Sentences with phrase «by famous artists selling»

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In «I'm Not Hamlet,» a mystery woman asks Hideo to sell an unlisted painting by a famous artist.

ROLE MODEL: Robert & Ethel Scull, Charles Saatchi, Stefan Simchowitz, Adam Sender MO: Buy deep and extensive holdings of work by choice artists before they're famous, ideally making them famous in the process through energetic word - of - mouth marketing efforts, creating a sense of inevitably of the artist's impending stardom; then, when the moment arrives, sell their work off at auction, or privately, at a gigantic markup over the purchase price.

Georgia O'Keeffe's famous painting Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 made headlines in November when it fetched $ 44.4 million at auction, making it the most expensive work of art by a woman artist ever sold (see Wall Flowers — women in historical art collections).

The most famous work in the auction was «Out of Sight, Out of Mind,» a 1991 work by Damien Hirst of two cow heads in formaldehyde, each in their own glass vitrine, which sold for $ 552,500, an auction record for the artist.

Vik Muniz's Raft of Medusa (from Pictures of Chocolate), 1999, a diptych by the Brazilian artist inspired by Théodore Géricault's famous painting, sold for $ 66,750 ($ 85,900) against an estimate of $ 60,000 / 80,000.

According to a federal complaint filed last week in New York, Spoutz, 32 — also known as Chad Smith, John Goodman and James Sinclair — sold dozens of works of art that he falsely claimed were by famous artists like Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Joan Mitchell, using forged documents to convince buyers of their authenticity.