Sentences with phrase «lots by black artists»

The works featured below reflect the current auction market — the top 25 lots by black artists from 2014 - 2016, the highest price achieved by each artist during the period.

Aside from the record sales Ligon registered at the Nov. 11 auction, interest in lots by black artists so far this week has been fairly tepid to average, with most works selling safely within estimates.

Not exact matches

Although art by African American and African diasporic artists represents a nominal share of the lots offered by Sotheby's, Phillips, and Christie's (if they are included at all), as a wider base of U.S. and international collectors begins to buy work by black artists, more inventory will eventually appear at auction.

Phillips London Contemp Sale Pulls in $ 15 Million — The top lots were a 1982 untitled Basquiat for $ 2.5 million and a 1997 black - and - white pattern painting by Christopher Wool for $ 2.6 million, while artist records were set for Nate Lowman ($ 522,728 for a 2005 bullet - hole painting) and Ryan Sullivan ($ 141,438 for a 2011 abstract painting) in a sale presided over by Alexander Gilkes, filing in for the now - gone Simon de Pury.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

The top lot is occupied by a lovely black - and - white print of flames on linen by this year's featured artist Wade Guyton (featured in Whitewall's fall issue).

Jeffrey Vallance stakes out the middle ground in this show of nine diverse artists, constructing witty reliquaries that range from a standard collection of religious medals and dice (representing lots cast by Roman soldiers at the foot of the cross) to The Gods of Las Vegas, a black box containing rhinestone pins spelling out «Elvis,» «Nixon,» «Liberace,» and «Jesus.»

The following lots represent artist records and a selection of other works of interest by black artists offered at auction recently, by location, and in descending order by a wide range of prices realized.

Advised for the first time by Ruba Katrib (SculptureCenter, New York) in collaboration with returning curator Fabian Schoeneich (Portikus, Frankfurt), highlights include: • An installation - performance by Lloyd Corporation at Carlos / Ishikawa in which wholesale - style «lots» of material are auctioned off to fair visitors • A new installation including a video essay by Hannah Black at Arcadia Missa, coinciding with the artist's solo show at London's Chisenhale Gallery; • Various Small Fires recreating a site - specific variation of The Harrisons» «Survival» series, inspired by research into adapting to climate change — in this case, a proposal for the indoor cultivation of fruit trees • Kraupa - Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin) with Anna Uddenberg whose uncanny figurative sculptures were a highlight of the Berlin Biennial 9 (2016)

Black Artists Exceed Estimates at Contemporary Auctions Works by Mark Bradford, El Anatsui, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu and Martin Puryear were among the lots offered at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips spring contemporary art sales this week, exceeding estimates and in the case of Puryear, setting an auction record.

Original works by top - tier artists brought the strongest prices, including Vija Celmins» Untitled (Ham Hock)(Lot 210 est. $ 400,000 — 600,000) that achieved $ 531,250, a large - scale John McLaughlin painting (Lot 38 est. $ 180,000 — 250,000) that brought $ 212,500, and Alexander Calder» sThe Black Arrow (Lot 136 est. $ 40,000 — 60,000) that realized $ 106,250.

The first two lots that opened the sale were by black artists — «Bright Moments: For R.R. Kirk» by American experimental abstract painter Jack Whitten (1939 - 2018); and «Politics» by British painter Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, who is known for her imaginative, moody portraits.