Sentences with phrase «big auction houses»

What impact has the downturn had on the big auction houses?

The high - end items will probably continue to be sold through big auction houses, or via major galleries at the Art Fairs, where Gagosian, or David Zwirner write the rulebook; while the rest of the market could move online (luring the buyers offering purchase without premium, for example), but never entirely.

In our prediction of trends for the art market in 2017, we wrote that the focus of big auction houses and art dealers will be shifted to younger and older age groups of artists.

When actor Ben Stiller approached David Zwirner to help him raise money for Haiti through a charity auction, the art dealer proposed an evening sale at one of the big auction houses.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The big auction houses capped the fall art season with $ 1.1 billion in sales in New York two weeks ago, but collectors must still have a few blank walls left.

With this exhibition, the curators suggest a narrative that serves as an alternative to the one told by the big auction houses, major art fairs and biennials, and mega-galleries.

People talk about auctions because the big auction houses are in N.Y., and auctions have increasingly become central to art.

It is always best to buy reproductions as even the big auction houses have, in the past, sold illegally acquired pieces.

While you initially apply online, Borro employs experts formerly with big auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's who appraise and collect items offline.

Pitted against big auction house events this art week, the director of the Armory Show discusses how his fair is staying ahead of the competition.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, based in Chicago, is one of the biggest auction houses in the U.S. Founded in 1982, it has offices in five cities and represents everything from fine jewelry and timepieces to manuscripts, dolls and toys, fashion and what they're best known for — fine art.

Discreet transactions are a significant growth area for Sotheby's and Christie's International, the world's two biggest auction houses.

Not exact matches

It was from the head of a New York auction house, saying she had a curious item: a big bronze bull with a goddess attached.

Gooding & Company announced two of its big guns: a 1955 Gullwing coupe and a 1957 Roadster, both of which will be sold at the auction house's Pebble Beach sale August 18 and 19.

The evening is not a standout in terms of sell - through rate or big - money buys, but for a first event put on by a fledgling auction house, it's a success.

With weeklong sales totaling over $ 116 million, including automobilia and charity lots (over $ 106 million without), January in Scottsdale means big revenue for perhaps the best - known automotive auction brand in the U.S. Indeed, while other auction houses live - stream their sales locally on their websites, Barrett - Jackson has a full coverage package with Discovery television (a partner of Automobile's parent company).

Auction house Artcurial's upcoming Retromobile 2016 sale is a veritable treasure - trove of blue - chip European metal, and includes the potential sale of a particularly rare 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport Scaglietti (335 S), and is expected to charge through big - league bids up to a final sale estimate of around $ 35 million.

I've been losing some auctions for books I'd like to publish to bigger advance offers from Random House, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and others.

Henry is the auctioneer at a big art auction house, and the...

At Skinner's auction house in Boston, Colleene Fesko knew she'd scratched the surface of something big when she found herself returning phone calls to answering machines that say «Meow, and thanks for calling.»

The auction is the big money maker for The Cat House and we really need your donations.

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With previously obscure artists like Ashley Longshore and Donald Robertson rocketing to fame, and sales, because of Instagram, Vogue outlines how big - time art dealers and auction houses are using Instagram to sell art.

By focusing on the small and mid-size media outlets, you can bring lots of attention to your art without competing against the big galleries and auction houses that are sucking up all of the oxygen in the big media companies.

In 2016, over $ 45 billion of art was sold worldwide, and just $ 25 billion of that was the big galleries and auction houses.

May 12 - 16, 2014 Contemporary Auctions Feature Black Artists New York This week, major auction houses Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips are holding their big spring contemporary sales.

SECOND - BIGGEST WASTE OF MONEY AFTER THE LEONARDO AUCTION «Hansel and Gretel,» one of the year's more expensive works of installation art, involving the latest in high - tech surveillance technology reiterated as fun - house spectacle.

Not a happy hotshot in a suit, serving as crystal meth to big - game - buying megacollectors and auction houses.

Berlin - based German multi-media artist Christian Jankowski on why he's elevating art from China's biggest copy village to the auction house at Grisebach.

Cooper's classic New York dealer approach, one that places the artist first, began to seem almost quaint as art became a commodity and auction houses, business - savvy artists and aggressive big - box gallerists began to rule the scene.

Together with Amy Cappellazzo, he co-led the post-war and contemporary department and was responsible for many of the auction house's biggest hauls — among them, the 2004 sale of Pablo Picasso's Garçon à la pipe (1905) that first broke the $ 100 - million mark and the $ 179 - million Picasso, Les Femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)(1955), that currently holds the record for most expensive artwork sold at auction.

Between May 8 and 12, 2016, as many as nine auction sales took place at three of the biggest houses selling Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary artworks today and, to say the very least, it was an exciting time.

During their stroll, Chanos expressed his view that the auction houses are under pressure from the big global galleries like White Cube:

In addition, the captial is home to the big three auction houses, which can make or break a living artists» careers with the thwack of an auctioneer's gavel.

«Basel is our biggest weapon, if we want to go mano a mano with the auction houses.»

That's been the trajectory for a long time, but it has been accelerated by some big sales at some auction houses like Christie's, and also by some institutional interest.

The sales that began last week at auction houses in New York, with more than $ 2.1 billion of art on offer, are the biggest test of the trade since stocks tumbled in August and September, unnerving investors.

Reselling pricier, better - known pieces by the likes of Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol yields bigger dollar returns, sometimes in the tens of millions, as auction houses break records at postwar and contemporary sales.

At the auction house's last big contemporary art sale in October, work by German artists accounted for more than 43 % — nearly # 21m — of the sale total.

As the biggest week - long concentration of art events in Europe ended yesterday, dealers at Frieze Art Fair individually reported brisk sales and the tallies at the auction houses almost doubled from last year's October sales.

We got our lovely pale pink house at auction - it is bigger than a cottage but I still want to call it a «cottage».