Sentences with phrase «expensive living painter»

Peter Doig hit the headlines last year when one of his paintings sold at auction for # 5.7 million, making him Europe's most expensive living painter.

He was also, albeit briefly, Europe's most expensive living painter, after his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for # 5.7 m in 2007.

Gerhard Richter, the world's most expensive living painter, turned 80 on Thursday, and Germany is paying tribute to its art superstar with a number of major exhibitions.

When it's an utterly splendid, signature black - and - white piece by Christopher Wool, one of the top - five most expensive living painters — his work regularly sells for the ten of millions of dollars at auction — and among the most influential artists anywhere today.

Not exact matches

Gerhard Richter is the most expensive and famous living painter, so it is quite a coup for Southampton's John Hansard Gallery to reopen with a major show of his work (in conjunction with Artist Rooms, to 18 August).

Though senior figures have displaced Doig as the most expensive living European painter — first Freud in 2008, then Gerhard Richter, twice — he continues to command stellar prices, including $ 12m last year for «The Architect's House in the Ravine» (1991), another example of the early 1990s paintings based on memories of Canada that remain his bestsellers.

Other artists and collectors including Max Beckmann's granddaughter and the painter Gerhard Richter — Germany's most expensive living artist — have threatened to follow suit.

Perhaps the best instance of an artist the Fishers collected in depth is Richter, the world's most revered (and expensive) living painter.

For a brief moment in 2007, when Charles Saatchi sold White Canoe for nearly six million pounds at Sotheby's, the Scottish - born painter Peter Doig became Europe's most expensive living artist.