Sentences with phrase «auction record for the artist of»

It sold for $ 1,879,500, breaking the former auction record for the artist of $ 1,707,500.

A 1970 painting from Cy Twombly's Blackboard series set an auction record for the artist of $ 69.6 m (# 44.17 m), and a 1960 Yayoi Kusama infinity net painting White No. 28, sold for $ 7.1 (# 4.51).

Lot 5, «Drops,» by Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) set a world auction record for the artist of $ 110,500, almost doubling his previous set at Christie's last November.

Lot 58, a large untitled 1968 sculpture by Alexander Calder sold for $ 5,831,750, breaking the previous world auction record for the artist of $ 4,185,750 set at Sotheby's November 14, 2000.

Lot 45, «Falcon,» by Ellsworth Kelly, a 1959 work, sold for $ 1,078,500, breaking the world auction record for the artist of $ 805,500 set at Sotheby's Nov. 1, 1994.

It sold for $ 160,000, almost doubling the previous auction record for the artist of $ 88,125 set at Christie's May 18, 2001.

His «Three Candles (Drei Kerzen)», a 1982 oil on canvas 49 1/4 by 59 1/2 inches sold at Sothebys for May 15, 2001 for $ 5,395,750, breaking the previous world auction record for the artist of $ 4,956,000 (see The City Review article).

It sold for $ 298,700, breaking the previous world auction record for the artist of $ 46,000 set at Sotheby's in 1993.

A bidding war between a Russian collector and an Indian collector saw the 3 to 5 million pound estimate of El Greco's «Saint Dominic in Prayer» almost double to reach an auction record for the artist of # 9,154,500 or about $ 14,000,000 USD.

Not exact matches

Sotheby's sold «Reclining Nude,» an Amedeo Modigliani painting of a naked brunette lounging on tousled bedsheets, for an artist record, making it one of the few paintings to surpass $ 150 million at auction.

A statue of Hitler on his knees was auctioned Sunday for $ 17.2 million, a record for a work by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

The artist's current auction record, for the 1987 — 89 piece Mexico Crucifix, is $ 312,500, set at a Christie's day sale of contemporary art last November.

Tonight at Christie's sale of 19th - and 20th - century works from the collection of the late Peggy and David Rockefeller, Henri Matisse's Odalisque couchée aux magnolias (1923) went for $ 80.8 million, a record for a work by the artist at auction.

The record for a work by the artist at auction is the $ 1.3 million paid for the oil painting The Valencia Wall, 2006, at Sotheby's in London in July of last year, far surpassing the estimate of $ 686,000 / 881,500.

Like the auction - record $ 82.5 million paid in 1990 for van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890), eight - figure sums typically are reserved for works by artists no longer with us.

Her latest canvases in bold, colorful patterns, which she completes at a ferocious pace, retail in the mid — six figures at New York's Gagosian Gallery and London's Victoria Miro; one of her rare early paintings sold at auction in November 2008 for $ 5.79 million, a record at the time for a living woman artist.

AUCTION An untitled 1989 work by Martin Puryear, composed of red cedar and pine, sells at Christie's New York on May 13 for more than $ 1.8 million (including fees), more than twice the estimate and a record for the artist.

One such example is Kerry James Marshall, whose Plunge captivated the imagination of so many collectors and set a world auction record for the artist.»

His mixed - media collage of the same name, Mithra (2008), which sold at Sotheby's in 2013 for $ 2,629,000 (more than four times its low estimate of $ 600,000), holds the artist's record at auction.»

With an estimate of $ 16 - 20 million, the painting is positioned to realize a new world auction record for the artist.

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.

At a Christie's New York auction in 2015, Hofmann's Auxerre (1960), inspired by the expansive stained glass windows of the Cathédrale Saint Etienne in France, achieved a world auction record for the artist at $ 6,325,000.

If you looked online 10 years ago for auction records for African American artists you'd be lucky to find a name outside of Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Henry Ossawa Tanner and of the ones you would find the prices were very low.

# 2.7 m Record price for Andreas Gursky's photo A photograph of the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky created in 1999 has sold at auction for a record $ 4.3 million at Christie's NewRecord price for Andreas Gursky's photo A photograph of the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky created in 1999 has sold at auction for a record $ 4.3 million at Christie's Newrecord $ 4.3 million at Christie's New York.

Presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the exhibition coincides with a number of other notable moments for Taylor, including his work gracing the March cover of Art in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this month.

A 1963 sculpture by Mark di Suvero sold for $ 1.25 million, exceeding the contemporary artist's auction record of $ 968,000, at Richard Gray Gallery.

