Sentences with phrase «auction record fell»

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.

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.

Ten world auction records fell, starting with the very first lot of the sale — Wolfgang Tillmans» Freischwimmer 186 (2011) selling for # 269,000 / $ 328,718, eclipsing the previous record of $ 233,000 set in May 2016.

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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.

The inner - city market in aggregate has held up longer in Sydney than in Melbourne, although the latest auction price data recorded a fall.

The company's online division, which includes New Zealand auction site TradeMe, accommodation site Stayz and dating site RSVP, suffered in the tough climate and recorded an 8 % fall in EBITDA.

In addition to breaking sales records, the car was also the top seller for the entire week's worth of Monterey auctions and fell in line with RM Sotheby's pre-sale estimate of «in excess of $ 20,000,000.»

Doubling down on Wednesday night, Phillips and Christie's went back to back on a marathon pair of auctions, Phillips with its 20th Century Sale and Christie's with its Impressionist and Modern sale, that pushed the fall auction week to near completion with surprisingly potent results, including a new auction record for both Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky.

The critics also fall into this trap, because instead of looking at Oscar Murillo's art they are so consumed by the price points and the auction records that they never discuss the work.

In the lead - up to Christie's fall auction, we've highlighted record - breakers and oddities from Phaidon's Going Once, a compendium of 250 legendary, strange, or otherwise remarkable paintings, prints, and objects from Christie's two - and - a-half century history.

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.

In the recent record breaking fall auctions, new records were set for many individual artists including pieces by Fernando Botero (Colombia) and Remedios Varo (Spain / Mexico) while Christie's saw paintings by Botero and Wilfredo Lam go to private Russian Collections.

In a fall auction week that saw eight - figure records for the likes of Frank Stella («Delaware Crossing,» 1961 at Sotheby's for $ 12 million), Cy Twombly («Untitled,» 1968 at Sotheby's for $ 70.53 million), and Roy Lichtenstein («Nurse,» 1964 at Christie's for $ 95.4 million), Gilliam's achievement barely registers.

This photograph shows one of Lucas's Nud sculptures, tangles of body - like protuberances that she makes with leggings; last year one of her photographic works set a new auction record for the artist at Christie's London in the fall, when it fetched nearly a half million dollars.

Brazil's government announced in April that wind power prices fell to the lowest level ever in the country's April 4 auction, nearly reaching the Latin American record set in Mexico last November, Bloomberg News reported.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has released a list of the winners for projects within the eagerly observed 500 MW rooftop auction, with prices falling to record lows, although full capacity details of the projects have not been included within the list.