Here's a look
at previous auctions, how much they raised and who the biggest spenders were.
If a lot was purchased
at a previous auction, you can find out how much the work was acquired for.
Not exact matches
The six - day
auction ends tonight
at 10:30 E.T., and the bidding war heated up on Friday afternoon, with offers of nearly triple the
previous day's bids.
A Harley - Davidson sold
at auction on Thursday for almost 20 times its estimated value — because its
previous owner was the pope.
The bids started jumping in increments of $ 10 million, and almost immediately reached $ 225 million, far surpassing the
previous record for a sale
at auction: the $ 179.4 million paid for Picasso's «Women of Algiers»
at Christie's in 2015.
The
previous record for a painting sold
at auction was in 2015 for one of the 15 versions of Picasso's «Les Femmes d'Alger», the gavel falling
at $ 180 million.
A look
at the latest
auction result makes the
previous auction look like one from another world and another time.
The sale broke the
previous record price for a work of art
at auction, Picasso's 1905» Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice).»
Two special lots raise $ 99,000 for the Sonoma County Vintners Emergency Relief Fund Santa Rosa, CA (April 20, 2018)-- A record - setting $ 840,700 was raised today, up six percent over the
previous year,
at the Fourth Annual Sonoma County Barrel
Auction at MacMurray Estate Vineyards ™.
Trade - weighted prices for all products and across all contracts
at yesterday's Global Dairy Trade
auction were down 6.7 per cent from the
previous event two weeks ago.
The latter has reportedly struggled to finance his latest film, even attempting to
auction off the Palme d'Or he won
at the 2013 Cannes film festival for his
previous film Blue Is the Warmest Colour.
Instead of being
auctioned like
previous WD - 40 / SEMA Cares vehicles, the WD - 40 / SEMA Cares Foose Ford F - 150 off - road truck that was revealed
at the 2013 SEMA Show is now available through a raffle
at $ 50 per ticket.
The
auction aims to raise much - needed funds
at a time when Cats Protection's adoptions have slumped to a new low, with 2,000 less cats being adopted during 2012 than the
previous year.
That handily trouncing its high estimate of $ 7 million and also demolished the
previous record for a Rivera
at auction, which was set when $ 3.08 million was paid for Baile en Tehuantepec (1928), sold by IBM
at Sotheby's in New York in May 1995.
That handily trouncing its high estimate of $ 7 million and also demolished the
previous record for a Rivera
at auction, which was set when $ 3.08 million was paid for
The
previous record for a painting by the artist
at auction was $ 40.9 million, which was set in 2009
at Christie's in Paris when a 1911 painting by the French master was offered with a similar impressive provenance, coming from the collection Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.
The
previous auction record for a painting by Marshall was set in November 2014 when «Vignette» (2003), an acrylic on fiberglass, sold for $ 1,025,000 (including fees), also
at Christie's.
That's what happened with Roy Lichtenstein's «Nurse,» which was purchased in November
at Christie's for $ 95.4 million — an
auction record for the artist that was 70 percent higher than the
previous high two years earlier.
According to Phillips, Kaphar's
previous high mark was set Dec. 15, 2015, when an early painting by the artist sold
at Swann
Auction Galleries in New York.
The price set a new
auction record for the Los Angeles - based artist, whose
previous high mark was achieved
at Christie's New York with «See Alice Jump.»
Previous New Sensations judges, Mat Collishaw, Chantal Joffe, Hew Locke and Yinka Shonibare, have each donated a work that will be in a blind
auction at the exhibition.
You see,
at the Phillips
auction the
previous day, the Weston photograph was estimated
at $ 5,000 to $ 7,000, and was sold for $ 6,250, while the same photograph was on offer
at another booth
at AIPAD for close to $ 10,000!
Getty Acquires Gentileschi's Danaë for $ 30.5 million
at Sotheby's The J.Paul Getty Museum has acquired Orazio Gentileschi's Danaë for more than seven times the artist's
previous auction record.
