Sentences with phrase «auction record when»

Those figures were boosted by two purchases by Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau, who set an auction record when he paid 48.6 million Swiss francs ($ 47 million) for a blue diamond in Geneva at Sotheby's on Nov. 11, a day after paying 28.7 million Swiss francs for a pink diamond at Christie's.

Kline, too, set a short - lived auction record when «Shenandoah,» painted in 1956, went for $ 9.32 million.

Part of a series of works commissioned by the band Blur for their Think Tank album, this spraypaint on steel work broke Banksy's previous auction record when it sold for # 288,000 at Bonhams last year.

The sale eclipsed the previous world auction record when The Frent Collection debuted at Heritage in October 2017, generating $ 911,538.

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.

Baldessari set a personal auction record when his acrylic - on - canvas piece Quality Material (1966 — 1968) was sold for $ 4,408,000 at Christie's New York in 2007.

In 2008, Fanzhi set a world auction record when his Mask Series 1996 No. 6 piece was sold at Hong Kong auction for mind - boggling $ 9.6 million.

Pablo Picasso's painting Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie - Thérèse Walter), 1937, broke an auction record when it sold at Sotheby's in London on February 28, 2018 for # 49.8 or around $ 69.4 million with fees, reported Sotheby's.

His Walking Man 1 sculpture broke auction records when it sold at Sotheby's London for # 65m and his works wowed visitors to an acclaimed exhibition of his portraits at the National Portrait Gallery last year.

Not exact matches

November 15, 2013 NEW YORK — Fossils of two dinosaurs found in Montana and locked eternally in a fierce death match could fetch a potential record $ 9 million when they are sold in New York next week, the Bonhams auction house said on Thursday.

This is the second time the Bao Dai 6062 has set records — when it last sold in 2002 for $ 235,000, the Bao Dai set the record for most expensive Rolex sold at auction.

February 2018 could be a date etched into the automotive auction annals when a Ferrari 275 Prototype crosses the auction block with record - breaking potential.

That would certainly be a record for a production example without rally or other history (only the most significant endurance rally examples could trump it), and we'll be keeping an eye on this example when it goes across the auction block in September.

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That handily trouncing its high estimate of $ 7 million and also demolished the previous record for a Rivera at auction, which was set when $ 3.08 million was paid for Baile en Tehuantepec (1928), sold by IBM at Sotheby's in New York in May 1995.

That handily trouncing its high estimate of $ 7 million and also demolished the previous record for a Rivera at auction, which was set when $ 3.08 million was paid for

Sotheby's had a record - breaking sale of modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam on March 8, when it auctioned off the BAT (British American Tobacco) ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, one of Europe's most highly regarded corporate art collections.

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.

Meanwhile, the world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction was set at the same Christie's sale when «Salvator Mundi,» a Leonardo da Vinci painting from 1500 sold for a staggering $ 450.3 million (including fees).

The previous auction record for a painting by Marshall was set in November 2014 when «Vignette» (2003), an acrylic on fiberglass, sold for $ 1,025,000 (including fees), also at Christie's.

AUCTION Glenn Ligon achieves a career record at Sotheby's New York Nov. 11 contemporary art auction when his «Untitled (I Was Somebody),» sells for more than $ 3.9 million, well over twice the esAUCTION Glenn Ligon achieves a career record at Sotheby's New York Nov. 11 contemporary art auction when his «Untitled (I Was Somebody),» sells for more than $ 3.9 million, well over twice the esauction when his «Untitled (I Was Somebody),» sells for more than $ 3.9 million, well over twice the estimate.

SIX BLACK ARTISTS made news recently when their work set sales records at Swann Auction Galleries.

In November last year, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 set the world record for an artwork by a woman when it sold for $ 44.4 million (# 28m) at auction in New York.

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.

Her UK auction record was set in May 2017 at Christie's when The Backyard 2014 sold for # 5,250.

Kitaj's output, of course, never enjoyed anything like the five-fold jump in auction prices that Doig's experienced between June 2006 and February 2007, when his White Canoe fetched a record # 5.7 million.

Famous for creating outsized fabricated objects, Koons broke auction records last year when his whimsical reflective - surface «Balloon Dog (Orange)» sold for more than $ 58 million.

Willem de Kooning's abstract painting Untitled XXV, 1977, broke a world record at auction when the painting sold for $ 66.3 million at Christie's evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on November 15, 2016 in New York.

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.

In the same sale, the world auction record for an archaic bronze was set when the bronze ritual wine vessel, fangzun, from the late Shang dynasty, sold for $ 37,207,500.

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.

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.

Galleries often consign and purchase works at auction directly and on behalf of collectors and benefit when artists in their inventory record strong sales.

Willem de Kooning's abstract painting Untitled XXV, 1977, broke a world record at auction when the painting sold for $ 66.3 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.

Giacometti is best known for his bronze figurative sculptures, which attract some of the highest auction prices in the industry: a Walking Man broke records when it sold for # 65m in 2010.

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.

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.

Just look at his market: at Christie's in November he set a new world record when Red and Pink (1950) sold for $ 4.9 million, and every single artwork of his that went under the hammer in the season's auctions fetched at least twice its estimate.

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.

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.

When the museum sold the work with Christie's in 2015, it established a record price for Ofili's work at auction, selling for nearly # 2.9 m.

In November 2016, the world auction record for a work by Monet was set at Christie's in New York when Meule (1891) sold for $ 81,447,500.

In 2016, Untitled established a world record for Basquiat at auction, when it sold for $ 57,285,000 at Christie's in New York.

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