Six of the first 10 works presented during the evening
established auction records for artists including Henry Taylor, Imi Knoebel, Albert Oehlen and Gerald Laing.
Not exact matches
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).
Only two works from this series have come to
auction in the last 20 years and each time they
established a new
record for the
artist and a new benchmark
for European art.
The sale
established eight new world
auction records for a diverse range of
artists, including Lucian Freud, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Hoffman, Robert Ryman, Sturtevant, and Giovanni Anselmo, among others.
Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on Wednesday, November 15, 2016
established four new world
auction records for artists Willem de Kooning, Jonathan Horowitz, John Currin and Giuseppe Gallo, according to Christie's.
[31] At a Sotheby's
auction in London in 2011, Polke's City Painting II (1968) sold
for $ 7.4 million, and his Jungle (1967)
established a new
record for the
artist at $ 9.2 million.
In addition to Monet and Matisse,
artist world
auction records were set
for Diego Rivera (The Rivals, $ 9,762,500, which also
established a
record for a work of Latin American Art), Eugène Delacroix, Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot, Armand Seguin, Giorgio Morandi, Odilon Redon, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Sheeler, Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Fairfield Porter, Stefan Hirsch, Morris Cole Graves, Elizabeth Strong - Cuevas and Saliba Douaihy.
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.
Two lots later, a new world
auction record was
established for the hot young Nigeria - born, California - based
artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby as The Beautyful Ones (2012) sold
for # 2,517,000 / $ 3,075,774.
Loic Gouzer, International Specialist declared: With a total of $ 134million and 16 world
auction records set
for major
artists such as Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Peter Doig, On Kawara, Glen Ligon, Adam McEwen, Richard Prince and Thomas Schutte, and, the If I live I see you Tuesday
auction convened works by emerging and
established artists who largely exceeded all pre-sale estimates.
20th Century at Christie's and Defining British Art concluded on 30 June, with the series of ten sales having achieved a total of # 212,545,850 / $ 291,370,503 and
establishing new
auction records for 20
artists, including Bernard Buffet, Lynn Chadwick, Frederic Lord Leighton, Henry Moore, Bridget Riley and Sean Scully.
Record prices at
auction were
established for 5
artists (such Joe Bradley, Rachel Whiteread, Toby Ziegler and Louis Eisner).
It sold
for $ 567,500
establishing a new
auction record for the
artist.
Jasper Johns, arguably the most important living Post War and Contemporary
Artist,
established an
Auction record November 2014, when the
Artist's Flag, fetched $ 36 million at Sotheby's,
establishing an all time
Auction world
record for the
Artist.
As a dedicated champion of California
artists, LAMA
established three new world
auction records for Southern California modernists: June Harwood's Untitled (from the Sliver Series)(1964)(Lot 200, est. $ 5,000 — 7,000), realized $ 33,750, exceeding the previous world
auction record, also set by LAMA in February 2014; Oskar Fischinger's Space Abstraction (1966)(Lot 139, est. $ 4,000 — 6,000) brought $ 17,500, exceeding the previous world
auction record also set by LAMA in October 2012; and Vasa's Group of four towers (1976)(Lot 63, est. $ 8,000 — 10,000), reached $ 37,500, nearly doubling the previous world
auction record for the
artist set by LAMA in March 2011.
As a dedicated champion of California
artists, LAMA
established three new world
auction records for Southern California modernists:
As a dedicated champion of California
artists, LAMA is especially proud to have
established new world
auction records for Southern California modernists: Mary Corse's Copper - Four Crosses (1979) realized $ 100,000, a John Lautner floor lamp (1939) brought $ 43,750 (Lot 96), and a James Gill painting from 1968, when the
artist worked in Los Angeles, achieved $ 22,500.
The sale
established 6 new world
auction records for artists including Jean - Michel Basquiat, Agnes Martin, Mike Kelley, Richard Prince, Kerry James Marshall and Barry X Ball.
In total, 23
artist records were
established representing 46 % of the
auction, and the top 3 prices were paid
for works by female
artists (Tracey Emin, Rebecca Warren and Berlinde de Bruyckere).
Executed at the height of the
artist's career, Untitled (1982)
established a new world
auction record of $ 57,285,000
for Jean - Michel Basquiat (all prices include buyer's premium).
Records for 10
artists were
established, including
for Newman and Alexander Calder, and a Joan Mitchell painting set a
record for female
artists at
auction.
The result also
established a new
record for an artwork by any female
artist at
auction, formerly held by Berthe Morisot 1881 «Apres le dejeuner.»
The
auctions this week have been characterized by
establishing records and good sales
for middle - market
artists rather.
Two of the great surprises of the day came in the form of Edward Ruscha's bold Golden Words, 1985, which realized $ 334,600 against a $ 70,000 + pre-
auction estimate — one of the highest recent prices paid
for a work on paper by the
artist — while the bidding on Jack Goldstein's acrylic on canvas Untitled, 1983 exploded much the same as the subject matter of the painting itself, finishing at almost seven times the pre-
auction estimate of $ 30,000 + to realize $ 203,150, and
establishing a new world
record at
auction for the painter.
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).
In the past decade, Swann
Auction Galleries in New York, which sold $ 5.3 million of African - American art in 2017, launched hundreds of black artists at auction and established records for major figures, including Abstract Expressionist painter Norman
Auction Galleries in New York, which sold $ 5.3 million of African - American art in 2017, launched hundreds of black
artists at
auction and established records for major figures, including Abstract Expressionist painter Norman
auction and
established records for major figures, including Abstract Expressionist painter Norman Lewis.
Having known and admired Jasper Johns» final encaustic Flag
for decades, we were thrilled to see it
establish a new
record for the
artist at
auction.»
A key work in the collection, Mahmoud Said's The Whirling Dervishes sold
for $ 2,546,500, far exceeding its high estimate of $ 400,000 — and
establishing a new world
auction record for the
artist.
appearance at
auction of a «Fold» painting by Tauba Auerbach also
establishing a
record price
for the
artist at
auction
Diego Rivera's The Rivals also
established a new world
auction record for the
artist, and in the process became the highest priced Latin American artwork in
auction history.
Espagnole, circa 1916, by Natalia Goncharova realized # 6,425,250 at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Evening Art Evening Sale in London,
establishing a
record price
for a painting by a female
artist sold at
auction.