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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.

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.

That same year, Mr. Twombly's work passed the million dollar mark at auction.

Since 2013, several of his works have passed the $ 1 million mark at auction.

The top mark at auction when accounting for inflation was made with a 1942 Rivera, Vendedora de Flores, sold at Christie's in New York in November 1991 for $ 2.97 million, which in today's dollars would be about $ 5.38 million.)

The top mark at auction when accounting for inflation was made with a 1942 Rivera,

Gilliam's work is hitting new high marks at auction and «Green April,» a solo exhibition at David Kordansky, was on view last year.

Not exact matches

Auction sales at Scottsdale — the U.S.'s largest auto auction by volume — fell by 15 percent to $ 251 million in January, marking the first drop in sales sincAuction sales at Scottsdale — the U.S.'s largest auto auction by volume — fell by 15 percent to $ 251 million in January, marking the first drop in sales sincauction by volume — fell by 15 percent to $ 251 million in January, marking the first drop in sales since 2010.

So for 2018, for Leo, I am starting #BabyLossHour on Twitter (starts Tuesday, 8 pm, come along and join in), to mark his second birthday we will begin #ALeoBitOfKindness (more details coming soon), I'd like to do another Auction, hopefully hit at least # 25,000 in fundraising, with our next Tommy's goal of # 10,000 (not likely this year, but at some point), and another # 1,000 to MAMA Academy to get a brick on their Wall of Hope.

To support the construction of the new home of the Studio Museum in Harlem, artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mark Bradford and Glenn Ligon are donating work to sell at a Sotheby's auction in May, the auction house announced.

Sports; Read with synopsis; Kohli becomes second India batsman to reach 900 - point mark; Two more qualifiers identified on Day 2 of Mercedes Trophy; Delhi «Catwoman» Jocelyn Wildenstein and her fiancé Lloyd Klein have been spotted out at a Sotheby's art auction just days after they were arrested for

Also, be sure to mark your calendars for next year's auction which will be held on May 11th, 2019, 5:00 p.m. at the Avalon Manor, 3550 US 30, Merrillville, IN.

To recap: Marguerite Hoffman sued David Martinez in 2010 after a big red painting by the abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko turned up on an auction block not long after she sold the piece to Martinez at a discount of $ 17.6 million (he eventually got $ 31.4 million for it at auction).

The event marks the 10th anniversary of The Fine Wine Auction and dinner for Action Against Hunger, which will be held on the 26th November 2016 at the historic 1 Lombard Street.

Did you hear the one about the $ 45 million Mark Grotjahn triptych that sold to Yusaku Maezawa, buyer of Adam Lindemann's $ 57.3 million Basquiat at auction last spring, who you must follow on Instagram for his unabashed material enthusiasms alone?

Paintings by postwar abstract artist Mark Rothko are highly coveted — in May one of his works sold at auction in London for $ 50 million.

Gorvy also secured the winning bid for Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow, 1961, in May 2012, which remains a record for the artist at auction.

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Ten world auction records set in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, as 20th Century at Christie's surpasses the # 250 milliauction records set in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, as 20th Century at Christie's surpasses the # 250 milliAuction, as 20th Century at Christie's surpasses the # 250 million mark

According to Phillips, Kaphar's previous high mark was set Dec. 15, 2015, when an early painting by the artist sold at Swann Auction Galleries in New York.

The price set a new auction record for the Los Angeles - based artist, whose previous high mark was achieved at Christie's New York with «See Alice Jump.»

A 1963 sculpture by Mark di Suvero sold for $ 1.25 million, exceeding the contemporary artist's auction record of $ 968,000, at Richard Gray Gallery.

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2012 has been an exciting year for us and we have loved every moment of this fantastic journey, whether it was curating the best galleries at the Armory Show, ADAA, and Art Basel Miami Beach, putting together video interviews with a fantastic set of experts from the top galleries and auction houses, or writing about Egon Schiele and Mark Rothko.

In the artworld, this translates into big dollars spent at the big November and May auctions, and at the top galleries, especially those that don't feel the need to vie for the top spot in this magazine's yearly rankings — that is, the Goodmans, the Gladstones, the Coopers, the Marks — because they're confident the money will be there when all is said and done.

