Sentences with phrase «even an auction house»

Meanwhile, the display of her cutaways of battleships, mansions, and even an auction house with their stylized, weirdly good - humored depravity confirmed to this now hardened fan (note the skepticism in the earlier reviews reposted below) her unexpected capacity to build distinct mood within each work despite the seeming ubiquity of her aesthetic and moral world view.»

Not exact matches

There's even more content on its way to Forza 7 in the form of competitive Leagues, Forzathon community events, and the player - run Auction House.

The evening is not a standout in terms of sell - through rate or big - money buys, but for a first event put on by a fledgling auction house, it's a success.

The Jake livery was even duplicated in Forza Motorsport 2 using the over complicated customization paint shop and made its debut in the in - game auction house on the eve of its Laguna Seca race debut.

It is always best to buy reproductions as even the big auction houses have, in the past, sold illegally acquired pieces.

These restrictions can come in the form of access to guild bank, auction houses and even mail.

There's even more content on its way to Forza 7 in the form of competitive Leagues, Forzathon community events, and the player - run Auction House.

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

Even Brett Gorvy, who just left Christie's after 23 years to join forces with the dealer Dominique Lévy — this year Ms. Levy took on the painter Pat Steir, 74, and the Korean sculptor Lee Seung - taek, 84 — said that what galleries do for artists can not be replicated by an auction house.

Considering the past several outings for the auction houses in London and New York, where only a handful of buyers were reportedly keeping the market afloat, this week's sales hit a different note entirely, with ample phone bids that saw one major auction record fall with Constantin Brancusi's La Muse Endormie demolishing expectations at over $ 57 million, and marquee lots performing quite well over the course of the evening.

The silent auction will culminate at a celebratory evening at Banqueting House in Whitehall on the evening of 28 June 2018, when a number of lots will also be auctioned live by Alex Branczik of Sotheby's.

Berlin - born British artist Frank Auerbach has long been undervalued in the eyes of auction houses even as they've struggled to generate the same kind of heat that has surrounded Francis Bacon.

In an interesting post-auction wrap up Kelly Crow of the Wall Street Journal reported that even though most of the media melted over the Bacon sale, the tallied sales numbers from both auction houses show a much more balanced picture with Christie's slightly edging over their competitors and selling $ 1,076,080,500 worth of art versus Sotheby's $ 1,021,465,430.

One could even argue that the Whitney is not endorsing Sotheby's, that the auction house might as well do some good on the side while starving its staff, that museums can hardly compete with the 2012 New York art fairs for crass commercialism, and that gallery workers hardly make out any better than the auction staff.

The sale represents a huge success for the auction house considering that during the record - breaking evening 94 % of all lots offered were sold earning 98 % sold by value.

Between private dealing, curating and starting the international private sales department at Christie's, her résumé reads like the engineering manual for a creature specifically designed for today's art market, where the lines between dealers, auction houses, collectors, advisers and even free - agent - type artists are blurrier than ever.

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.

New York's three main art auction houses — Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips — this month sold a staggering $ 2.2 billion in art, from Impressionist to contemporary, over 11 day and evening sales.

The silent auction will culminate with Sotheby's Alex Branczik conducting a live auction of some works at Banqueting House in Whitehall on 28 June during a celebratory evening.

Likewise, «institutional critique» has come to be identified almost exclusively with those artists who specifically take up the systems, protocols, hierarchies, and roles of the constellation of institutions that constitute the art world: museums of every ilk, galleries, auction houses, artists» studios, the art market, art criticism, and even art pedagogy.

You can even scout out paintings from the»50s and»60s in the five figures at galleries and auction houses.»

Three auction houses will offer 11 Hirst lots during November postwar and contemporary sales in New York, yet only one work will be included in an evening sale: a 2007 dot painting with a $ 400,000 - to - $ 600,000 estimate range at Christie's.

Sotheby's Nabs Early Pollock for May Sale — The auction house will be offering an early Jackson Pollock from 1946, the abstract Blue Unconscious, with an estimate of $ 20 million to $ 30 million as part of its May 14 contemporary art evening sale.

@artfcity @felixsalmon I think he means the auction houses put a lot of money into the evening sales and they aren't necessarily profitable

The auction house just announced that Alberto Giacometti's iconic Chariot and Amedeo Modigliani's Tête will lead the November 4 evening sale, alongside works by Hans Arp, Marino Marini, Joan Miró, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

On May 14, in its important evening sale of contemporary art, Alex Rotter, co-head of Sotheby's contemporary art department worldwide, said his auction house would offer works that «give everyone an idea of what the collection is.»

