Sentences with phrase «made auction records»

No one, myself included, seems to have been bowled over by these paintings, which should serve as a cautionary note that there is an occult or shadow history, which is not a chronicle of rave reviews, glitzy museum exhibitions and news - making auction records, paralleling the conventional one.

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Sotheby's sold «Reclining Nude,» an Amedeo Modigliani painting of a naked brunette lounging on tousled bedsheets, for an artist record, making it one of the few paintings to surpass $ 150 million at auction.

That's a new record for the highest auction price ever for an American - made car.

That sum represents a new world record, the most money paid for any American - made car to have crossed an auction block, and makes the unrestored Cobra one of the fifteen most expensive cars sold at auction.

SIX BLACK ARTISTS made news recently when their work set sales records at Swann Auction Galleries.

In 2012, Diebenkorn's Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1971 became the most expensive picture by the artist ever auctioned when it went for $ 13.25 million at Christie's New York, dwarfing the previous record set at Christie's when an Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1980 made $ 7.69 million.

In 2013, Katharine was responsible for writing and creating the 200 page book which accompanied the sale of Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) by Francis Bacon, which made the world record for any work of art at auction selling for $ 142million.

At Christie's New York in 2014, the work was included in its contemporary art auction that made a record $ 853 million.

Neo Rauch's Nerv then made it a round 10 by selling for # 353,000 / $ 431,366, which is a new world auction record for a work on paper by the artist.

All bought at auction between 1995 and 2003, they are now expected to make 10 or 15 times those prices, with estimates ranging from # 800,000 to # 3.5 million, where a new record could be in sight.

Now the consensus on Richter has flipped to the point where the abstract canvases are the ones that make headlines with record auction prices.

The auction record for a medicine cabinet made between 1988 and 1991 was achieved with the $ 1.2 million sale of «Never Mind» (1990 - 91) at Sotheby's in New York.

Sotheby's contemporary art auction in New York last night saw massive sales of works by Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ai Weiwei, with the latter two making record - breaking sums.

Art Sales Index records show that three most recent Clyfford Still paintings to go under the hammer were all sold at that auction house: «1947 - R - No. 1» fetched $ 21.3 million in 2006 «1955 - D, PH - 387» sold for $ 7.9 million in 2007, and «1946 (PH - 182)» made $ 14 million in 2008.

Jeff Koons made himself a household name with his gargantuan steel sculpture series Balloon Dog, which broke records in 2013 when one of his five supersized hounds became the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction, going for a staggering $ 58.4 m.

On that last point, Schiff wanted to respond to point we make at the top of this post about charity auction records often being outliers:

Another young painter to have made a mark at auction, Lucien Smith likewise seemed to come out of nowhere to end the year with new record at Philips's Under the Influence sale in New York, where Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree (2011) fetched $ 389,000.

TRACEY EMIN EXORCISM OF THE LAST PAINTING I EVER MADE Following the success of Tracey Emin's iconic My Bed, 1998, which achieved a world record price at auction quadrupling its pre-sale estimate to realise # 2,546,500 / $ 4,351,969 / $ 3,178,032 (estimate: # 800,000 - 1,200,000) in July 2014, Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, 1996 (estimate: # 600,000 — 800,000, illustrated left), documents a seminal moment of breakthrough within the artist's oeuvre, witnessing an impassioned re-engagement with her painting and drawing practice after a six - year hiaMADE Following the success of Tracey Emin's iconic My Bed, 1998, which achieved a world record price at auction quadrupling its pre-sale estimate to realise # 2,546,500 / $ 4,351,969 / $ 3,178,032 (estimate: # 800,000 - 1,200,000) in July 2014, Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, 1996 (estimate: # 600,000 — 800,000, illustrated left), documents a seminal moment of breakthrough within the artist's oeuvre, witnessing an impassioned re-engagement with her painting and drawing practice after a six - year hiaMade, 1996 (estimate: # 600,000 — 800,000, illustrated left), documents a seminal moment of breakthrough within the artist's oeuvre, witnessing an impassioned re-engagement with her painting and drawing practice after a six - year hiatus.

Christie's Nails a $ 127.7 Million London Contemp Sale — The auction house shot past its high estimate, setting records for Peter Doig ($ 11.9 million for a 1991 canvas, past the $ 10 million paid for a canoe painting in 2007 that briefly made him the world's most expensive living artist — and more than 20 times the amount the seller paid in 2002), Allen Jones ($ 3.4 million for a 1969 assemblage piece), and Pierre Soulages ($ 5.1 million for a 1961 black abstraction, which went for more than seven times its high estimate).

Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché (1917 — 18) soared past its already astronomical $ 100 million on - request estimate en route to a record - smashing price of $ 170.4 million at Christie's Monday night, making the magnificent nude portrait the second - most - expensive painting ever sold at auction — and, in a twist,... Read More

Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché (1917 — 18) soared past its already astronomical $ 100 million on - request estimate en route to a record - smashing price of $ 170.4 million at Christie's Monday night, making the magnificent nude portrait the second - most - expensive painting ever sold at auction — and, in a twist, a high point in an otherwise surprisingly tepid evening.

