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«Looking Forward to the Past» was the creation of Loic Gouzer, Christie's contemporary specialist, whose auction of 35 works by on - trend contemporary artists — called «If I Live I'll See You Tuesday» — raised $ 134.6 million for the auction house last May.

The auction house last night was unable to surpass its record set Nov. 4, when $ 422 million of Impressionist and modern art was sold.

A painting, sold by the Jiuge International Auction House last year, as a masterpiece by the Chinese 20th century painter Xu Beihong, is now thought to be a fake.

Not exact matches

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

Last week, Christie's Auction House here in New York City transported a lot of money out of the pockets of Star Trek fans for show memorabilia.

The carrot for the crooks is mighty pretty: the fabled Florentine, a 137 - carat yellow diamond last seen in 1918, which has resurfaced and is up for sale in an exclusive Antwerp auction house.

The 18th annual Aston Martin Sale, held at Aston Martin Works in Newport Pagnell and hosted by international auction house Bonhams, achieved over # 5 Million last weekend.

Last Wednesday, a Paris auction house sold two newly discovered pages from Antoine St. Exupery's beloved classic, Le Petit Prince.

In checking my credit score last month I still had a high credit score and the Mortgage Co., showed all those months from Jan 09 to March 10, as late but once the house was auctioned it shows paid.

Last night, in a former museum turned event space in Jacksonville, Florida, gamers, artists, cosplayers, musicians and breakdancers — yes, breakdancers — came together for the 2016 GAAM Show, a house party cum charity art auction.

Since then, the auction houses have jumped on the bandwagon, with Christie's singling out the works of abstractionists Ding Yi and Wang Guangle among several others in promotion for its Hong Kong fall sale last September.

Tracey Emin and Gillian Wearing were among the high profile artists to turn up to the gala viewing and silent auction held at Somerset House last night.It was a well organised -LSB-...]

Finally, the last, sixth auction that we will follow next week will be Urban Art: Grafitti and Street Art auction at Galartis auction house in Lausanne — Crissier Switzerland (Art Urbain: Graffiti Et Street Art).

The proceeds from last night's opening, including ticket sales and a silent auction, will be donated to Lotus House, a shelter for homeless women and infants just a few blocks away from PULSE.

In addition to bringing in Amy Cappellazzo's art advisory business last year, Sotheby's recently acquired Orion Analytical, the art - authentication firm; the Mei Moses Art Indices, which monitor the auction business; and hired Christy MacLear, the chief executive of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, to help the auction house expand its advisory services for living artists and for artists» estates and foundations.

Christie's auction house, which last year sold the most expensive painting ever, has once again broken a record this April, although perhaps for slightly more modest price tags.

Sutherland tried to consign one of the fakes to Sotheby's last year, but the auction house questioned the work's authenticity and contacted Mr. Hirst's studio in London, Science Ltd. that deemed the painting fake.

It has been held in the sam family for nearly a century and is likely to be one of the last of these works still in private hands (as the auction houses love to intimate.)

Drawing on the huge success of the last two years, 47 participants — 44 galleries and three auction houses — will show an impressive selection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from antiquity to the present day.

Man Tries to Sell Stolen Sean Scully Painting Through Auction House Who Alerted the Painter: According to the NYPost, «Arturo Rucci, 50, ripped off Sean Scully's painting — valued at $ 400 - 600,000 — and tried selling it last month, cops said.»

Ever since the piece was sold at the auction, the art world was speculating about the mystery bidder who took home the work after a protracted contest lasting nearly 20 minutes at the auction house.

Though last fall's New York sale was overshadowed by artist Mark Grotjahn's social media shout out that Phillips's lot attributed to him with an asking price of $ 20 - 30,000 wasn't actually his work — prompting the auction house to drop it from its offerings — its London New Now sales in December were its strongest to date.

For those who think the art market is simply manipulated by the auction houses and galleries, here is a long lasting painter who has the support of three very prominent galleries.

The auction house has also announced its first sale of modern and contemporary African art, to be held in its London saleroom next month (16 May), saying there had been «exponential increase in market demand» for this field over the last decade.

Late in the last decade, the auction houses made a conscious decision to relocate Chinese Contemporary art sales to Hong Kong in both an offensive and defensive move.

