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Christie's New York achieved the highest total in auction history Tuesday at its postwar and contemporary art sale, which totaled $ 691.6 million, near the high estimate for the night.

In recent years Sotheby's has made auction history with Picasso's Garçon è la pipe and Dora Maar au chat, the two most expensive works sold at auction.

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Smart eyes will find her work outside the evening - sales spotlight; during the day sales at Sotheby's, another Frankenthaler painting with recent auction history, Lexington, nearly tripled its low estimate to fetch $ 1.4 million.

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ARTFIXdaily founder and noted writer Julie Carlson Wildfeuer will provide the featured column each issue on timely topics that will include authoritative comments from scholars and dealers as well as auction histories for works being discussed.

-- Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud could bring in $ 85 million (or much more) next month at Christie's — an all - time high for the artist and, potentially, for auction history if it manages to surpass the $ 120 million that Edvard Munch's The Scream brought in last year.

The Starbucks of artistic gentrification, as Smith's has been called, made auction history thanks to his canvases with layered oil paint and detritus like newspaper and aluminum pie plates.

This month, a contemporary art sale at Christie's in New York brought in $ 495 million — the highest total in auction history.

With that in mind, it is worth looking at Guyton's recent auction history to see why it has become the backdrop for Guyton's dramatic market maneuvers.

Auction records were available in the Sotheby's library, and when a picture of note came in, she diligently searched the Art Price Index to see if it had auction history.

Under Gorvy's leadership, Christie's broke barriers: it was the first auction house to surpass $ 200 million in Post-War and Contemporary Art sales in one evening, then $ 400 million, $ 600 million, and finally $ 800 million with the November 2014 Evening sale, which realized $ 852 million — the highest sales total in auction history.

The painting also has an auction history.

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.

It is the second time this year that Christie's has broken the highest total in auction history,» said Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art.

The auction house's post-war and contemporary art evening sale realised $ 852.9 million, the largest total in auction history.

In this post, we'll look at the auction history of the handful of similar color charts and the broader market history for Richter.

With 72 works, the sale was expected to bring in the region of half a billion dollars, the same amount the house sold last May — when it achieved what was at the time the highest total in auction history.

In 2015, a Reclining Nude by Modigliani became the second most expensive artwork in auction history.

Tellingly, at a time when the totals at evening sales of contemporary art are becoming ever - more bloated by financial guarantees — Christie's evening sale of May 13 took in $ 744.9 million, the highest total in art - auction history — Mr. Dolman was wary of Phillips entering an arms race to secure the most valuable eight - figure auction lots, which can yield auction houses little in the way of profit.

The triumphant Evening sale on May 15th raised an unmatched $ 495,021,500 (# 326,714,190 / $ 386,116,770)-- the highest total in auction history, setting an astonishing 16 new auction records for the foremost artists of the last six decades, with 3 works sold above $ 40 million, 9 above $ 10 million and 23 above $ 5 million.

«That doesn't seem to be in line with Nam June Paik's auction history,» said a former auction specialist, who is now an advisor.

(Her auction history, meanwhile, is nearly nonexistent because her collectors are too smart to part with her work.)

Diego Rivera's The Rivals also established a new world auction record for the artist, and in the process became the highest priced Latin American artwork in auction history.