This includes totals from the Swann sale of the collection of writer Maya Angelou, which set a new auction records for artist Faith Ringgold with the sale of her work Maya's Quilt of Life for $ 461,000, which came close to doubling its pre-sale estimate, and John Biggers» Kumasi Market, which fetched $ 389,000.

An enormous Gerhard Richter painting of Milan's Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square) that was commissioned to cheer up the offices of the electronics conglomerate Siemens sold for $ 37m (# 24m) on Tuesday, setting a new auction record for a living artist.

The sale established eight new world auction records for a diverse range of artists, including Lucian Freud, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Hoffman, Robert Ryman, Sturtevant, and Giovanni Anselmo, among others.

Perhaps Hammons did go with the buck: In 2013, a record price of $ 8 million for his work, the highest for any living black artist, was set at Phillips New York when he consigned an untitled basketball backboard chandelier to the auction house directly.

Sourced directly from Marina Picasso, the artist's granddaughter, it topped the sale with a price of # 10.4 million, an auction record for a Picasso work on paper.

Described as «a punch to the solar plexus» by Conor Jordan, Christie's Deputy Chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art, the work realised a world auction record for the artist when it sold for $ 70,062,500 at Christie's in New York in November 2017.

The success of this strategy is evidenced by the auction records regularly achieved for such artists as Martin Wong, Boaz Vaadia and Will Fowler, among many others.

Leonie was closely involved with the sale of Jeff Koons» Tulips in November 2012 that set the world record price at auction of $ 33.6 million for the artist.

Playing a pivotal role in the groundbreaking November 2012 Post-War and Contemporary auction, Loic oversaw the sale of Jean - Michel Basquiat's Untitled, which brought in record price of $ 26.4 million for the artist.

She later transitioned into a strategic role in where she worked on the auction house's Evening Sales of Contemporary Art, which included record - breaking prices for works by artists such as Clyfford Still and Gerhard Richter.

He has twice achieved the record for any photographic work of art at auction, both times by Andreas Gursky and twice achieved the record for any living artist at auction with Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons.

In 2007, a painting of Doig's, entitled White Canoe, sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist.

But in 2007, when his 1991 White Canoe, a nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

In addition to Monet and Matisse, artist world auction records were set for Diego Rivera (The Rivals, $ 9,762,500, which also established a record for a work of Latin American Art), Eugène Delacroix, Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot, Armand Seguin, Giorgio Morandi, Odilon Redon, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Sheeler, Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Fairfield Porter, Stefan Hirsch, Morris Cole Graves, Elizabeth Strong - Cuevas and Saliba Douaihy.

She also was instrumental to the success of the June 2013 auction ($ 19,600,000), with a global record for an artwork by the artist Kazuo Shiraga, Chiretsusei Katsusemba ($ 1,650,000).

Her structure Untitled (from the Point as a Set series), is one of the finest examples of works from her Point as a Set series to come to auction, as well as Sonia Gechtoff's (1926 - 2018) Untitled (# 4), Untitled (# 3), Untitled (# 5), 1960, which realized $ 15,000, a new world auction record for the artist.»

This enthusiasm was quickly followed by Jonas Wood's Untitled (MV Landscape)(2008), which established a record - breaking figure of # 542,500 / $ 839,248 / $ 735,630, setting a new artist's record for a work at auction, and by Adrian Ghenie's Pie Fight Interior (2012), which sold for # 446,500 / $ 690,736 / $ 605,454.

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.

At auction for the first time in 100 years, Golden Hours, 1864, by Frederic, Lord Leighton, a pivotal masterpiece of British Aestheticism, achieved a new world auction record for the artist, selling for # 3,274,500 / $ 4,384,556 / $ 3,945,773.

Loic Gouzer, International Specialist declared: With a total of $ 134million and 16 world auction records set for major artists such as Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Peter Doig, On Kawara, Glen Ligon, Adam McEwen, Richard Prince and Thomas Schutte, and, the If I live I see you Tuesday auction convened works by emerging and established artists who largely exceeded all pre-sale estimates.

In 2012, Jeff Koons hit the headlines with the sale of his sculpture Tulips, which set a world auction record for the artist at that time.

Eleven years later, the first of Eric Clapton's Richters to come to auction achieved a world - record price for the artist when it realised # 21.3 million.

The fourth record of the night went when Lot 9, Jean Dubuffet's Deux Arabes gesticulant (Two gesticulating Arabs) of 1948, sold for # 1,109,000 / $ 1,355,198, a new auction high for a work on paper by the artist.

The market for Arte Povera has grown steadily since 2003, although a breakthrough moment came in February 2014 with Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision, an auction at Christie's in London of the biggest collection of Arte Povera works ever brought to market which saw fifteen artist records set in a single night.