On a gray Sunday last October, during Frieze Week in London, Phillips auction house opened its new headquarters in a 73,000 - square - foot building on tony Berkeley Square, with renovations by architects Aukett Swanke.

This, despite a moderately successful sale in London last month, where Jean - Michel Basquiat's Hannibal (1982) was the most expensive lot of the Frieze London sales across three auction houses.

Last October Christie's held its first event in Abu Dhabi, following the lead of other auction houses such as Sotheby's, which began holding biannual sales in the region in 2006.

Sotheby's CEO Tad Smith announced in this morning's quarterly earnings call that the auction house will post a net loss of $ 54.5 million for the third quarter of this year, a deficit significantly larger than the adjusted net loss of $ 17.9 million last year in the same quarter.

Squeaking past its high estimate of $ 11.5 million to become the night's number - two sale was Doig's 8 - foot - wide landscape painting Road House (1991), which set a record at $ 11,925,000, edging by his previous auction high of $ 11,899,378, set last year at Christie's London.

But those looking for the kind of three - ring - circus that defined last November's contemporary sale at the house — where Francis Bacons's three - panel study of Lucian Freud became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, selling for $ 142.4 million — must have been disappointed.

Last summer, François Pinault, the French billionaire, whose empire includes Christie's auction house, hired her as chief curator for his collection and museums in Venice — the Palazzo Grassi and Punta Della Dogana, a 17th - century customhouse.

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.

Some analysts said they see an increasing emphasis on private sales among auction houses seeking to improve their margins, though Christie's private sales were down 33 percent for the first half of last year.

Cortright's prices and visibility have been climbing, according to Rebekah Bowling, head of «New Now» contemporary art sales at Phillips auction house, which set a record for Cortright last year, selling one of her works for $ 56,250, double the low estimate.

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The auction house tallied $ 1.2 billion in sales in two weeks of Impressionist, modern, postwar and contemporary art last month.

The sales that began last week at auction houses in New York, with more than $ 2.1 billion of art on offer, are the biggest test of the trade since stocks tumbled in August and September, unnerving investors.

The tally yesterday in New York surpassed the auction house's results in November of $ 691.6 million and last May's total of $ 495 million for postwar and contemporary artworks.

The fair comes on the heels of a record - setting season in New York, where auction houses sold $ 2.2 billion of modern, Impressionist, postwar and contemporary art last month.

At the auction house's last big contemporary art sale in October, work by German artists accounted for more than 43 % — nearly # 21m — of the sale total.

Sotheby's placed under the hammer the prestigious collection of Rachel «Bunny» Mellon on Monday night, the auction houses experts called the collection — of modern and contemporary works that spanned 400 years - «one of the last great private American collections formed in the 20th century.»

Last year, Phillips auction house sued a Chinese businessman and collector Zhang Chang for his refusal to honor a guarantee of $ 24 million in a 2016 sale on a 1963 Gerhard Richter painting, Dusenjager, and in 2016, Christie's filed a $ 32 million lawsuit against collector Jose Mugrabi for not paying for a 1981 painting The Field Next to the Other Road by Jean - Michel Basquiat.

The artist Douglas Gordon last week discovered that one of his sculptures, with an insurance value of around # 500,000, was stolen from a Christie's auction house.

As the biggest week - long concentration of art events in Europe ended yesterday, dealers at Frieze Art Fair individually reported brisk sales and the tallies at the auction houses almost doubled from last year's October sales.

Last year they bought the most expensive contemporary lots at both auction houses, paying # 24m for a Roy Lichtenstein at Christie's and # 39m for a Clyfford Still at Sotheby's.

It began as the term «Urban Market» used by the advertising industry to define members of the Hip Hop buying public, and now has been retrofit by the auction houses for use in their large generalized auctions that began to appear during the Street Art boom of the last decade.

Christie's contemporary evening sale made history last night in grand style, storming through its 72 lots to realize a world record $ 495 Million sales total that included new auction records for Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean - Michel Basquiat, and 13 other artists, aided auction house's impressively assembled catalog.

The only problem is that these previews typically last only a few days (let's not even get into the auction houses» abysmal hanging techniques).

This program has been going on for the last four years, with these tiny houses eventually sold at auctions each year.