In 2012, Diebenkorn's Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1971 became the most expensive picture by the artist ever
auctioned when it went for $ 13.25 million
at Christie's New York, dwarfing the
previous record set
at Christie's when an Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1980 made $ 7.69 million.
Artwork by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Julien Schnabel have been
auctioned at previous galas.
The
previous year, buyers had been playing it relatively safe
at auction, buying works by Yves Klein and Robert Rauschenberg.
If you've thought that the
previous auction at Bonhams had a lot of money engaged, than brace yourselves: as every Evening
auction, this one
at Sotheby's New York will have the premium lots that cost a lot of money.
(The
previous auction record for Spencer was # 1,320,000 ($ 2,161,454) and this was achieved for his The Crucifixion, which sold
at Sotheby's in London in 1990.
A few minutes later, the eighth record fell when Bricolage by Carol Rama, whose
previous world
auction record had only been set in October 2016 during The Italian Sale
at Christie's, sold for # 185,000 / $ 226,000.
Los Angeles - based Bradford's
previous auction record was set more than two years ago when «Constitution IV» sold
at Phillips London for # 3,778,500 ($ 5,743,320 million) on Oct. 14, 2015.
«Helter Skelter» surpassed this
previous record, elevating Bradford's work to the most expensive ever by a living African American artist
at auction.
Before bids began, the mural - sized painting was positioned to reach a record result with the estimate set
at approximately $ 8.3 million — $ 11 million, which far exceeded Bradford's
previous auction high mark.
The artist's
previous auction record was set on July 1, 2014, when «Afrosheen,» a barbershop painting executed in 2009, sold
at Christie's London for # 1,314,500 including fees (approximately $ 2.2 million).
That figure doesn't come near Christie's record - toppling $ 692 million total the
previous night, but it does establish a record as the highest - grossing sale ever
at the
auction house.
Lot 5, «Drops,» by Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) set a world
auction record for the artist of $ 110,500, almost doubling his
previous set
at Christie's last November.
The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sold for a historic $ 450,312,500, superseding the
previous world record for the most expensive work of art
at auction.
A world
auction record was set for Marlene Dumas whose «Wet Dreams» sold for $ 332,300, a bit over the
previous record of $ 308,445 set
at Christie's in London in June, 2003.
Lot 58, a large untitled 1968 sculpture by Alexander Calder sold for $ 5,831,750, breaking the
previous world
auction record for the artist of $ 4,185,750 set
at Sotheby's November 14, 2000.
Lot 38, «Achrome,» by Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963), sold for $ 1,015,500, breaking the artist's
previous auction record when the same monochrome work of kaolin on burlap was sold for $ 914,442
at Sotheby's London Dec. 9, 1998.
Lot 44, «Golden Eye Table,» by Ettore Sottass (b. 1917), sold for $ 30,550, a world
auction record for the artist, breaking his
previous record of $ 24,652 set
at Christie's in South Kensington last June.
The
previous auction record of $ 830,750 was set
at Sotheby's November 14, 2000.
The sales total for $ 15,173,140 compared to the
previous night's evening
auction at Sotheby's that totalled a bit more than $ 27 million.
Last week, it was announced that all
previous auction records had been smashed as Leonardo da Vinci's infamous Salvator Mundi sold
at a commercial
auction at Christie's for an eye - watering $ 400million.
It sold for $ 160,000, almost doubling the
previous auction record for the artist of $ 88,125 set
at Christie's May 18, 2001.
The
previous auction record for Still was $ 1,710,750 set
at Sotheby's May 17, 2000.
His
previous auction record was $ 72,020, set
at Sotheby's in London last June.
Her
previous auction record was $ 85,000 set last November
at Christie's.
His «Three Candles (Drei Kerzen)», a 1982 oil on canvas 49 1/4 by 59 1/2 inches sold
at Sothebys for May 15, 2001 for $ 5,395,750, breaking the
previous world
auction record for the artist of $ 4,956,000 (see The City Review article).
His
previous auction record was $ 783,500 set
at Sotheby's last November.
His
previous auction record was $ 376,500 set a year ago
at Christie's.