Sentences with phrase «collections sold at auction»

At a total of around 2,000 objects (of which only 150 to 200 have so far been located), Budge's was one of the largest private collections sold at auction during the Third Reich.

Picasso's bolshy flower girl is just one of the masterpieces on show in London before this 1,600 - strong collection sells at auction

Not exact matches

Auctioneer Chris Aubrey discusses a collection of autographs of 46 British prime ministers, from 1721 to the present day which sold at an auction in South Cerney, Gloucestershire for # 1,700.

Another work of art from the collection a Massachusetts museum that came under intense criticism for deciding to sell multiple works in an effort to stay open has sold at auction.

In the face of mounting budget deficits, the James Prendergast Library in Jamestown is planning to sell 19th - and 20th - century paintings and tapestries valued at as much as $ 1 million from its art collection through two New York City auction houses.

Last November, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / Flower No. 1 became the most expensive work by a female artist ever sold at auction, fetching $ 44.4 million (see Wall Flowers — women in historical art collections).

The same collection of drugs is depicted in Hirst's «Fact» painting «HIV AIDS, Drug Combination» (2006), which was also sold at the (RED) auction and which was exhibited together with «Where There's a Will, There's a Way» as part of «Requiem», the major 2009 exhibition of Hirst's work at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev.

His involvement as a collector is well known, but few people are really aware of what his collection comprises — apart from the Richard Prince painting Surfing Nurse, which made newspaper headlines in 2008 when it was sold at auction, generating a spectacular profit.

Marking its first time at auction, Femme accroupie (Jacqueline) comes from a private collection, and is estimated to sell for $ 20 - 30 million.

The Essl Collection, which has been seeking a bailout to keep the German DIY entrepreneur's 7,000 work collection intact, has decided to sell 44 works through Christie's in a pre-Frieze auction that estimates the value of the works at # 60m.

Howard Hodgkin's Bloomsbury home, containing items from the artist's personal collection to be sold at auction by Sotheby's.

«This was an historic event in the auction world, with three major records set in the space of a few short hours: a record for any Post-War and Contemporary art sale at $ 388.5 million, a record for any private collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art at $ 174.9 million for the Pincus Collection, and a new record for the most expensive work of the period, with Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow sold for $ 86.9 million,» said Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art.

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).

Charles Saatchi has chosen a new online - only auctioneer to sell works from his collection of Middle Eastern contemporary art this month, rather than a more familiar live auction at Sotheby's, Christie's or Phillips.

Works from the collection of Alex and Elisabeth Lewyt sell for $ 88.6 m at a New York auction, while a painting from Madonna's collection fetches $ 7.2 m with proceeds going to her Ray of Light Foundation

This Henry Moore sculpture «Standing Man and Woman,» was part of film star Lauren Bacall's art collection and sold for $ 56,250 at her estate auction earlier this year.

Proof of his growing appeal was demonstrated in the impressive sale of two untitled oil on canvases that attained results well above their auction estimates, each selling for upwards of $ 100,000 at our December 9th Capital Collections Estate sale.

Auction houses played an increasingly important role as sellers of contemporary art after 1973, when the auction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull — some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid — garnered more than $ 2.2 mAuction houses played an increasingly important role as sellers of contemporary art after 1973, when the auction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull — some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid — garnered more than $ 2.2 mauction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull — some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid — garnered more than $ 2.2 million.

[14] Auctioned from the collection of Gerhard and Anna Lenz at Sotheby's London in 2010, it sold for # 1.11 million.

* The previous world auction record was held by «Anonymous (Ming Dynasty) COLLECTION OF BUDDHIST SUTRAS», which was sold for HK$ 14,026,000 at Sotheby's New York's Fine Classical Chinese Patingins & Calligraphy Sale on 19 Mach 2015.

In September, the New York Times spoke to Stern in her Upper West Side apartment about the art collection she assembled with her husband over the past 60 years, and her decision to sell a significant number of works at auction.

Last sold at auction in 1973 at Sotheby's in London, Femme assise has remained in a private collection for over forty years, during which time it has featured in some of the most important international exhibitions of Picasso's work, including key exhibitions on Cubism: Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1989; Picasso: Sculptor / Painter at Tate Gallery, London, in 1994; and Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington in 2003 - 04.

The Rockefeller collection will be the largest collection to ever appear at auction, as well as the most valuable collection to be sold for philanthropic causes.

He was instrumental in the selection of Christie's to sell the Bloch - Bauer collection, both privately and at auction, in 2006.

This black chalk drawing for the Italian renaissance artist's painting of the «Transfiguration» was sold from the Duke of Devonshire's collection at Sotheby's Old Master Paintings and Drawings auction in London on Dec. 5, 2012

o Untitled (RIOT), an early seminal masterwork by Christopher Wool that had been in the same collection since 1991, sold for $ 29,930,000, establishing a new record for the artist at auction (est. $ 12/8 million).

The Linda Pace Foundation sold a painting from its collection by German abstract painter Gerhard Richter for $ XX at a Christie's auction in New York Nov. 12.

«At Christie's Martin Puryear's 1989 untitled red cedar and pine sculpture from the collection of Frances R. Dittmer sold for $ 1,805,000, more than twice the high estimate and an auction record for Puryear.»

The Dia Art Foundation is expecting an infusion of about $ 20 million when it sells off all of the Cy Twomblys in its collection, plus a few John Chamberlains, and its only Barnett Newman, at Sotheby's postwar and contemporary art auctions next week.

Remaining is the one Christie's will auction May 11, and one sold at Sotheby's last year, and another, which was described by Sotheby's last year as part of a private collection.

The previous holder of that title was German artist Gerhard Richter, whose 1994 «Abstract Painting,» from the collection of musician Eric Clapton, was also featured in the auction, fetching almost $ 20.9 m. On Wednesday night at Sotheby's, Andy Warhol's arresting 1963 painting, «Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster),» is expected to sell for as much as $ 80m.

In line with its experience of the Irish art market, the Solomon Gallery provides free advice on how to start or expand a private or corporate art collection, including guidance on how to buy and sell paintings and sculpture at auction.

[133] In July 2008, his 11 - foot (3.3 meter) Balloon Flower (Magenta)(1995 — 2000) from the collection of Howard and Cindy Rachofsky also sold at Christie's London for an auction record of US$ 25.7 million.

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