Sentences with phrase «auction record»

The phrase "auction record" refers to the highest amount of money ever paid for a specific item or artwork at an auction. Full definition
With an estimate of $ 16 - 20 million, the painting is positioned to realize a new world auction record for the artist.
The two top prices also set world auction records for the artists.
It set a new auction record for the artist and became the sixth most expensive artwork ever to sell at auction.
It sold for 3.1 million pounds, more than five times its high estimate and more than doubling the artist's previous auction record of 1.4 million pounds.
But although they may not be setting auction records with their purchases, many are exploring and collecting lesser - known artists.
This is a record for its artist, who surpassed his previous auction record of 1.9 million pounds.
The sale of 82 artworks broke auction records for the works of 16 artists and nearly doubled the highest total for such a sale of postwar art.
But a handful of recent auction records for younger and emerging women artists suggest there may be hope yet.
As a departmental specialist, she has been closely involved in numerous auction records by leading British and European artists as well as several Private Sales.
He rose to international star status when one of his paintings broke the international auction record for a living artist.
Lots 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, and 13 set new worldwide auction records for their respective artists.
Few auction records existed for African American artists at the time.
Both of his previous auction records came from paintings in this series as well.
The total hammer price, which included the buyer premium and all fees came to just north of $ 84 million and thus set a new world auction record for the artist.
A controversial history warrants a hefty price tag — a new auction record for the artist, in fact.
The picture's price tag is more than double the previous auction record for the artist.
The painting was sold to an overseas buyer for more than five times the # 1 million low estimate, setting a world auction record for the artist.
Our sales have established some of the highest international auction records.
(1968), Lot 13, now holds the world auction record at $ 68,750.
In May 2011, $ 3,895 million was paid for Cindy Sherman's Untilted 96 established a new auction record when $ 3,895 million in May 2011 at Christie's New York, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold; a record held until November 2011.
THE HIGHEST TOTAL EVER AT CHRISTIE»S IN THIS CATEGORY MULTIPLE ARTIST AUCTION RECORDS SET including: Hendra Gunawan, I Nyoman Masriadi, and Le Pho.
In addition to Parreno and Pendleton — and, of course, Leonardo — other artists who achieved auction records were Vija Celmins, Isamu Noguchi, and Kerry James Marshall.
Lot 23, «Archilles and the Tortoise,» by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), sold for $ 999,500, soaring above the artist's former auction record of $ 242,000.
Six of the first 10 works presented during the evening established auction records for artists including Henry Taylor, Imi Knoebel, Albert Oehlen and Gerald Laing.
In addition to these landmark achievements, Phillips holds auction records for artists including León Ferrari, Zília Sánchez, Lygia Pape, Amelia Peláez, Doris Salcedo, Olga de Amaral, Os Gêmeos, Jac Leirner, Antonio Dias, Roberto Obregón, Damián Ortega, Tania Bruguera, Tomás Saraceno and Nelson Leirner.
Wednesday evening's auction of post-war and contemporary art made a grand total of $ 380.6 m (# 237.1 m), Sotheby's highest total ever, with auction records set by artists such as Cy Twombly and Brice Marden.
The winner of the night and one of the 55 sold lots was Constantin Brancusi's La muse endorse from 1913, which sold for a world auction record price of $ 57,367,500 to a client in the room after 9 minutes of bidding.
Still's prices catapulted since then, with the current auction record at $ 61.7 million, according to Artnet.
Picasso was the top lot and one of six artists who set personal auction records in the sale.
Considering the past several outings for the auction houses in London and New York, where only a handful of buyers were reportedly keeping the market afloat, this week's sales hit a different note entirely, with ample phone bids that saw one major auction record fall with Constantin Brancusi's La Muse Endormie demolishing expectations at over $ 57 million, and marquee lots performing quite well over the course of the evening.
The first to arrive in modern times was Zhang Daqian, a master of ink painting considered the «Picasso of the East,» whose auction record stands at $ 24.5 million, achieved at Sotheby's Hong Kong in May 2011.
Later, after meeting Ethan, the couple bought a painting by Gober's friend Christopher Wool, whose auction record soared to $ 7.7 million last year.
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She sells well, too, breaking her own auction record at Christie's this month, when her self - portrait from 1997, Fighting Fire with Fire (6 Pack), fetched # 290,500.4 Finally, the public at the Whitechapel seem to love her early works.
Now $ 50m is expected (the artist's auction record stands at $ 56m).
The sale broke several auction records, including that of Jean Genet Masturbating in Metteray Prison, a 1984 screenprint by David Wojnarowicz, which reached $ 10,000, a record for any print by the artist.
The works in his overcrowded Manhattan office were always outstanding examples of leading artists, including an extraordinary Chamberlain that I predicted in The Art Economist magazine would set an all - time auction record, which it did!
The less fortunate school friend, never went to college in the end but not due to lack of means but rather due to early retirement as his inherited dilapidated family building broke auction records as Mouille Point collected it's residential property title of the Golden Mile during the property boom.
> Goya prints break records telegraph > Auction record smashed for Spanish cubist artist Juan Gris at Christie's in London artdaily
Henry Taylor's world auction record fell for a second time in five months, both times at Christie's, when Terri Philips, an acrylic and collage on canvas from 2011, sold for # 149,000 / $ 182,078.
Strong results were reported this week for pop art and abstract expressionists, including auction records for 12 artists.
2) Willem de Kooning Untitled XXV topped the artist's previous auction record selling for $ 66,327,500 inc..
LAMA set the word auction record for any work by Joe Goode on May 19, 2013 with Untitled (from Vandalism Series)(1977) realzing $ 175,000.
NEW YORK - A 500 - year - old work of art — believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci and depicting Jesus Christ — sold in New York on Wednesday for $ 450.3 million, smashing a new art auction record, Christi...
It was a record for the artist, according to sales results and auction records kept by multiple sources including Blouin Art Sales Index and Iris Index.
Prouty points out that other female Abstract Expressionists who made auction records, albeit at a lower level, in the boom years before 2008, who do not enjoy the strong international gallery representation of these three, have not seen these prices sustained.
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Her concrete chair works sell privately for between $ 700,000 - $ 900,000, while the top auction record was $ 365,000 in 2014.
Museums are still catering to famous male artists, and auction records reflect on longstanding predilections for works made by white men.
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