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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.

Maurizio Cattelan's, Him, set a world auction record for the artist when it sold for $ 17,189,000 after over five minutes of bidding.

Not exact matches

In 2013, Zeng's painting The Last Supper broke the auction record for the most expensive work by an Asian contemporary artist when it sold for $ 23.3 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

The previous record for a painting by the artist at auction was $ 40.9 million, which was set in 2009 at Christie's in Paris when a 1911 painting by the French master was offered with a similar impressive provenance, coming from the collection Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.

Originally owned by Carla Panicali for over thirty years, the work set the world auction record for the artist's tagli when it sold to the present owner in 1998.

A boost for women artists came in the same room a week later, however, at the auction house's contemporary evening sale, when Jenny Saville's Shift (1996 — 97) soared over a # 1.5 — 2 million estimate to sell at # 6.8 million — a record for any British female artist at auction.

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.

In 2012, Diebenkorn's Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1971 became the most expensive picture by the artist ever auctioned when it went for $ 13.25 million at Christie's New York, dwarfing the previous record set at Christie's when an Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1980 made $ 7.69 million.

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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.

At Bonhams» Impressionist & Modern Art Auction in New York on May 12, Seated Old Man set a record for a work on paper by the artist when it sold for $ 425,000, over four times its high estimate.

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.

In November 2015, it broke the auction record for a sculpture by a woman artist (almost tripling her own previous record) when it sold for more than $ 28m.

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.

He rose to international star status when one of his paintings broke the international auction record for a living artist.

The artist's previous auction record was set on July 1, 2014, when «Afrosheen,» a barbershop painting executed in 2009, sold at Christie's London for # 1,314,500 including fees (approximately $ 2.2 million).

Jeff Koons made himself a household name with his gargantuan steel sculpture series Balloon Dog, which broke records in 2013 when one of his five supersized hounds became the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction, going for a staggering $ 58.4 m.

Lot 38, «Achrome,» by Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963), sold for $ 1,015,500, breaking the artist's previous auction record when the same monochrome work of kaolin on burlap was sold for $ 914,442 at Sotheby's London Dec. 9, 1998.

Jasper Johns, arguably the most important living Post War and Contemporary Artist, established an Auction record November 2014, when the Artist's Flag, fetched $ 36 million at Sotheby's, establishing an all time Auction world record for the Artist.

The artist record for newly minted auction favorite Njideka Akunyili Crosby is more than $ 3 million, achieved last month when «The Beautyful Ones,» her standing portrait of a lone female figure sold at Christie's London.

As a dedicated champion of California artists, LAMA is especially proud to have established new world auction records for Southern California modernists: Mary Corse's Copper - Four Crosses (1979) realized $ 100,000, a John Lautner floor lamp (1939) brought $ 43,750 (Lot 96), and a James Gill painting from 1968, when the artist worked in Los Angeles, achieved $ 22,500.

Meanwhile, the artist's auction record was broken twice last year: first when Sotheby's London sold ris, messagère des dieux (1890 - 91) for # 11.6 m (est. # 6m - # 8m) in February, and then again in May, when L'éternel printemps (1901 - 03) sold for $ 20.4 m (est. $ 8m - $ 12m) at Sotheby's New York.

The Matisse realised $ 80,750,000, a new world auction record for the French master; bidders competed for almost 14 minutes before the stunning Monet, which hung in the stairwell of one of the Rockefellers» homes, sold for $ 84,687,500 — also a new world auction record for the artist; and the Picasso — one of the first paintings by the artist acquired by Leo and Gertrude Stein — became the most expensive Rose Period work at auction when it was bought for $ 115,000,000.

The artist made headlines in February 2013 when his painting «The Architect's Home in the Ravine» sold for $ 12,000,000 at a London auction, breaking his previous record.

A rare masterpiece by the German painter Georg Baselitz (estimated # 6.5m - 8.5 m) is set to break the record for the artist at auction when offered at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London on 8 Marcauction when offered at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London on 8 MarcAuction in London on 8 March 2017.

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.

John Singer Sargent's celebrated painting entitled Group with Parasols (A Siesta) set a new record for the artist at auction when it sold for $ 23.528.000 at Sotheby's in December 2005.

And German artist Gerhard Richter, who set an auction record for a living artist earlier this month when an abstract painting fetched $ 34.2 million at Sotheby's, rose to sixth from 11th.

The group was led by Rockwell's singular masterpiece Saying Grace, which set a new auction record for an American Painting ** and nearly tripled the previous auction record for the artist *** when it achieved $ 46,085,000 — soaring past its $ 20 million high estimate.

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.

Basquait is the lone African American artist whose works have garnered eight figures at auction and last week he joined the $ 100 million club when an untitled 1982 skull painting sold at Sotheby's for $ 110.5 million, nearly twice his previous record.

Lowry's status as one of the major British artists of the 20th Century was reinforced when the painting Going To The Match was sold at Auction for a record # 1.9 million to the Manchester - based Professional Footballers Association.