Sentences with phrase «auction records came»

Both of his previous auction records came from paintings in this series as well.

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«It's been a long - time coming,» Virgilio Garza, Christie's head of Latin American Art, said of the new high mark, and now Frida and Diego are finally neck - in - neck with their auction records.»

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.

ONLY THREE WORKS by Njideka Akunyili Crosby have come to auction and they have all been record breakers.

Very few works of this size have come up at auction and this work should achieve a world record for a monochrome joke.

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.

Only two works from this series have come to auction in the last 20 years and each time they established a new record for the artist and a new benchmark for European art.

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.

Every month or so, as the pandering museum shows and art fairs and summer group shows and art writer resignations and auction records had me losing hope, one of these came along.

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.

One of 29 recorded paintings of London that Derain painted across 1906 and 1907, it comes to auction alongside the exhibition «Impressionists and London» currently on view at London's Tate Britain.

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.»

ABMB comes on the heels of blockbuster auctions in New York last month, led by Christie's $ 853 - million contemporary art sale, which set a record for the largest auction ever.

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 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.

Another young painter to have made a mark at auction, Lucien Smith likewise seemed to come out of nowhere to end the year with new record at Philips's Under the Influence sale in New York, where Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree (2011) fetched $ 389,000.

That figure doesn't come near Christie's record - toppling $ 692 million total the previous night, but it does establish a record as the highest - grossing sale ever at the auction house.

In 2002, just after one of his works achieved a record price of $ 666k that would only be surpassed once half - a-dozen years later, one exceptionally powerful auction house specialist in Contemporary art predicted that his market would take off in the coming years.

As previously reported here, only three works by Akunyili Crosby have come to auction and they have all been record breakers, each exponentially surpassing the price reached by the previous lot.

Powered by an art market that seems to have achieved nuclear fission — with Christie's record half - billion - dollar auction fresh in memory — and coming on the heels of the Venice Biennale's stellar opening, the fair gathered a city's worth of megacollectors (the Broads, the Horts, the Brants, the Rubells), celebrities (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kanye West, Cate Blanchett), and curators (the New Museum's Massimiliano Gioni, L.A. MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch, the Whitney's Scott Rothkopf).

The next record came seconds later when Baselitz's colorful, semi-abstract painting of four figures from 1981 sold for $ 7.4 million, breaking his 2011 auction record of $ 5.2 million at Sotheby's in London.

The fair comes on the heels of a record - setting season in New York, where auction houses sold $ 2.2 billion of modern, Impressionist, postwar and contemporary art last month.

Although Georgia O'Keeffe broke the record for a price at auction by a woman artist, she still does not come close to the latest record - setting work by a male artist.

If the house expected the Warhol to smash his previous auction record of $ 71.7 million, the Cy Twombly record price of $ 21.7 million for Poems to the Sea (1959), an abstract, 24 - part multimedium work on paper, came as a bit more of a surprise.

Two of the great surprises of the day came in the form of Edward Ruscha's bold Golden Words, 1985, which realized $ 334,600 against a $ 70,000 + pre-auction estimate — one of the highest recent prices paid for a work on paper by the artist — while the bidding on Jack Goldstein's acrylic on canvas Untitled, 1983 exploded much the same as the subject matter of the painting itself, finishing at almost seven times the pre-auction estimate of $ 30,000 + to realize $ 203,150, and establishing a new world record at auction for the painter.

His Henry Moore Bound to Fail set an auction record for postwar art when the hammer came down at Christie's in 2001 as bidding reached $ 9.9 million.