So far in this year's
major evening auctions of contemporary art in New York and London, Pace artists have made up a third of the offerings and have sold for a combined $ 124 million.
Not exact matches
It is telling that S.B. 130 also fails to ban or
even restrict at all the Ohio dog
auctions that serve as
major distribution channels for puppy mills in 15 states.
Considering the past several outings for the
auction houses in London and New York, where only a handful of buyers were reportedly keeping the market afloat, this week's sales hit a different note entirely, with ample phone bids that saw one
major auction record fall with Constantin Brancusi's La Muse Endormie demolishing expectations at over $ 57 million, and marquee lots performing quite well over the course of the
evening.
After a momentous
auction, Jussi Pylkkänen, Global President, Christie's, remarked: «This
evening we witnessed a record total for any Asian Art sale, and a spectacular success for a great museum through the sale of
major Chinese works of art and paintings.»
Christie's has announced the sale of 44
major Post-War works from The Essl Collection which will be sold in a landmark, stand - alone
evening auction in London on Monday, 13 October 2014.
At one point in the
evening, Belott staged a parody of an art
auction in which paintings by
major artists (Joe Bradley, Katherine Bernhardt, Jamian Juliano - Villani, Eddie Martinez, etc — all friends of Belott) were destroyed on stage and run through a paper shredder.
THIS
EVENING, A
MAJOR PAINTING by Njideka Akunyili Crosby is going on the
auction block at Christie's New York.
The Met Gala, Important Impressionist and Modern
auctions, the third edition of Frieze Art fair on Randall's Island, and of course the Contemporary Art
evening sales which are coming only next week but already making the news with their
major lots and hefty guarantees.
Imagine you work for the postwar / contemporary department at one of the world's top three
auction houses — Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips — and your
major annual November New York
evening sale happens to fall on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day.
Sotheby's has announced that it has secured one of the
major estates to be
auctioned in November during the New York
evening sales: the Steven and Ann Ames Collection, which contains works by Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Willem de Kooning,... Read More
Sotheby's has announced that a rarely seen painting from Picasso's Blue Period, La Gommeuse (1901), as well as one of Monet's
major Waterlilies paintings, Nymphéas (1908), will be
auctioned at their Impressionist and modern art
evening sale in New York... Read More
The
auction house's London
evening sale of Impressionist and modern art on June 22, the eve of the historic Brexit vote, totaled 25.6 million pounds, its smallest tally for a
major evening sale in the category in more than a decade.
Led by five
major works by Sigmar Polke, arguably the greatest grouping of Polke works ever offered at
auction, which realized # 16,252,500 / $ 20,608,170 / $ 26,117,770 (see single sold prices below), tonight's sale saw strong bidding from international buyers resulting in half of the lots (49 % / 21 lots) selling above estimate, many for double or
even five times of their pre-sale estimate — like Aggregate (2004) by Anthony Gormley which sold for # 1,258,500 / $ 2,022,410 / $ 1,595,778 against an estimate of # 150,000 - 200,000.
But although in addition to Cans, Banksy has also created work featuring collectors bidding on a picture at
auction called «Morons» and decorated the steps of Tate Britain with a stencilled «Mind the Crap» prior to the 2001 Turner Prize, his work is already in many
major art collections - he's
even donated work to a number of British galleries in a series of stunts similar to those carried out in New York's museums.
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.
Thinking Big, a special
auction of
major contemporary sculpture and installation offered from the Saatchi Gallery, took place this
evening at Christie's and realized # 3,086,350 / $ 4,935,074 / $ 3,635,720.
LONDON — Christie's
evening Impressionist and modern art sale on Feb. 7 got London's fortnight of
major sales off to a flying start with a # 135 million ($ 213 million)
auction that exceeded its presale estimate of # 86 million / 127 million.
Credit: Emma Grady Christie's inaugural Green
Auction: «A Bid to Save the Earth» raised $ 1,387,000 last
evening, on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day to benefit four
major environmental NGOs: