Sentences with phrase «auction record for»

In May 2013, the sale of his 1958 abstract expressionist painting To Fellini for $ 25.8 million set the auction record for a Guston work.

The auction record for a painting by Frankenthaler is the $ 818.500 paid for her 1975 Royal Fireworks at Christie's New York in November 2011.

The auction record for a work by William John Leech was set in 1998, when his oil painting, entitled The Blue Shop, Quimper, was sold at Christie's, in London, for # 265,500.

The auction record for a work by Erskine Nicol was set in 2007, when his marine painting entitled Salmon Fishing was sold at Sotheby's, in London, for # 48,000.

The auction record for a work by Barrie Cooke was set in 2008, when his portrait entitled Seamus Heaney was sold at James Adam's, in Dublin, for $ 28,000.

The auction record for a work by George Campbell was set in 2007, when his landscape painting, entitled Evening In Connemara, was sold at Sotheby's, London, for # 50,400.

The auction record for a work by Thomas Rose Miles was set in 2007, when his landscape painting, entitled Weed Gatherers, West Coast of Ireland, was sold at Christie's, in London, for # 36,000.

The auction record for a work by Richard Brydges Beechey was set in 2000, when his marine history painting, entitled Battle of the Nile, was sold at Sotheby's, in London, for # 63,750.

The auction record for a work by Sean Keating was set in 2005, when his nationalist oil painting, entitled Men of Aran - An Tra Inis Oirr, was sold at James Adams, in Dublin, for $ 190,000.

The auction record for a work by William Crozier was set in 2007, when his landscape painting, entitled The Road West, was sold at Christie's, in London, for # 192,000.

[24] On November 20, 2014, O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed (1932) sold for $ 44,405,000, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist.

The auction record for a work by Colin Davidson was set in 2007, when his genre painting entitled Cafe Window was sold at Sotheby's, in London, for # 31,700.

Twombly's previous auction record for a work on paper was $ 5 million; his auction record for a painting was $ 17.4 million.

The price surpassed the high estimate of and set an auction record for the French artist.

The auction record for a work by the naif Irish painter James Dixon was set in 2001, when his Self - Portrait was sold at Christie's, in London, for # 11,750.

Phillips maintains the world auction record for a work of Brazilian art ($ 2,225,000), achieved by Lygia Clark's Contra Relevo (Objeto N. 7) in 2013.

In September 2012, Christie's, Paris set a new auction record for works by the artist, when his painting Fiddle and Spanish Guitar, executed in oil and gravel on masonite, was sold for $ 3,313,000.

The auction record for a work by Maurice Canning Wilks was set in 2002, when his painting, entitled Connemara Man, was sold at Whytes, in Dublin, for $ 33,000.

In February 2015, Griffin paid $ 46.4 million for a 10 - foot - tall painting by Gerhard Richter at Sotheby's, an auction record for the German artist.

A few minutes later Jeff Koons's sculpture «Balloon Dog (Orange)» fetched $ 58.4 million, an auction record for a living artist.

Calder's 7 1/2 - foot - long mobile «Poisson volant (Flying Fish)» fetched $ 25.9 million, setting an auction record for the American sculptor.

The result was an auction record for the artist, more than doubling his previous high.

After spirited bidding by four people, «Flag» by Jasper Johns, a 17.5 - inch wide American flag painting made from encaustic and silk from 1983, sold for $ 36 million, setting an auction record for the artist.

A single work — Henry Moore's curvaceous, monumental bronze — realized almost as much, 24.7 million pounds, an auction record for the British sculptor and the top lot of a special auction marking the company's 250th anniversary.

The painting would go on to sell for $ 69.6 million to an anonymous phone bidder, setting an auction record for the artist after a five - and - a-half-minute contest.

The top lot of the sales, The entrance to the Turkish Garden Café by Louis Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845) was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum for $ 4,562,500, setting a new world auction record for a work by the artist.

Prince's «Nurse of Greenmeadow» sold for $ 8.6 million, setting an auction record for the American artist.

