Sentences with phrase «broke auction records»

The sale of 82 artworks broke auction records for the works of 16 artists and nearly doubled the highest total for such a sale of postwar art.

Three years ago, Wynn purchased a Francis Bacon triptych of paintings depicting Lucian Freud that broke auction records at $ 142.4 million.

Tiny, fragile, and immensely valuable: the Meiyintang «Chicken Cup» broke auction records at Sotheby's yesterday

Famous for creating outsized fabricated objects, Koons broke auction records last year when his whimsical reflective - surface «Balloon Dog (Orange)» sold for more than $ 58 million.

His Walking Man 1 sculpture broke auction records when it sold at Sotheby's London for # 65m and his works wowed visitors to an acclaimed exhibition of his portraits at the National Portrait Gallery last year.

The less fortunate school friend, never went to college in the end but not due to lack of means but rather due to early retirement as his inherited dilapidated family building broke auction records as Mouille Point collected it's residential property title of the Golden Mile during the property boom.

In 2013, Zeng's painting The Last Supper broke the auction record for the most expensive work by an Asian contemporary artist when it sold for $ 23.3 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

Pablo Picasso's painting Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie - Thérèse Walter), 1937, broke an auction record when it sold at Sotheby's in London on February 28, 2018 for # 49.8 or around $ 69.4 million with fees, reported Sotheby's.

But in more recent works Gursky descends from high abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted with rubbish from passing cars.

In November 2015, it broke the auction record for a sculpture by a woman artist (almost tripling her own previous record) when it sold for more than $ 28m.

One had to feel a little sorry for him in the reckoning: One of his paintings, through no doings of his own, breaks auction records for a work by a living European artist, and he gets pitted against no less a luminary than Giovanni Battista Tiepolo as quintessential of what art historian James Meyer called the market's «overestimation of the contemporary.»

Moreover, two of the most critically recognized black female artists in the United States were born in Africa and are breaking auction records.

The Nigerian - born, California - based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby broke her auction record twice last year — it now stands at $ 1.1 million for Drown (2012), a work on paper, up from $ 93,750 two months earlier.

YBAs Jenny Saville, Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers and Chris Ofili all raised the bar, with some breaking auction records for their works.

Not exact matches

The auction house broke a world record this spring with the sale of an 18 - karat gold, diamond - encrusted Himalaya Birkin for nearly $ 380,000.

This spring the auction house broke the world record for the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction with the $ 71.2 million sale of the «Pink Star» diamond.

Cramer also called attention to the Leonardo da Vinci painting that sold for over $ 450 million, breaking all - time art auction records.

And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.

The sale broke the previous record price for a work of art at auction, Picasso's 1905» Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice).»

Kosta Browne Winery is crowned wine auction king for the second year in a row (at the same time celebrating 20 years in the wine making business), Silver Oak's Cabernet Sauvignon gives Pinot Noir a run for the money, as the Sonoma County Barrel Auction breaks all records on auction king for the second year in a row (at the same time celebrating 20 years in the wine making business), Silver Oak's Cabernet Sauvignon gives Pinot Noir a run for the money, as the Sonoma County Barrel Auction breaks all records on Auction breaks all records on Friday.

The Premier League have announced record breaking TV rights with Sky and BT winning an auction to land the contract which allows them to televise the most exciting league in the world.

Football clubs all around the country are playing their part in the auctions, with The Royal British Legion hoping to break their previous fundraising Poppy Appeal record with a target of # 47 million this year for all their fundraising activities.

Einstein letter sells for record price Artist Lucian Freud wasn't the only one to break his own auction record this week.

The bracelet broke records in 2010 as he most expensive bracelet to have ever sold at Sotheby's auction house selling for a sweet # 4.5 million.

Check out the Rolex Reference 6062 «Bao Dai» that just sold for $ 5,060,427, breaking the record for most expensive Rolex ever sold at auction.

In addition to breaking sales records, the car was also the top seller for the entire week's worth of Monterey auctions and fell in line with RM Sotheby's pre-sale estimate of «in excess of $ 20,000,000.»

February 2018 could be a date etched into the automotive auction annals when a Ferrari 275 Prototype crosses the auction block with record - breaking potential.

This was a record - breaking price at auction for a Countach.

The iconic blue and yellow Subaru Impreza with chassis number 001 driven by the legendary Colin McRae breaks world record selling for # 230,000 at auction.

It is no surprise that this combination of premier items and user - friendly technology helped the auction raise over $ 20,000; another record - breaking number for the Brunch for the Animals!

The 2017 Fur Ball Auction & Dinner was a record - breaking event, raising more than $ 450,000 to benefit the cats and dogs of Homeward Pet.

Sotheby's had a record - breaking sale of modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam on March 8, when it auctioned off the BAT (British American Tobacco) ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, one of Europe's most highly regarded corporate art collections.

But with its record - breaking auction price of just under $ 120 million at Sotheby's last Wednesday, Edvard Munch's masterpiece has become a sign of the times for the fine art world as well.

Using last year's world record breaking $ 450,000,000 sale of Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi at Christie's, Smith builds upon this as the catalyst to explore the world of high - end art auction results and the wider topic of the commercial value of art.

An excerpt of the document reads: «Behind the ostensible façade of Jeff Koons's art world triumphs and record - breaking auction prices, lurks a well - oiled machine, more specifically an established, archaic System as old as the hills applied to the art world to exploit art collectors» desire to own Jeff Koons sculptures.

As Christie's aims for another record - breaking season, the auction house announced today that a rare Francis Bacon triptych painting of his friend and colleague Lucian Freud will be offered for sale in New York during its November 12th Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.

While the Warhols, both new to auction, failed to set artist records — these are images, after all, in multiple editions — the sale did break 14.

The sale represents a huge success for the auction house considering that during the record - breaking evening 94 % of all lots offered were sold earning 98 % sold by value.

Willem de Kooning's abstract painting Untitled XXV, 1977, broke a world record at auction when the painting sold for $ 66.3 million at Christie's evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on November 15, 2016 in New York.

Christie's auction house, which last year sold the most expensive painting ever, has once again broken a record this April, although perhaps for slightly more modest price tags.

Willem de Kooning's abstract painting Untitled XXV, 1977, broke a world record at auction when the painting sold for $ 66.3 million...

The Sèvres porcelain «Marly Rouge» service commissioned by Napoleon I broke the world auction record for 19th - century porcelain, selling for $ 1,812,500 in English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations Part I.

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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.

Several long - standing auction records were broken for important works, including the complete BAM Photography Portfolio I, 2000, with photographs by Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and others, which sold for $ 26,250 to a collector.

This enthusiasm was quickly followed by Jonas Wood's Untitled (MV Landscape)(2008), which established a record - breaking figure of # 542,500 / $ 839,248 / $ 735,630, setting a new artist's record for a work at auction, and by Adrian Ghenie's Pie Fight Interior (2012), which sold for # 446,500 / $ 690,736 / $ 605,454.

Armand Boua (lot 98, Ivory Coast), his auction record has now been broken five times since October 2016.

London — On October 16, Christie's London evening auctions of Post-War & Contemporary Art and The Italian Sale realised a record - breaking combined total of # 78,729,000 / $ 121,793,764 / $ 106,756,524.

Prior to joining Heritage, she held positions with two major New York auction houses as a Specialist in American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, and headed twice - yearly, record - breaking sales in the category.

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...