If your pockets are deep, or even if your pockets have holes in, an auction house is an interesting place to visit in the run - up to a sale, when works go on show for a few days before they change hands.

The auction house's post-war and contemporary art evening sale realised $ 852.9 million, the largest total in auction history.

Christopher Burge, Christie's auctioneer, described the sale afterwards as «really extraordinary» and «a triumphant vindication» of the auction house's decision to offer works by younger artists many of which are not even a decade old.

Jeff Koons» Popeye the star lot for the Contemporary Art evening sale at Sotheby's is guaranteed by the auction house itself according to a circle symbol in the catalogue.

Just one day after Christie's raised $ 705.9 million from its experimental auction of cherry - picked 20th - century masterworks, Sotheby's responded with a mainstream evening sale on Tuesday that aimed to remind the art world that there is more than one auction house in New York.

Imagine you work for the postwar / contemporary department at one of the world's top three auction houses — Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips — and your major annual November New York evening sale happens to fall on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day.

Earlier this evening, Sotheby's sold an untitled Jean - Michel Basquiat painting from 1982 for $ 110.5 million, inclusive of auction house fees.

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

In a quarterly earnings call this morning, Sotheby's CEO Tad Smith announced that the auction house would report $ 89 million in net income for the second quarter of 2016, an increase over the same period of 2015 even amid a... Read More

This requires high - powered executives to cool their heels, even as the auction houses have to cover their jobs until they arrive.

The sale was an experiment: Typically, Christie's, rival Sotheby's and boutique auction house Phillips each hold one evening sale of postwar and contemporary art in May.

The auction house's London evening sale of Impressionist and modern art on June 22, the eve of the historic Brexit vote, totaled 25.6 million pounds, its smallest tally for a major evening sale in the category in more than a decade.

When actor Ben Stiller approached David Zwirner to help him raise money for Haiti through a charity auction, the art dealer proposed an evening sale at one of the big auction houses.

His works were on offer at all three auction house's evening sales this year, with mixed results.

Perhaps he is referring to the nine paintings about to be auctioned during the benefit evening's proceedings, but the outburst inadvertently serves as an appropriate preamble to the art circuit's largest annual trading platform: Art Basel, the stock exchange to the auction houses» commodity pits.

May 11th: Picasso Painting Sets World Record The 1955 abstract oil painting entitled Les femmes d'Alger, by Pablo Picasso, sold at Christie's auction house this evening for a world record $ 179 million, beating the previous record of $ 142 million set in 2013 by Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

+ A flag made by American artist David Hammons could sell for $ 1 million at the Phillips Auction House's May evening sale in New York.

Tellingly, at a time when the totals at evening sales of contemporary art are becoming ever - more bloated by financial guarantees — Christie's evening sale of May 13 took in $ 744.9 million, the highest total in art - auction history — Mr. Dolman was wary of Phillips entering an arms race to secure the most valuable eight - figure auction lots, which can yield auction houses little in the way of profit.

In an unconventional move, not unlike Christie's decision to include an old - master work in its contemporary art evening sale on Wednesday — the rare Leonardo da Vinci painting that brought in $ 450.3 million, setting a new record for the highest amount ever paid for an artwork — the auction house included what it called «another great Italian export»: a race car.

David Smith's steel sculpture «Voltri Bolton X» (1962), for example, will be featured in the auction house's contemporary art evening sale in New York on Nov. 16, with an estimate of $ 6 million to $ 8 million.

It was auctioned by Christie's auction house in 2013 fetching the hammer price of $ 91,500, and even though the gallery has not yet disclosed its price, one can expect it is well above $ 100,000.

New York Artforum International; December 1, 2006; Higgs, Matthew; 700 + words FAR FROM THE DEAFENING BUZZ that continues to emanate from the auction houses, and even further from the glossy pages of Vanity Fair, whose «art issue» hit newsstands in November, one of the most intriguing - and least commented on - narratives in the New York art world continued to unfold this year.

The Contemporary Art evening sale on 26th November 2014 saw Dorotheum achieve the best Contemporary sale result in the auction house's history.

The boutique auction house has traditionally held its evening contemporary art sale after the giants Sotheby's and Christie's, but this time around, hoping to get buyers before they have spent their money, it decided to go first.