Sentences with phrase «auction week»

Nearly $ 700 million worth of postwar and contemporary art may change hands at evening auctions this week.

There was plenty to see and think about this past auction week.

But when Maezawa chose the same auction week in May 2016 to spend hefty sums on a number of other top lots as well — $ 13.9 million on a Christopher Wool, $ 9.7 million on Richard Prince's Runaway Nurse, $ 6.9 million on Jeff Koons's Lobster — he worked the elder collector class into a frenzy.

An original illustration of Tintin by Herge for the 1936 book «The Blue Lotus» sold at auction this week for $ 1.2 million.

Yet three major contemporary art auctions this week brought a total of 229 million pounds, or about $ 280 million — a sharp increase over the # 152.2 million raised by equivalent events in February 2016.

Additionally, it felt just the tiniest decibel quieter, with many international collectors and advisors choosing not to come at all, given the new staggered schedule art schedule which pushed back its generally historic May auctions a week later than usual, to accommodate for the opening of the Venice Biennale.

Spring Contemporary Art Auction week brings a decent selection of noteworthy lots and a large number of auction guarantees, which are expanding across auction categories and are now being secured for works at day sales as well.

The Rubells began collecting in the 1960s, as the story, now famous, goes, on a budget of $ 25 per week — «25 percent of our income,» Ms. Rubell said during a recent trip to Manhattan for contemporary auction week.

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In fact, the U.S. Treasury is issuing more than $ 250 billion in Treasury securities during auctions this week alone, and the three and six month Treasury bill auctions will be the largest on record.

Saville is still a feminist: for the next couple of days you can see a work by her at the Gagosian Gallery in King's Cross, alongside pieces by a wide range of artists that go on sale in a charity auction this week on behalf of Women for Women International; she also co-organised the event.

Doubling down on Wednesday night, Phillips and Christie's went back to back on a marathon pair of auctions, Phillips with its 20th Century Sale and Christie's with its Impressionist and Modern sale, that pushed the fall auction week to near completion with surprisingly potent results, including a new auction record for both Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky.

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• A 1640 book of psalms — one of only 11 known copies of the first book ever published in English in what would become the United States — sold at auction this week for a whopping $ 14.16 million dollars, the most ever paid for a book.

BNZ senior economist Doug Steel said a genuine increase in demand for protein, particularly from China, was also fuelling the price bonanza, which saw the average price on Fonterra's GlobalDairy Trade auction this week surge 14.2 per cent on the last auction.

Scottsdale Auction Week, as it has come to be known, marks the unofficial opening of the annual auction season.

During our fabled Auction Week here in Phoenix, our friends at Allison Partners and Toyota invited working media out to a special evening program to demonstrate their Toyota Safety Sense (TSS) systems.

This comes on the heels of Arizona auction week, where record - breaking sales take place yearly.

I just put together that Mark is the author of some awesome sounding books currently up on the Con - or - Bust auction this week.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction at Sotheby's London will be the most important auction this week, as 59 lots are estimated at $ 225,683,212 — $ 322,451,861, or $ 4,65 million per lot.

Whereas Christie's has several very good works in different styles by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in its Post-War auction this week (see The City Review article on the Post-War evening auction May 16, 2001 at Christie's), this auction offers yet another dimension to his oeuvre with Lot 32, «Drei Kerzen,» a 49 1/4 - by - 59 1/2 - inch oil on canvas that was executed in 1982.

While browsing Christie's online print auction this week, we paused to Google image search a Frank Stella print.

He leaves on March 15, having stayed on for the Duchess of Devonshire auction this week, which was a predictable roof - raiser with # 1.8 m sold, well over expectations.

Auction week heralded the usual suspects: Richter, Hirst, Warhol, Fontanna, Boetti, Klein, Murillo, Twombly, Baselitz, Dubuffet, Basquaiat.

It was a full auction week in New York with day and evening contemporary sales at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips.

Indeed their three evening auctions this week set a new milestone in the avalanche of money pouring into the art market, eclipsing the previous record by a wide margin.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby «Bush Babies» gifted to the Studio Museum to raise money for their new building (designed by David Adjaye) in Harlem at a Sothebys benefit auction this week alongside other gallery artists Isaac Julien Chris Ofili Wangechi Mutu and Stan Douglas.

Works auctioned this week ran the gamut of contemporary styles, from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein of pop art fame to Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline of the abstract expressionists to other experimentalists such as Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and Robert Rauschenberg.

+ The Impressionist and modern works at Sotheby's second round of Taubman auctions this week brought in impressive sales after a disappointing first night.

Nearby hotels such as Claridge's and the Connaught accommodate art buyers during auction weeks.

• Finally, a one - of - a-kind first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, annotated by author J.K. Rowling, fetched $ 227,421 in a charity auction this week.

In a fall auction week that saw eight - figure records for the likes of Frank Stella («Delaware Crossing,» 1961 at Sotheby's for $ 12 million), Cy Twombly («Untitled,» 1968 at Sotheby's for $ 70.53 million), and Roy Lichtenstein («Nurse,» 1964 at Christie's for $ 95.4 million), Gilliam's achievement barely registers.

The first auction to open the New York auctions week this May was Christie's — Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 15th.

New York City is preparing to enter the frenzied art selling state of its May auctions week and, as usual, nothing short of record - breaking, earth - shattering bids will satisfy the hungry...

Spring Contemporary Art Auction week brings a decent selection of noteworthy lots and a large...

Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the doc.ument leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as «childish superst!tions».

A parade of town cars delivered the guests, which included Agnes Gund, Jose Mugrabi, Jeffrey Deitch, Linda Evangelista and Leelee Sobieski to the idyllic country setting, offering a respite from Randall's Island and the ensuing contemporary auction week.

Along with another investor, Liss - Riordan outbid Tobins and other interested parties to take control of the Cambridge restaurant at an auction this week.

It's hardly pocket change, but this Fiat Abarth 850 «TC Tribute» is one of the neatest cars up for auction this week — and it's not too expensive to enjoy either on - road or off it.

The price that dealers agree to pay for vehicles being auctioned this week will be the first indication.

The $ 109 billion in debt will be auctioned this week.

Sotheby's capped its auction week yesterday with a respectable contemporary day sale that brought in $ 98 million.

A portrait of a Nigerian man with tribal markings by Ludwig Jindra, whose work was auctioned this week — he was a photographer tasked by the Czech government in the 1930s with an ethnographic study of the world.

Despite concerns about a surfeit of Richters up for auction this week — no fewer than 18 — two 1980s abstracts by the artist, each with a low estimate of $ 20 million, were the star lots of the Ames collection.

The November 2017 auction week in New York was one to remember, and it seems that we can use only three words to describe it in a nutshell: Leonardo's Salvator Mundi.

As it happened, I slipped in under the wire: The entire prodigious morning - after mess was about to be packed up and shipped off to New York, where it goes on view this month at David Zwirner Gallery right on time for auction week — just as the artist had planned it.