Sentences with phrase «by a living artist sold»

In 2007, one sold at Sotheby's for $ 23m, then the most expensive piece of art created by a living artist sold at auction.

Of the top 50 contemporary auction lots by living artists sold at Christie's and Sotheby's in China, New York and London in 2015, only four were by women — a mere 8 %.

Jeff Koons made himself a household name with his gargantuan steel sculpture series Balloon Dog, which broke records in 2013 when one of his five supersized hounds became the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction, going for a staggering $ 58.4 m.

Not exact matches

Both artists living a spectacular modernist house, itself built by an artist, we join them at the critical moment of their decision to sell the place.

Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableArtist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableArtist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableartist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

Kyd also created the faded Americana acoustic score for Undead Labs» STATE OF DECAY, the fastest selling original game on Xbox Live Arcade, and the surreal fantasy score for the action - adventure DARKSIDERS II, created by comic book writer / artist Joe Madureira, which garnered numerous critic accolades including Entertainment Weekly's «Most Played Best Songs of 2012,» Machinima's «Top 5 Songs of 2012,» «Best Video Game Score of 2012» and «Top 10 Best Video Game Scores Ever» from Minnesota Public Radio.

Grammy Award - Winning DJ and platinum selling artist Paul Oakenfold is telling the «not quite true» story of his life as one of the progenitors of electronic music and one the greatest DJ's of all time with his first ever book, a graphic novel which features an original soundtrack by Oakenfold.

We will be showcasing several show - exclusive vinyl variants including an extremely limited «Black Pumpkin» vinyl variant for the The Addams Family «Original Music from the Addams Family» 50th Anniversary Edition LP, a «Brains & Guts» vinyl variant for the best - selling The Walking Dead «Original Soundtrack Vol.1» LP, a «Highland Mists» vinyl variant for the Outlander «Original Television Soundtrack Vol.1» Double LP, three colored vinyl variants for the Book of Life «Original Motion Picture Soundtrack» based on key characters from the hit animated film, as well as a very limited set of five 18» x 24» hand - screened art prints by artist Andrew Barr, inspired by everyone's favorite breakfast cereal characters and entitled «Cereal Chillers».

This supports for me what I have always thought in my 50 years as an artist that it is hard to make money as an artist, and that many artists earn a living by having another job or profession besides art making and selling.

how to make a living from your talent as an artist by selling your art directly to collectors, whether that is selling original work, prints, commissions, or licensed products

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When Pace sold the work to the Whitney Museum in 1980 for $ 1 million, the painting set a record for the priciest artwork ever sold by a living artist.

It seems strange that in a time of such wealth in the world, only a handful of the millions of artists in the world are known by people outside the artworld and only a handful are able to make a living from only creating and selling their art.

In 1989, her work Oozewald was sold for $ 6.6 million, making it the highest priced artwork ever sold by a living female artist.

(Think works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as Jasper Johns's «Three Flags,» which the Pace sold to the Whitney Museum in 1980 for $ 1 million — the most a painting by a living artist had ever been sold for at the time.)

Last evening's Sotheby's sale of Contemporary Art in Europe was led by Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild which established a new record for the artist, selling for # 30.4 million / $ 46.3 million / $ 41 million (with an estimate of # 14 to 20 million), a new benchmark for any European living artist.

The artist moved to Mexico in the late 1980s and has lived in Europe since 1994, skirting these legal and cultural quagmires by scrubbing his work of Native American subject matter and selling internationally.

The most valuable two works in the sale were by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, whose tapestry of shimmering bottlecaps, Earth Developing More Roots from 2011, sold for # 728,750 ($ 941,691), and the South African artist Irma Stern, whose still life of Sunflowers from 1942 made # 416,750 ($ 538,524).

It is the current world record for a single artwork by a living artist ever sold at an auction ($ 58.4 million).

The following painting in the series, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, was sold by Christie's in 2008 for $ 33.6 million, making it — at the time — the most expensive painting by a living artist ever to be sold at auction.

Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living artist — Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 - 2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $ 58.4 million at Christie's.

Included in the sale are tiny jewel - like still lifes by masters like Balthasar van der Ast and Adriaen Coorte; landscapes by Aelbert Cuyp and Jacob van Ruisdael; and three paintings by van Dyck that include a portrait of the artist Martin Ryckaert estimated to sell for $ 700,000 to $ 900,000.

Two have already been sold by Clapton — in 2012, 809 - 4 changed hands for # 21.3 m, setting a new auction record for the artist and for any work by a living artist at auction.

Bonhams expert Giles Peppiatt said works by Africa's best - known living artists typically sell for less than $ 150,000, or the ballpark asking price at auction for works by much younger, less time - tested artists like New York art star Dan Colen.

An eight - panel series of paintings by Cui Ruzhuo sold for HK$ 236 million ($ 30 million) at Poly Auction Hong Kong, setting an auction record for a living Asian artist.

Continuously knocking down records (both his own and those of other people), his Abstraktes Bild was sold for $ 37.1 million in 2013, and Domplatz, Mailand for $ 44.52 million in 2015, each setting a record price for a painting by a living artist.

