Sentences with phrase «figure auction lots»
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.
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Other new auction records were Lot 28, «Blind Man's Bluff,» a sensual sculpture by Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911), which sold for $ 1,439,500; Lot 10, «The American Sweetheart,» a good work by Robert Indiana (b. 1928), which sold for $ 614,500; Lot 8, «Great American Nude # 44,» by Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931), which sold for $ 944,500; Lot 35, «In the Beginning Was The Image,» a colorful and chaotic work by Asger Jorn (1914 - 1973), which sold for $ 2,099,500; Lot 46, «The Beach Series,» photographs of skinny young people of no particular distinction by Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959), which sold for $ 405,000; Lot 40, «Figure 11.23,» a rather bloody looking work by Jenny Saville (b. 1970), which sold for $ 537,500; Lot 42, «Mailander Dom (Fassade),» a handsome church facade photograph by Thomas Struth (b. 1954), which sold for $ 317,500; Lot 45, «Wand (Mural),» by Thomas Demand (b. 1964), which sold for $ 141,500; Lot 48, «Thanksgiving,» a group of 149 photographs by Nan Goldin (b. 1953), which sold for $ 284,500; Lot 64, «Adieu Batista,» by Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), which sold for $ 361,500; Lot 68, «A Certain Lunar - Eclipse (Project for Humankind No. 2),» by Cai Guo - Qiang (b. 1957), which sold for $ 229,500; and Lot 24, «Untitled (Fragments),» by Toba Khedoori (b. 1964), which sold for $ 65,725.
Lot 8, «Seated Figure with Pink Background,» by Nathan Oliveira (b. 1928), sold for $ 317,500, smashing the artist's former auction record of $ 68,750.
Sixty three lots were offered for sale at the second edition of the Photographs — Icons & Style sale at Christie's Paris, with works by Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Nick Brandt, among others, with Helmut Newton's Big Nude II as the highest priced lot of the auction — this is a work from Newton's first and most important set of the dramatic life - size standing nude figure studies, that he initiated in 1980.
Sales results show Swann Auction Galleries recorded $ 2.36 million in total sales (including fees), four lots sold for more than six figures and, most notably, seven artists achieved record prices.
Other highlights of this auction include Lot 20, «Duridium,» a 26 - by - 36 inch magna on canvas, dated 1964, by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997), estimated at $ 600,000 to $ 800,000, which sold for $ 607,500; Lot 21, «Ileana Sonnabend,» a 1963 metallic paint on canvas, 77 3/4 - by -128-inch work by Frank Stella (b. 1936) that has a high estimate of $ 600,000, and which sold for $ 684,500; Lot 29,» Evening in the Studio,» a monumental painting that out - Rubens Rubens by Lucian Freud and has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,500,000, and which sold for only $ 2,422,500; Lot 30, «Lying Figure,» a large, interesting composition by Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 2,500,000 and is starker than his more painterly small works, and which was passed at $ 1,600,000; Lot 35, «Bedouin (Personage Gris et Rougeatre),» a great Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) painting that is conservatively estimated at $ 700,000 to $ 900,000 and which sold for $ 992,500; and Lot 46, «Aux Bons Principes,» a more colorful but not as strong Dubuffet that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,000,000, and which sold for $ 2,202,500; and Lot 63, an untitled, large painting by Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) that has a mysterious, luminous and mystical sense of a great mountainscape by the Sung Dynasty masters of China and has a conservative high estimate of $ 300,000, and which was passed at $ 150,000.
Lewis's Untitled, oil on board, 1947 (the cover lot of the catalogue), brought $ 149,000; while Untitled (Processional Figure Composition), oil, pen and ink on paper, 1956, realized $ 87,500, setting an auction record for a work on paper by the artist.
High - end science fiction artwork is expected to take top lot honors as Frank Frazetta's Red Planet, 1974 (est. $ 150,000 +), crosses the block barely two months after Heritage set a seven - figure world auction record for the artist.
Frederick Hammersley's Figure of Speech, 1974 - 75, (Lot 139 est. $ 30,000 - 50,000), nearly doubled the previous auction record (also set by LAMA) bringing $ 87,500.
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