Sentences with phrase «contemporary evening sales»

- While the art market may be smaller — Art Basel Miami Beach has about 800 galleries participating, a 20 % drop from recent years Sales figures are increasing in size — Sotheby's and Christie's New York Contemporary evening sales last week fetched $ 423.9 million, a 40 % increase from May 2009.

Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips brought in a combined # 345 million with fees across their Post-War and Contemporary evening sales in London.

Also, beware the new meme — quoted here — from Art Tactic that uses selling prices in relation to estimates as a measure of the art market's health: «more than half of the lots sold in the contemporary evening sales sold below the average estimate.»

Phillips normally holds its auction after Sotheby's and Christie's contemporary evening sales, but changed its date in hopes of attracting buyers «before they have spent their money,» notes Vogel.

The art - market elite that attends the ticketed contemporary evening sales had been waiting, worrying, and imagining the worst.

Phillip's top selling lot in yesterday's contemporary evening sale, was guaranteed.

Sighs of relief at Christie's Postwar & Contemporary sale Following the mixed results of this week's first clutch of New York auctions, Christie's Postwar & Contemporary evening sale last night produced a consistently «strong» result, reports The Art Newspaper.

It's up at the Christie's postwar and contemporary evening sale next month in London, and it's estimated to sell for $ 2.3 million.

A boost for women artists came in the same room a week later, however, at the auction house's contemporary evening sale, when Jenny Saville's Shift (1996 — 97) soared over a # 1.5 — 2 million estimate to sell at # 6.8 million — a record for any British female artist at auction.

In November 2013, the Post-War and Contemporary evening sale at Christie's totaled $ 691.6 million, setting a new record for the most expensive work by a living artist — $ 58.4 million for Jeff Koons's sculpture Balloon Dog.

It was the best result for a Sotheby's contemporary evening sale since 2008.

The London sales continued with a strong # 39.6 million ($ 52.8 million) total at the Christie's postwar and contemporary evening sale, projecting more confidence following Tuesday's successful contemporary sale at Sotheby's — all despite the economic uncertainty caused by England's vote last week to exit the... Read More

The London sales continued with a strong # 39.6 million ($ 52.8 million) total at the Christie's postwar and contemporary evening sale, projecting more confidence following Tuesday's successful contemporary sale at Sotheby's — all despite the economic uncertainty caused by England's vote last week to exit the European Union.

The New York sales continue Tuesday with the postwar and contemporary evening sale at Christie's.

History was made at Christie's postwar and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday night, when Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500), believed to be the last painting by Leonardo da Vinci in private hands, sold for $ 450.3 million, making it the most expensive art market transaction of all time.

Though Christie's elected not to publicly list the estimated sale price for Louise Bourgeois's Spider (1997), which will be auctioned as lot 10 in the house's postwar and contemporary evening sale on November 10 in New York, it is high enough to... Read More

Most of the works will be sold at Phillips's contemporary evening sale in New York on May 14, but some items will be available at a photography auction on April 1 and 2 in New York.

The average price of a work sold at a contemporary evening sale in 2006 was $ 1,582,298, and last year's average was just shy of that figure at $ 1,541,533.

In last June's contemporary evening sale, women accounted for 21 percent of the overall value.

On the heels of that opening, a work by Owens, who was born in 1970, came to auction at Sotheby's postwar and contemporary evening sale with a high estimate of $ 300,000 and was bought for nearly twice that amount, selling, with a premium, for $ 1.755 million.

MUCH fanfare greeted the $ 388m made by Christie's post-war and contemporary evening sale in New York earlier this month — its highest total ever.

Nineteen of the best works are to be sold at the house's contemporary evening sale in London on Oct. 14, including a Damien Hirst spot painting.

Here's a roundup of coverage from last night's contemporary evening sale at Sotheby's.

PHILLIPS On May 15 at Phillips contemporary evening sale, Bradford's «Bet You Better Not Get Old» garnered $ 1,205,000.

While collectors of Asian contemporary art are still not ready to «drop USD20 million» on a piece, and even USD5 million is a push, what was undoubtedly evident in the Asian Modern and Contemporary evening sale was overwhelming confidence by Asian buyers in the higher - end modern and contemporary Asian art market.

Christie's contemporary evening sale made history last night in grand style, storming through its 72 lots to realize a world record $ 495 Million sales total that included new auction records for Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean - Michel Basquiat, and 13 other artists, aided auction house's impressively assembled catalog.