Mr. Richter holds the auction record for work by a living European artist: In February 2015, one of his enormous abstract oils sold for more than $ 46 million in an auction at Sotheby's London.»

Church eventually sold it for $ 10,000, at that time the highest price ever paid for a work by a living American artist.

A geometric abstraction by Detroit - born Loving who lived and worked in New York, and a colorful abstraction from a series of «poured paintings» by Bowling, a Guyana - born British artist, each sold for $ 161,000 (including fees).

His works quickly began to sell and, liberated by the knowledge that he could make a living as an artist, he never looked back.

Among the works by living artists, Cady Noland's 1989 silhouette - shaped screen print of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, «Bluewald,» sold to a client of Mr. Gorvy for $ 9.8 million, an auction high for the artist.

All sorts of records have been smashed: Mark Rothko's White Center sold for $ 72.8 million, doubling the top price for a postwar work; and the world auction record for a work by a living artist was set by Jeff Koons» Hanging Heart, at $ 23.5 million.

A giant 1994 Abstraktes Bild made headlines when it was sold by Eric Clapton for $ 34 million in 2012, then the highest price for a work by a living artist.

Amid murmurs that the economic crisis was hurting midmarket galleries — an instance of art imitating life, with talk of the 1 percent and a dying middle class — the gallery was doing well, usually finding collectors for two - thirds of the works in each of its exhibitions and selling out the gallery's swan - song presentation of paintings by the Iranian - born artist Marjane Satrapi.

Before moving to Johannesburg in 2002, she lived in New York where she worked for the artist management company Mixed Greens (mixedgreens.com) promoting, curating and selling art by emerging visual artists.

A redesigned, more spacious Frieze found buyers for new works by younger living artists priced in the $ 20,000 to $ 200,000 range, its unique selling point for the past 11 years.

Other works included Julie Mehretu's Rising Down, which sold for $ 3 million, and Icons of the Nile by Chant Avedissian, which set a record for a living Arab artist at $ 1.56 million.

[11] In 1988, Johns» False Start was sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $ 17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for a work by a living artist at auction, and the second highest price paid for an artwork at auction in the U.S. [32] In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago - based hedge fund Citadel LLC) bought False Start (1959) from David Geffen [33] for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.

In 2008 one of her works sold for $ 5.8 m at auction, then the second - highest price for a work by a living female artist.

But the bidding remained tempered throughout the rest of the night, and even saw a few stumbles: a late painting of two faces on a collaged background by Jean - Michel Basquiat, who has been a market sure thing in recent months, failed to sell at its $ 5 million - $ 7 milllion estimate, while Cady Noland — who holds the world auction record for a living woman artist ($ 6.6 million)-- had a section of chain - link fence go unsold at $ 500,000 - $ 700,0000.

That auction also minted Jeff Koons» $ 58.4 million Balloon Dog (Orange)(1994 - 2000) as the most expensive piece by a living artist ever sold at auction.

Six paintings by Gerhard Richter sold last night at auction for a total of almost $ 30 million, confirming his status as the most bankable living artist, dealers said.

The Whitney Museum has a policy not to sell artwork by a living artist in case it would negatively impact the artist's career, but it has a policy in which works can be acquired through exchanges.

Others seek to keep up a program born out of subjective endeavours and shared with a worldwide community: such as LIFE SPORT in Athens, which sells «critical wearables» — the LIFE SPORT joggers — as an attempt to generate alternative arts funding in a time and place where there is none; Opening Times, which is an online - only exhibition platform; Peach, an exhibition space and home in Rotterdam; and I: project space, which fills a gap in the Beijing art scene by presenting video art and supporting artist exchange via residencies.

Sotheby's is hardly testing the water here: Bourgeois holds the record for the most expensive sculpture by a woman to be sold at auction (a within - estimate $ 28.2 million in November 2015 for her nine - foot bronze Spider, 1997) and Kusama once held the auction price record for any living female artist ($ 7.1 million for her painting White No. 28 (1960) in 2014) before being dethroned by Cady Noland.

Note: The most expensive painting by a living artist, is «Domplatz, Mailand» (Cathedral Square, Milan)(1968) by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), which sold at Sotheby's New York for $ 37.1 million.

As Phillips pointed out before the auction, the Scottish - born Doig, whose grand, painterly landscapes are prized by collectors, is one of just five living artists who have sold for more than $ 25 million at auction.

♦ Mitchell - Innes & Nash: Alexander Liberman's target - like «Black and Red Circle» from 1960, a 24 by 30 oil on canvas, sold in the $ 50,000 range; Anthony Caro's glass, bronze, and steel «Display,» from 2011 - 12, went for a bit over $ 100,000; and among the living artists, Virginia Overton's Arte Povera - like «Untitled» wall piece sold for around $ 25,000.

The auction also features works by acclaimed living artists such as Stephen Scott Young, whose Hibiscus Dress (Little Cindy), 2009, realized $ 68,500 and Final Study for Mr. Buck's Funeral, 2010, sold for $ 62,500.

In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long - standing galleries.