Mr. Grotjahn's auction record, set at Leonardo de Caprio's charity auction at Christie's earlier this year, is $ 6.5 million, but the painting that sold tonight was much smaller than the record - setting painting, making it notable.

It would be difficult to make an argument based on aesthetics to account for the world auction record achieved at Christie's by Piero Manzoni's «Achrome.»

This past year already saw so many historic moments for online art sales, from the start of Amazon Art and the return of 20x200 to auctionata's sale of an Egon Schiele drawing for $ 2.4 million in June, making this the record sale for an online - only auction.

The artist made headlines in February 2013 when his painting «The Architect's Home in the Ravine» sold for $ 12,000,000 at a London auction, breaking his previous record.

[11] In 1988, Johns» False Start was sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $ 17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for a work by a living artist at auction, and the second highest price paid for an artwork at auction in the U.S. [32] In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago - based hedge fund Citadel LLC) bought False Start (1959) from David Geffen [33] for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.

«Helter Skelter» rocketed past this previous record, making Bradford's work the most expensive ever by a living African American artist at auction.

Making his evening - sale debut at Sotheby's was Lowman, whose «Black Escalade» (2005) fetched $ 665,000, surpassing the high estimate of $ 450,000 and setting an auction record for the artist.

Lee's work made an explosive entrance onto the western market back in 2006 when one of his paintings fetched a triple - estimate record $ 140,000 at auction.

Hitler sold in New York Controversial statue of Adolf Hitler made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold for a record $ 17.2 million at a Christie's auction in New York.

Reinhardt's auction record is $ 2.7 million for a square red painting made in 1953.

Works by Sturtevant and Carol Rama, whose auction record was broken three times in 2016, are also due to go under the hammer, with consignments still being made prior to publication.

After spirited bidding by four people, «Flag» by Jasper Johns, a 17.5 - inch wide American flag painting made from encaustic and silk from 1983, sold for $ 36 million, setting an auction record for the artist.

Mr. Pendleton said the sale underscored the importance of black artists, «not that anyone should need an auction record to make this clear.

Wednesday evening's auction of post-war and contemporary art made a grand total of $ 380.6 m (# 237.1 m), Sotheby's highest total ever, with auction records set by artists such as Cy Twombly and Brice Marden.

May 3: Scream Goes For $ 120 million Yesterday, Sotheby's New York auctioned The Scream (1895) by the haunted Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch for a record - breaking $ 119.9 million, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.

Making their Sotheby's evening sale debut was the Bruce High Quality Foundation, whose 2012 canvas Hooverville rang up at $ 425,000, also an auction record.

Drawings include the exquisite Head of a Muse, which broke records when auctioned at Christies in 2009, as well as the sublime Heads and Hands of two Apostles, considered to be the finest drawing Raphael ever made.

Museums are still catering to famous male artists, and auction records reflect on longstanding predilections for works made by white men.

Picasso's new world auction record was made 20 minutes into the sale, reported Christie's.

Records were also set for Aida Muleneh (Ethiopia) and Ade Adesina (Nigerian), two artists who made their auction debut, according to Sotheby's.

This photograph shows one of Lucas's Nud sculptures, tangles of body - like protuberances that she makes with leggings; last year one of her photographic works set a new auction record for the artist at Christie's London in the fall, when it fetched nearly a half million dollars.

During New York's November Impressionist and Modern evening sale six world auction records were made, with Vincent van Gogh's Laboureur dans un champ realising $ 81,312,500 and Fernand Leger's Contraste de forms realising $ 70,062,500.

«It makes no sense that the auction record for Sigmar is half of that of Gerhard,» says David Zwirner, whose gallery took on representation of the Polke estate last year.

In December, twelve small paintings by artist Qi Baishi set a new record for a work of Chinese art as it sold for $ 140.8 million, making Baishi the first Chinese artist to break the $ 100 million mark at auction.

Christie's contemporary evening sale made history last night in grand style, storming through its 72 lots to realize a world record $ 495 Million sales total that included new auction records for Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean - Michel Basquiat, and 13 other artists, aided auction house's impressively assembled catalog.

One of his paintings made a new record for the artist in 2002, selling at auction at Christie's London for over $ 10 million (the estimate had been $ 4 to $ 5 million).

The sale has made particular waves in the past several days following the auction house's announcement of an astronomical $ 150 million pre-sale estimate for Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché (Sur le Côté Gauche), a 1917 painting by the master modernist that is already being trumpeted as the new auction record holder for his work, based on the estimated price and fees alone.

Soniei: Most of my art is sold by auction, and even though my auctions might end at half the price I would like to sell a painting, I know that I'll still be making money from that same painting from the prints I sell, the Google ads from the YouTube videos I recorded while making that painting, etc..