Not exact matches

Loic Gouzer, deputy chairman of post-war and contemporary art with Christie's who created the theme - oriented auction evenings, called this particular sale «difficult.»

he sixth lot in the house's evening sale of contemporary art on May 18 is a 2013 painting by Avery Singer, an artist who turned 30 last year.

Cappellazzo, and the art advisory she founded a few years ago, is now at Sotheby's, where the sixth lot in the house's evening sale of contemporary art on May 18 is a 2013 painting by Avery Singer, an artist who turned 30 last year.

The top lot of the evening was a work that would typically be reserved for a sale of postwar and contemporary art — a late Willem de Kooning, Untitled XIX (1982), with ethereal waves of blue and red over white.

The top lot of the evening was a work that would typically be reserved for a sale of postwar and contemporary art — a late Willem de Kooning,

Cappellazzo's alma mater also has a surprise first - timer at an evening sale among the first few lots: the first lot in Christie's contemporary sale on May 17 in Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan is not a closely watched young talent, but instead the highly political New York artist David Wojnarowicz, who passed away in 1992, at 37.

«It was a good evening,» remarked one man to another as the crowd filtered out of Sotheby's New York saleroom following its $ 134.4 million evening sale of Postwar and contemporary art on Nov. 11.

An enormous round of applause rang out in the Sotheby's salesroom following its contemporary art evening sale tonight in New York, as the auction house wrapped perhaps the first solidly positive sale of the past week, totaling $ 294.9 million, over a low... Read More

On May 12th and 13th, Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sales achieved a combined total of $ 879,574,000 (# 518,948,660 / $ 642,089,020) with a strong sell - through rate of 98 % by value and 95 % by lot.

Following a few days pause for collectors to recover from the busy rush of Armory Week in New York, Christie's has kicked off another week of major sales in London this evening, concluding its Post-War and Contemporary Evening offering with an unexpectedly energetic outing.

In addition to Marshall, auction records were established for five other artists at Christie's May 10 Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale, including Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988).

Appropriately enough, the 30 June evening sale — like the accompanying loan show (17 June — 15 July)-- spans the centuries, from a refined portrait by James Christie's contemporary Joshua Reynolds to Lucian Freud's intimate Ib and her Husband, and beyond.

Six out of 64 lots in February's Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale at Christie's were by women.

The work sold for $ 7,669,000 at Christie's post-war and contemporary art evening sale on 10 November.

NEW YORK — Tomorrow evening, Phillips de Pury will auction 37 lots in its Contemporary sale, beginning with the Maybach luxury car

The Chelsea - based auctioneer of contemporary art and design offered 22 lots from Minor's collection during its evening sale, of which 19 sold.

Christie's is presenting the complete Homage to Chillida exhibition curated by Kosme de Barañano and held at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2006 for sale in the Christie's London evening and day auctions of Post-War & Contemporary Art on 25 and 26 June 2013.

At Christie's 6 October evening sale of post-war and contemporary art, which totalled just shy of # 34.3 million, the vast, brooding Nickelodeon (2008) made an artist record at # 7.11 million, four times the # 1.5 million estimate.

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.

«The success of this work is a benchmark for the current marketplace, which is exceeding receptive to works of the highest quality across a range of prices,» stated Sara Friedlander, SVP, Head of Department, Post-War & Contemporary Art New York, in a wrap up announcement for the evening sale.

Last evening's Post War sale at Sotheby's carried a strong and confident energy straight from the start as the Principal Auctioneer and the Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art of Sotheby's, Tobias Meyer held fantastic pace, pausing just enough to draw out another bid with his signature «I have five million — say five million - five»!

Brett Gorvy, International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, commented on the sale: «The response that we saw to the sale this evening proves the sophistication, knowledge and competitive urge of many of our top buyers.

through the sale of Constant Dullaart's encrypted treasure map and Aranda / Lasch's Treasure Chest this evening, during Phillips» Contemporary Evening Sale for Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition: the latest art and conservation project conceived by TBA21 - ACADEMY, the arts foundation chaired by philanthropist Francesca von Habsbsale of Constant Dullaart's encrypted treasure map and Aranda / Lasch's Treasure Chest this evening, during Phillips» Contemporary Evening Sale for Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition: the latest art and conservation project conceived by TBA21 - ACADEMY, the arts foundation chaired by philanthropist Francesca von HabsbSale for Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition: the latest art and conservation project conceived by TBA21 - ACADEMY, the arts foundation chaired by philanthropist Francesca von Habsburg.

Another artist record at Christie's evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art was Jean Dubuffet's Les Grandes Artères.