Sentences with phrase «artwork sold at auction»

After much speculation prior to the sale Scottish artist Peter Doig's Country - Rock (wing - mirror) sold for well under $ 17 + million leaving Damien Hirst's Golden Calf undefeated in being the most expensive artwork sold at auction by a British artist.

Francis Bacon's «Three Studies of Lucian Freud» became the most expensive artwork sold at auction, fetching $ 142.4 million at Christie's in New York on Nov. 12.

Bacon's Freud triptych holds the record for the most expensive artwork sold at auction.

The results are a far cry from Christie's glittering sale of Asian contemporary artwork in Hong Kong in May, which broke numerous records for Chinese, Japanese and Korean artists, with Zeng Fanzhi's «Mask Series 1996 No. 6» fetching US$ 9.7 million, the most expensive Asian contemporary artwork sold at auction.

Hotel magnate Elaine Wynn was apparently the one behind the $ 142m buy of Three Studies of Lucian Freud painting by Francis Bacon in 2013, the most expensive artwork sold at auction at that point.

Together with Amy Cappellazzo, he co-led the post-war and contemporary department and was responsible for many of the auction house's biggest hauls — among them, the 2004 sale of Pablo Picasso's Garçon à la pipe (1905) that first broke the $ 100 - million mark and the $ 179 - million Picasso, Les Femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)(1955), that currently holds the record for most expensive artwork sold at auction.

Francis Bacon's painting Three Studies of Lucien Freud (1969) sells at Christie's auction house in New York City for more than $ 142 million, the highest price to date for an artwork sold at auction.

Phillips has a client who placed an irrevocable bid, guaranteeing that the 6.6 - foot - wide artwork sells at auction, the company said.

Not exact matches

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

Auction items: artwork, handcrafted items, etc which could be sold online or at one of our live events

It set a new auction record for the artist and became the sixth most expensive artwork ever to sell at auction.

It is the single most expensive artwork ever to sell at auction.

In November last year, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 set the world record for an artwork by a woman when it sold for $ 44.4 million (# 28m) at auction in New York.

In November 2016, Lawren Harris's iconic Mountain Forms (1926) sold at auction in Toronto for a record $ 11.21 million, the highest price paid for a Canadian artwork to date.

It is the current world record for a single artwork by a living artist ever sold at an auction ($ 58.4 million).

The intriguing works of the English artist have also been ever - present in the world's marketplace and at art auctions, while the number of her sold artworks exponentially growing over the years.

If you wish to purchase artwork made at Haystack you may do so during one of our session auctions or our summer auction in which works donated by faculty, students, and staff are sold to fund scholarship programs and studio improvements.

Just look at his market: at Christie's in November he set a new world record when Red and Pink (1950) sold for $ 4.9 million, and every single artwork of his that went under the hammer in the season's auctions fetched at least twice its estimate.

In the»80s, she emerged as conceptual artist in the feminist art movement of the time, and since then her artwork — typically black - and - white photographic images, some as large as a billboard, with stripes of provocatively worded type on top of them — has become highly prized, one piece selling for nearly $ 1 million at a recent auction.

Between May 8 and 12, 2016, as many as nine auction sales took place at three of the biggest houses selling Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary artworks today and, to say the very least, it was an exciting time.

Several artworks toppled records throughout the night — most dramatically Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969, which sold for $ 142.4 million to beat out Edvard Munch's The Scream as the most expensive piece of art ever to be sold at auction.

That Picasso painting Women of Algiers (Version O) has broken the world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

In May, Pablo Picasso's «Les Femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)» sold for $ 179.4 million, breaking the record for the highest price ever paid for a piece of artwork at auction.

Saatchi Sells Big — The English supercollector Charles Saatchi will auction 50 large - scale artworks in a selling exhibition at Christie's London during Frieze Week.

After Bacon's triptych sold for a record - breaking $ 142 million, we look at the world's most expensive artworks to have sold at auction

Five works will be sold at auction on May 16 and 17, while two extremely large artworks — Warhol's «Hearts» and the Rauschenberg — will be put up for private sale.

