of art from the collection a Massachusetts museum that came under intense criticism for deciding to sell multiple works in an effort to stay open has sold at auction.

In the face of mounting budget deficits, the James Prendergast Library in Jamestown is planning to sell 19th - and 20th - century paintings and tapestries valued at as much as $ 1 million from its art collection through two New York City auction houses.

For example, in «Hidden Masterpiece» you are a painting - repair specialist who sells reconstructed works of art at auction, testing visuospatial ability and concentration.

By JANE SEYMOUR Auction houses regularly make headlines when they sell high art at astronomical prices.

In May, Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel artwork The Scream sold for $ 119.9 million, the highest price ever paid for art at auction.

Nevertheless, there is both an art and a science to the pricing of Hermès bags sold at auction.

RM Sothebys recently announced that Chassis # 211 will be up for sale at its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on November 16, right here in the Big Apple, where it's expected to sell for around $ 4 million (though we feel that estimate is light — perhaps by a large margin).

The 250 LM race car was Ferrari's first mid-engine car, and this extremely well - maintained example sold for a heady $ 14 million at RM's Art of the Automobile auction in 2013.

Auctions Joe Kubert's original cover art for «Battle Classics» # 3, signed by the artist, sold for $ 8,360 at auction earlier this month at Philip Weiss Auctions in Lynbrook, New York.

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 auctioAt 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 auctioat Christie's in New York, a Diego Rivera painting sold for $ 9.76 million, a record for a work of Latin American art at auctioat auction.

Artists Draw A Line Under Torture: has gathered together leading artists uniting to fundraise by selling their work at Freedom from Torture: The Art Auction.

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.

FLAGS HAVE PROVEN to be a powerful medium in contemporary art, from David Hammons's «African American Flag» (1990), which sold at Phillips auction for more than $ 2 million, to Dread Scott's «A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday» (2015) displayed last summer at Jack Shainman Gallery, and Nu Barreto's «Desunited States of Africa» (2010) flag on view last month at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Red Hook, Brooklart, from David Hammons's «African American Flag» (1990), which sold at Phillips auction for more than $ 2 million, to Dread Scott's «A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday» (2015) displayed last summer at Jack Shainman Gallery, and Nu Barreto's «Desunited States of Africa» (2010) flag on view last month at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Red Hook, BrooklArt Fair in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Gasthof, a semi-surreal, partial self - portrait (that's the artist on the left, in the photo of the painting above), sold at a Christie's auction in 2014 to Larry Gagosian, Cohen's art dealer, for just under $ 17 million.

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.

Juile Mehretu's «Conjured Parts (Dresden),» 2017, will be sold at Sothebys's evening auction of contemporary art on May 16 in New York.

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).

Sold for # 22,261,250 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 6 March 2018 at Christie's in London © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London

Sold for # 8,671,250 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 6 March 2018 at Christie's in London © Lucio Fontana / SIAE / DACS, London 2018

Last November, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / Flower No. 1 became the most expensive work by a female artist ever sold at auction, fetching $ 44.4 million (see Wall Flowers — women in historical art collections).

An important and large painting Looking Towards Mornington Crescent Station (1972 -74) by the highly acclaimed artist Frank Auerbach will be sold by Bonhams in the 20th Century British Art auction at New Bond Street on November 17th 2010.

Presenting work by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century alongside those at the forefront of contemporary art, Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London totalled # 137,459,750 / $ 189,969,375 — the highest ever for a London Post-War sale, and was 92 per cent sold by lot and 96 per cent by valart, Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London totalled # 137,459,750 / $ 189,969,375 — the highest ever for a London Post-War sale, and was 92 per cent sold by lot and 96 per cent by valArt Evening Auction in London totalled # 137,459,750 / $ 189,969,375 — the highest ever for a London Post-War sale, and was 92 per cent sold by lot and 96 per cent by value.

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

The same collection of drugs is depicted in Hirst's «Fact» painting «HIV AIDS, Drug Combination» (2006), which was also sold at the (RED) auction and which was exhibited together with «Where There's a Will, There's a Way» as part of «Requiem», the major 2009 exhibition of Hirst's work at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev.

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 2007, one sold at Sotheby's for $ 23m, then the most expensive piece of art created by a living artist sold at auction.

The success of any art is how well it does at the box office or how much it sells for at auction.

A «musketeer» painted by Pablo Picasso was one of the big attractions at an auction of impressionist and modern art at Christie's held in London, where it sold for -LSB-...]

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.

Arguably Prince's best - known work, the image of a cowboy galloping under a bright blue sky had been the catalogue cover for the artist's 1992 survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and it became the most expensive photograph ever to sell at auction when New York dealer Stellan Holm bought it at Christie's in November 2005 for $ 1,248,000.

The painting is estimated to sell for in excess of $ 150 million in Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 14 May 2018 — the highest estimate ever placed on a work of art at auctiArt Evening Sale on 14 May 2018 — the highest estimate ever placed on a work of art at auctiart at auction.

Known for his innovative approach to catalogues and exhibitions, he has also been responsible for the consignment of the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud which achieved $ 142.4 million at Christies New York in November 2013.

According to Artnet, this painting sold for $ 46,000 at the 2009 Coeur D'Alene Art Auction.

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.

A portrait by the British artist Francis Bacon which has not been seen in public for over 55 years is to be sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction

But in 2007, when his 1991 White Canoe, a nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

At Bonhams» Impressionist & Modern Art Auction in New York on May 12, Seated Old Man set a record for a work on paper by the artist when it sold for $ 425,000, over four times its high estimate.

The Art Newspaper reports that it was last sold at auction in 2014, when art historian Bendor Grosvenor bought it as an «English School» work at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury for # 4,2Art Newspaper reports that it was last sold at auction in 2014, when art historian Bendor Grosvenor bought it as an «English School» work at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury for # 4,2art historian Bendor Grosvenor bought it as an «English School» work at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury for # 4,200.

Competitive and sustained bidding at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London resulted in 56 of the 59 lots offered being sold (98 per cent by value), three works realising in excess of # 10 million (including buyer's premium), and a final total of # 96,384,000 / $ 117,781,248.

The Colony Room finally closed its doors in 2008 and these are the last of the company's art works to be sold at auction.

In 2008 Damien Hirst stunned the art world by sidestepping his galleries to sell his works directly at auction.

Helena Newman, the worldwide co-head of Impressionist and Modern Art for Sotheby's, had presided over the first sale of the spring season in London last week, bringing $ 63.7 million for Picasso's «Femme Assise» (1909), the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.