Not exact matches
Twenty works failed to find a buyer — resulting in the lowest percentage of sales by lot in a multiple - owner contemporary
evening auction at Sotheby's
since November 1994.
Everything You Need to Know About the Nahmads — Art writer Randy Kennedy has teamed up with two of the New York Times's veteran metro reporters to pen a sweeping portrait of the Nahmad clan, a famously quiet $ 3 billion art - powerhouse family — with a history of going after a third of the lots in
evening auctions, only to put them in storage to resell later — that has entered an unwelcome spotlight ever
since dealer Helly Nahmad's alleged gambling ring exploded in their faces.
The superb American Abstract Expressionist works acquired by Heinz and Ruthe Eppler — the first comprehensive survey to be offered at
auction since 2012 — were among the
evening's highlights, with Franz Kline's Light Mechanic producing the highest price when it was acquired for $ 20,000,000.
Sotheby's sold $ 144.5 million of Impressionist and modern art, its worst showing at an
evening sale in the category in New York
since the 2009 recession and the latest evidence of a cooling
auction market.
She also became the first woman to run a major
evening sale in London
since the 1990s when she led the first
auction in the city after the Brexit vote.
Perry launched her eponymous fashion label in 2007;
since then her boldly colored, Pop Art — influenced clothes have graced the likes of Lena Dunham and
even Hillary Clinton, of whom Perry is a passionate supporter — she not only attended the 2016 DNC (wearing a sweater covered in pro-Hillary patches) but cochaired an art
auction for Clinton at Gagosian Gallery last September that raised nearly $ 4 million.
Sotheby's has been the market leader of Impressionist & Modern Art
since 1958 when we pioneered the modern
auction market with the Goldschmidt Collection, the first
evening sale of Impressionist & Modern Art.
Even though it was just a 6 % decline from the previous lowest wind tariff, deflation
since the introduction of transparent reverse
auctions in 2017 is in the order of 50 % (Rs2.43 / kWh vs Rs4.5 - 5.00 / kWh).