The Picasso set a new world record for the most expensive artwork to be sold at auction after reaching $ 179m (# 115m).

Artwork sold at benefit auction for L'Aquila's earthquake victims 2013: NOoSPHERE Arts Gallery, New York + artist book presentation 2012: Francesco Fabbri Prize for contemporary arts, Francesco Fabbri Foundation, Pieve di Soligo 2012: «Senza Titolo», curated by Luca Panaro, Marche Centro D'Arte, S. Benedetto del Tronto 2012: «A House Is Not A Home,» Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia (as Vênus et Milö) 2012: «Open Art Defender,» Arte Fiera Art First, Bologna 2011: «Zootropio,» a project by Vênus et Milö, Bologna 2011: «Kokoro,» benefit Japan exhibition and sale, Camera16 Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Milan 2011: Fotografia Europea, Amarillo Art Gallery, Reggio Emilia 2010: Special Mention, Lens Based Art Show, Osservatorio Gualino, Turin 2010: «The Exhibition Lab,» Foley Gallery and Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York City 2010: Festival International de l'Image Environnementale (FIIE), La Villette, Paris 2010: «Fools Rush In,» promoted by APA NY and Win - Initiative, BathHouse Studios, New York City 2009: «Dimensione massima 10 × 12,» curated by 3/3 and cameraoscura, FotoGrafia Festival, Rome 2009: «Viaggi Sentimentali,» SpazioFarini6 Gallery, part of Photofestival, Milan 2008: «Out of Berlin... Pass the Picture,» curated by Alex Moh in collaboration with Goethe Institut Malaysia, Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 2008: «A New Outlook On The World,» curated by Julian Cox and Jane Jackson, Shepherd Center, Atlanta (GA)

Francis Bacon himself had used the photograph in painting the triptych «Three Studies of Lucian Freud» 1969, which last year become the most expensive artwork ever sold at an auction after fetching $ 142m.

[11] In 1988, Johns» False Start was sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $ 17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for a work by a living artist at auction, and the second highest price paid for an artwork at auction in the U.S. [32] In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago - based hedge fund Citadel LLC) bought False Start (1959) from David Geffen [33] for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.

On Monday, Christie's sold Amedeo Modigliani's painting of a reclining nude woman for $ 170.4 million, the second - highest price for an artwork at auction, to Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian.

True, sellers remain reticent, with noticeably fewer top quality artworks at Sotheby's and Christie's, but New York auction receipts are significantly up (Sotheby's by 300 percent over 2009) and even if most lots are selling within their heavily reduced pre-sale estimates, interest is slowly beginning to build.

While the Christie's auction was steeped in work by Abstract Expressionist painters like Rothko, whose 1961 canvas «Orange, Red, Yellow» sold for nearly $ 87 million — a record for any contemporary artwork at auction — the Sotheby's sale had a different emphasis, with several top examples of Pop Art.

In addition, Doig's artworks have been regularly sold at major auctions for very high prices.

The record for the most valuable artwork ever sold at auction had been held by Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969, oil on canvas in three parts.

The event featured amazing artwork contributed by Creative Capital grantees, including these three pieces by Edgar Arceneaux, Sam Van Aken and Paul Shambroom, which were sold in a live auction at the event.

On Wednesday, Alberto Giacometti's sculpture «Walking Man I» sold at Sotheby's for just over $ 104.3 million, the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction.

An untitled Jean - Michel Basquiat skull painting from 1982 sold for USD$ 110.5 m with fees to the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, marking the highest price at auction for a post-1980 artwork, the second - highest price for any contemporary work at auction and the sixth - highest price for any work sold at auction, in a sale at Sotheby's.

The artist is best - known for her Turner - nominated artwork, «My Bed», and a tent embroidered with the names of many of her lovers, called «Everyone I Have Ever Slept With» — the unmade bed covered in debris which she exhibited at Tate Britain after she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999 went on to sell for # 2.2 million at auction in July of this year.

By selling the artwork at auction, Muniz managed to raise $ 300,000, all of which was given to the Association of Collectors of the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho (ACAMJG), an organization led by Tiao Santos that organizes and protects the collectors.