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.
Now $ 50m is expected (the artist's
auction record stands at $ 56m).
Not exact matches
Several long -
standing auction records were broken for important works, including the complete BAM Photography Portfolio I, 2000, with photographs by Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and others, which sold for $ 26,250 to a collector.
Cecily Brown's monumental The Sick Leaves, an oil on linen in three parts, was the sixth
record to go — the # 1,805,000 / $ 2,205,710 paid for the work passing the previous world
auction record for the artist, which had
stood since May 2007.
The
auction record for Guston, the abstract work To Fellini (1958),
stands at $ 25.9 m. Odessa, offered at Sotheby's London's 5 October Contemporary Art evening sale, is estimated at # 2.5 m — # 3.5 m.
The
auction record now
stands at $ 11.9 m for Untitled (1960) sold at Christie's New York in 2014.»
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.
An untitled set of five inkjet prints by Christopher Wool, 2003, tied the
standing record for the work at
auction, reaching $ 37,500.
The high
auction price brought other Heilmann's onto the market and in 2013 a sale at Sotheby's brought $ 194,500 for a 1976 work in bright primary colors, a
record that still
stands.
The Nigerian - born, California - based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby broke her
auction record twice last year — it now
stands at $ 1.1 million for Drown (2012), a work on paper, up from $ 93,750 two months earlier.
An art advisor and former
auction house expert with apparent knowledge of the transaction suggested the price was «north of $ 10 million» — if accurate, it crushes the
auction record for the artist, which
stands at $ 2.7 million.
Twenty - four hours after Adam Lindemann sold a Jean - Michel Basquiat at Christie's for $ 57.3 million — an
auction record for the artist — he found himself in the role of bidder as selling began for a 1942 Calder
standing mobile at Sotheby's last Wednesday night.