Sentences with phrase «auction houses increasingly»

For instance: auction houses increasingly feel like high - stakes horse betting.

The rising importance of private sales for auction houses increasingly puts them in competition with dealers — and means that there is also increasingly an overlap in the skill sets necessary to work in each sphere.

Not exact matches

People talk about auctions because the big auction houses are in N.Y., and auctions have increasingly become central to art.

They have attained the status of «art world superstars,» as such figures are commonly called today, for continuing Baldessari's mission of raiding mass - produced entertainment in such a direct, unmediated way that it has become increasingly unclear what sets their photographs, collages, paintings, videos, and installations apart from the commercial products they are «appropriating,» except for the fact that their work is displayed in art galleries and museums and auction houses.

As Lévy's and Gorvy's backgrounds attest, the lines dividing the various sectors of the art world — from galleries to auction houses to museums — are increasingly blurred.

The change is a reflection of the fact that the auction houses (and their private sales arms) are increasingly wresting four - star goods away from the dealers.

In 2016, he engineered the acquisition of the high - powered advisory firm Art Agency, Partners, for $ 50 million in cash, which has likely helped to grow the house's work in private sales, once the province of dealers and now an increasingly important source of revenue for auction companies.

Auction houses played an increasingly important role as sellers of contemporary art after 1973, when the auction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull — some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid — garnered more than $ 2.2 mAuction houses played an increasingly important role as sellers of contemporary art after 1973, when the auction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull — some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid — garnered more than $ 2.2 mauction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull — some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid — garnered more than $ 2.2 million.

This perennial darling of the art gallery and the auction house, so irreverent and unpredictable in his own time, increasingly registers as tame, tasteful, and non-threatening in our own.

MARQUIS WORKS BY AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS are increasingly showing up at major auction houses.

, Futura, Praga 2015 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Benefit Auction 2015 «Interregnum», Rob Tufnell, Londra 2015 «Under a Thawing Lake», Città del Messico 2015 Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Hollywood Hills House, Los Angeles, CA 2014 «Corruption Feeds» curated show by Will Benedict, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen 2014 «Increasingly Skeptical Bodies Begin to Come Forward», Welcome Screen, Londra 2014 «The Office», curated by Pierre - Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou, ACL Partners, Parigi 2014 «RRBGGGRWW (polysemes)», Grand Century, New York City, NY 2014 «Puppies Puppies ft. Martin Creed», Important Projects, Oakland, 2014 Bed - stuy Love Affair Benefit Auction, Brooklyn, NY 2014 «Lena Youkhana + Puppies Puppies», PeregrineProgram, Chicago, IL 2014 «Are You Thinking About Atlantis?»

The 38 - lot sale sees a continuation of the auction house's aggressive push towards a stronger market share, with increasingly competitive works looking to make waves in a week of already landmark pieces.