In addition to these landmark achievements, Phillips holds
auction records for artists including León Ferrari, Zília Sánchez, Lygia Pape, Amelia Peláez, Doris Salcedo, Olga de Amaral, Os Gêmeos, Jac Leirner, Antonio Dias, Roberto Obregón, Damián Ortega, Tania Bruguera, Tomás Saraceno and Nelson Leirner.
The sale established 6 new world
auction records for artists including Jean - Michel Basquiat, Agnes Martin, Mike Kelley, Richard Prince, Kerry James Marshall and Barry X Ball.
As a highly respected and knowledgeable specialist in this field Philip has contributed to Christie's setting numerous
auction records for artists including Patrick Caulfield; Barbara Hepworth; L.S. Lowry; Paul Nash; Samuel John Peploe; William Scott and Graham Sutherland.
Six of the first 10 works presented during the evening established
auction records for artists including Henry Taylor, Imi Knoebel, Albert Oehlen and Gerald Laing.
Not exact matches
It was a
record for the
artist, according to sales results and
auction records kept by multiple sources
including Blouin Art Sales Index and Iris Index.
The vibrant mixed - media painting sold
for $ 78,000 ($ 97,500
including fees), more than twice the high estimate and, according to Swann
Auction Galleries, a
record for the
artist.
AUCTION An untitled 1989 work by Martin Puryear, composed of red cedar and pine, sells at Christie's New York on May 13
for more than $ 1.8 million (
including fees), more than twice the estimate and a
record for the
artist.
AUCTION On July 1 at Christie's London, «Afrosheen,» a 2009 painting by Hurvin Anderson (above) sells
for more than $ 2.2 million (
including fees), nearly four times the estimate and a
record for the British
artist.
Last September, the museum purchased the quilt from Swann
Auction Galleries
for $ 460,000 (
including fees), an
artist record.
«Plunge» (1992), a large - scale painting by the Chicago
artist sold
for more than $ 2.1 million (
including fees), a new
auction record for the
artist, according to Christie's and Iris Index.
In addition to Marshall,
auction records were established
for five other
artists at Christie's May 10 Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale,
including Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988).
AUCTION Six
artist records emerged at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Oct. 7 in London,
including an
artist record for «Walking with Vito,» a 2008 painting by Los Angeles - based Henry Taylor, which sold
for $ 173,990 (
including fees).
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.
Presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the exhibition coincides with a number of other notable moments
for Taylor,
including his work gracing the March cover of Art in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new
artist record at
auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this month.
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.
The sale established eight new world
auction records for a diverse range of
artists,
including Lucian Freud, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Hoffman, Robert Ryman, Sturtevant, and Giovanni Anselmo, among others.
She later transitioned into a strategic role in where she worked on the
auction house's Evening Sales of Contemporary Art, which
included record - breaking prices
for works by
artists such as Clyfford Still and Gerhard Richter.
On 6 October, the Post-War and Contemporary Evening
Auction saw extraordinary results
for artists including Adrian Ghenie, whose vast, cinematic painting Nickelodeon sold
for a
record - breaking # 7,109,000.
20th Century at Christie's and Defining British Art concluded on 30 June, with the series of ten sales having achieved a total of # 212,545,850 / $ 291,370,503 and establishing new
auction records for 20
artists,
including Bernard Buffet, Lynn Chadwick, Frederic Lord Leighton, Henry Moore, Bridget Riley and Sean Scully.
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).
AUCTION > Kerry James Marshall's 2015 portrait of Harriet Tubman sells
for more $ 5 million (
including fees) at Christie's New York on Nov. 15, setting an
artist record.
AUCTION On Oct. 7, «Untitled (Symbol),» a 2007 painting by Los Angeles
artist Henry Taylor, sells
for more than $ 300,000 (
including fees) at Christie's London, far exceeding the estimate at setting a new
artist record.
Sales results show Swann
Auction Galleries
recorded $ 2.36 million in total sales (
including fees), four lots sold
for more than six figures and, most notably, seven
artists achieved
record prices.
The sale broke several
auction records,
including that of Jean Genet Masturbating in Metteray Prison, a 1984 screenprint by David Wojnarowicz, which reached $ 10,000, a
record for any print by the
artist.
Christie's sold a
record $ 852.9 million of postwar and contemporary art in a New York
auction that set 11 all - time - high prices
for artists including Georg Baselitz, Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha and Cindy Sherman.
Christie's
recorded the highest
auction tally in history the night before with $ 495 million and set 12
artist records,
including milestones
for Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean - Michel Basquiat.
We were also very pleased with the number of
auction records that were set
for artists who are less frequently seen on the
auction market,
including Rebecca Horn, Paola Pivi, Neil Jenney, Olivier Mosset, Daniel Buren and John Armleder.
In the recent
record breaking fall
auctions, new
records were set
for many individual
artists including pieces by Fernando Botero (Colombia) and Remedios Varo (Spain / Mexico) while Christie's saw paintings by Botero and Wilfredo Lam go to private Russian Collections.
