On Sunday, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) set two new world
auction records for artists Mary Corse and June Harwood; additional auction records were set for works by Ed Ruscha and De Wain Valentine.
Not exact matches
In addition, a
Mary Corse painting from 2000 realized $ 81,250, setting a world
auction record for the
artist.
LAMA additionally set world
auction records for artists and designers
Mary Corse, Fred Eversley, John Lautner, James Gill, and Joe Brainard.
A
Mary Corse prismatic painting realized $ 87,500, setting a new
auction record for the
artist, breaking the previous world
auction record also set by LAMA.
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.
Chris Ofili's painting of a black Virgin
Mary decorated with elephant dung that caught the ire of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sold
for 2.9 million pounds at Christie's, an
auction record for the British
artist.
The new acquisitions include «Holy Virgin
Mary» (1996) by Chris Ofili, a gift from billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen that set an
artist record at
auction for the British
artist, and «Sweet Thang (Lynn Jenkins)» (1970) by Barkley L. Hendricks, a gift from Marie - Josee and Henry Kravis in honor of Jerry Speyer.