Varejao holds the auction record for a Brazilian artist with a $ 1.8 million sale of «Wall With Incisions a la Fontana» at Christie's in February 2011.

Chris Ofili's painting of a black Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung that caught the ire of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sold for 2.9 million pounds at Christie's, an auction record for the British artist.

High points included bidding for Mark Bradford's 2013 painting «Biting the Book» that sold for 2.5 million pounds, surpassing its high estimate of 1.5 million pounds and setting an auction record for the American artist.

The Broad paid $ 12 million, an auction record for a Bradford work, at Phillips in London on March 8.

Joan Mitchell's untitled 1960 abstract painting sold for $ 11.9 million, surpassing the high estimate and setting an auction record for the artist.

The final price for Saville's «Shift,» which is almost 11 feet wide by 11 feet tall, was 6.8 million pounds, an auction record for the provocative U.K. painter.

In 2015, «Holy Virgin Mary» fetched $ 4.6 million at Christie's in London and it remains the auction record for Ofili.

But that sale could be self - defeating in more ways than one: By disposing of an important work that should never have left its collection, the Santa Fe museum trounced the previous auction record for O'Keeffe, thereby singlehandedly raising the bar for other works it might hope to acquire.

Danh Vo also gained an auction record for his giant sculpture of copper chains that sold to the dealer Philippe Segalot for $ 629,000.

Making his evening - sale debut at Sotheby's was Lowman, whose «Black Escalade» (2005) fetched $ 665,000, surpassing the high estimate of $ 450,000 and setting an auction record for the artist.

Her 1965 geometric abstract canvas «Cerulean» fetched $ 970,000, surpassing the high estimate and setting an auction record for the Latin American artist.

A Georgia O'Keeffe painting of a white flower set an auction record for a work by a female artist by selling for $ 44.4 million at Sotheby's.

Indonesian artist I Nyoman Masriadi's sarcastic, comic - book style painting «Sorry Hero, I Forgot» of a Batman and a Superman fetched $ HK4.82 million ($ 620,382), a world auction record for the artist and world record for any piece of contemporary Southeast Asian contemporary art.

Roy Lichtenstein's 1964 painting «Sleeping Girl» sold for $ 44.9 million at Sotheby's in New York on May 9, an auction record for the Pop artist.

A Raphael drawing sold for 29.7 million pounds ($ 47.8 million) at Sotheby's in London on Dec. 5, an auction record for a western work on paper.

Another example of this image was sold at Christie's in May 2011 for $ 3,890,500, which represents not only a world auction record for Sherman, but also a world record price for any photograph at the time.

But the bidding remained tempered throughout the rest of the night, and even saw a few stumbles: a late painting of two faces on a collaged background by Jean - Michel Basquiat, who has been a market sure thing in recent months, failed to sell at its $ 5 million - $ 7 milllion estimate, while Cady Noland — who holds the world auction record for a living woman artist ($ 6.6 million)-- had a section of chain - link fence go unsold at $ 500,000 - $ 700,0000.

The result was an auction record for the fashionable Romanian - born artist and the top lot of the week for Christie's.

Last year's tally of $ 178 million was in part driven by hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin's $ 46.4 million purchase of a 1986 abstract canvas, an auction record for the artist.

[11] On November 11, 2014, a 1983 version of Flag was auctioned at Sotheby's in New York for $ 36 million, establishing a new auction record for Johns.

Benefits Supervisor Resting is poised to break the previous auction record for the artist achieved in 2008 with another portrait of the same sitter, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which sold for $ 33.6 million, setting a record at the time for any living artist.

Though Sigmar Polke's Roter Fisch (Red Fish) was projected to be the top lot of the evening with a # 3.5 - 4.5 M estimate, Jenny Saville's Shift shocked the room as it tripled the # 1.5 - 2M estimate, selling for # 6.8 M ($ 9M) and setting a new auction record for the artist.

This week's 20th Century British and Irish Art sale at Bonhams broke the world auction record for a work on paper by Henry Moore.