It shattered expectations, selling
for an astronomic $ 110.5 million (
including fees), an
artist record and a groundbreaking
auction moment.
The two - hour
auction also saw Jeff Koons become the world's most expensive
artist with the sale of Balloon Dog (Orange)(1994 — 2000)
for $ 58.4 million, the second - most - expensive lot of the evening, which
included eight other
artist records,
for Wade Guyton, Christopher Wool, Vija Celmins, Lucio Fontana, Ad Reinhardt, Donald Judd, Willem de Kooning and Wayne Thiebaud.
Executed at the height of the
artist's career, Untitled (1982) established a new world
auction record of $ 57,285,000
for Jean - Michel Basquiat (all prices
include buyer's premium).
Records for 10
artists were established,
including for Newman and Alexander Calder, and a Joan Mitchell painting set a
record for female
artists at
auction.
High points
included bidding
for Mark Bradford's 2013 painting «Biting the Book» that sold
for 2.5 million pounds, surpassing its high estimate of 1.5 million pounds and setting an
auction record for the American
artist.
Along the way,
auction records were set
for seven
artists,
including Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Brice Marden, Mark Bradford and the Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Other top prices
included $ 11,284,628 ($ 8.8 m to $ 12.1 m)
for Gitane by the Dutch Fauvist portrait painter Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968); and $ 10,216,148 (estimate: $ 6.4 m — $ 9.6 m)
for Espagnole by the Russian modernist Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)- a
record auction price
for a painting by a female
artist.
Other highlights
included Lynette Yiadom Boakye's The Hours Behind You, 2011, which set a new
record for the
artist after it sold
for $ 1.58 million, nearly four times its high estimate; Roy Lichtenstein's Female Head, 1977, which netted $ 24.5 million; and a Laura Owens work, which shattered her previous
auction record of $ 336,500, securing $ 1.75 million.
The last two years marked
record - high prices at
auction for artists including Joan Mitchell, Tamara de Lempicka, Louise Bourgeois, Irma Stern, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Helen Frankenthaler, Rosemarie Trockel and Louise Lawler.
Other contemporary highlights
for sale next month, aside from Basquiat's Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face),
include a painting by Georg Baselitz expected to set an
auction record for the
artist.
AUCTION May 12: At Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction, «Smear,» a new painting by Mark Bradford, sells for $ 4,394,000 (including fees), a record at the time for the Los Angeles - based
AUCTION May 12: At Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening
Auction, «Smear,» a new painting by Mark Bradford, sells for $ 4,394,000 (including fees), a record at the time for the Los Angeles - based
Auction, «Smear,» a new painting by Mark Bradford, sells
for $ 4,394,000 (
including fees), a
record at the time
for the Los Angeles - based
artist.
Norman Lewis
Record: Two years ago, a circa 1957, untitled oil on canvas painting by Lewis sold at Swann for $ 581,000 (including fees) on Oct. 3, 2013, setting an auction record for the a
Record: Two years ago, a circa 1957, untitled oil on canvas painting by Lewis sold at Swann
for $ 581,000 (
including fees) on Oct. 3, 2013, setting an
auction record for the a
record for the
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.
In the past decade, Swann
Auction Galleries in New York, which sold $ 5.3 million of African - American art in 2017, launched hundreds of black artists at auction and established records for major figures, including Abstract Expressionist painter Norman
Auction Galleries in New York, which sold $ 5.3 million of African - American art in 2017, launched hundreds of black
artists at
auction and established records for major figures, including Abstract Expressionist painter Norman
auction and established
records for major figures,
including Abstract Expressionist painter Norman Lewis.
Sotheby's contemporary sales set
auction records for six
artists,
including $ 5.6 million
for a Cy Twombly untitled and $ 3 million
for Wayne Thiebaud's «Freeways.»
That
included an unnamed collector who at the event's live
auction bid $ 2.5 million over the telephone
for a painting called «Untitled Pink» by Los Angeles
artist Mark Bradford, a museum
record.
Auction records were also set
for a number of other
artists,
including Joseph Cornell ($ 4.8 million), Hans Hofmann ($ 4.8 million), Piero Manzoni ($ 14.1 million), Philip Guston ($ 25.8 million), Richard Serra ($ 4.2 million), Luc Tuymans ($ 2.7 million) and Julie Mehretu, whose $ 4.6 million sale of Retopistics indicates her entry into the small circle high - selling female
artists, and bodes well
for her current shows at both White Cube in London and Marian Goodman in New York.
Christie's contemporary evening sale made history last night in grand style, storming through its 72 lots to realize a world
record $ 495 Million sales total that
included new
auction records for Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean - Michel Basquiat, and 13 other
artists, aided
auction house's impressively assembled catalog.
His works sold
for substantial sums of money,
including at least one world
record auction price
for a work by a living
artist.
World
auction records were also reached
for several
artists at Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary Asian Art sale,
including Wang Huaiqing's «Feet 2» which fetched $ 7 million and was the top lot of that evening sale.