The sale marks the first time such an extensive grouping of Frank's work has appeared at auction and an unusual chance to see so many of these iconic images as photographic prints, as opposed to on the printed page.

Marking its first time at auction, Femme accroupie (Jacqueline) comes from a private collection, and is estimated to sell for $ 20 - 30 million.

Thornton watches a painting by Marlene Dumas climb over the $ 1 million mark — at that point, Dumas was only the third living woman artist whose work had broken the million - dollar ceiling at an auction.

Berkshire Museum marks first tranche of works for auction The Berkshire Museum has marked 13 works from its collection for sale at Sotheby's New York next month, reports ArtNews.

Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York Totals $ 388.5 Million (# 240.9 Million / $ 299.1 Million) Most Valuable Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction Ever Top Prices Of The Week - Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow Soars to $ 86.9 Million (# 53.9 Million / $ 66.9 Million) Setting a New Record for Any Post-War and Contemporary Work Sold at Auction 21 New World Auction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caAuction Ever Top Prices Of The Week - Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow Soars to $ 86.9 Million (# 53.9 Million / $ 66.9 Million) Setting a New Record for Any Post-War and Contemporary Work Sold at Auction 21 New World Auction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caAuction 21 New World Auction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caAuction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the caauction history for the category.

Together with Amy Cappellazzo, he co-led the post-war and contemporary department and was responsible for many of the auction house's biggest hauls — among them, the 2004 sale of Pablo Picasso's Garçon à la pipe (1905) that first broke the $ 100 - million mark and the $ 179 - million Picasso, Les Femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)(1955), that currently holds the record for most expensive artwork sold at auction.

Before bids began, the mural - sized painting was positioned to reach a record result with the estimate set at approximately $ 8.3 million — $ 11 million, which far exceeded Bradford's previous auction high mark.

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The star of this auction is Lot 31, «No. 2 (Blue, Red and Green,» an 81 - by - 67 1/8 - inch oil on canvas, shown at the top of this article, by Mark Rothko that was executed in 1953 and has an estimate of $ 8,000,000 to $ 10,000.

For nearly 30 years a Hawaiian art collector Douglas Himmelfarb has been trying to prove that the painting he bought for $ 319.50 at auction in Los Angeles in 1987 is an authentic Mark Rothko painting.

This evening auction of Contemporary Art November 11, 2003 at Christie's is highlighted by two rare works by Clyfford Still, two excellent paintings by Franz Kline, a beautiful late work by Willem de Kooning, two Mark Rothkos, a good Lee Bontecou, an amusing Roy Lichtenstein, an excellent Joan Mitchell, an impressive Lee Krasner, and two «numbers» paintings by Jasper Johns.

Ferguson mentions recent world - record - breaking auctions at Christie's on the sales of many postwar and contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, and living contemporary artists Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman, Christopher Wool, and Peter Doig.

The seven works marked for deaccession will be sold at auction or in private sales.

All sorts of records have been smashed: Mark Rothko's White Center sold for $ 72.8 million, doubling the top price for a postwar work; and the world auction record for a work by a living artist was set by Jeff Koons» Hanging Heart, at $ 23.5 million.

A stunning 1860 brooch featuring an ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady, depicting the president in the iconic «Cooper Union» pose, sold for $ 35,000 - a new high water mark for this item at auction.

The auction high mark for works by El Anatsui is $ 1.4 million (established at Sotheby's New York in 2014).

Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow sold for $ 86,882,500, setting a world auction record for any Contemporary work of art and a world auction record for the artist, at New York, Rockefeller Plaza on 8 May 2012 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.

Christie's held the most successful postwar art auction in history, setting a record for any postwar work at auction with a $ 87 million Mark Rothko, and sold 95 percent of its offerings.

At Phillips, the boutique auction house owned by Russia's luxury retailer Mercury Group, Dana Schutz's colorful painting of figures bowing over a disjointed table set a new mark at $ 605,00At Phillips, the boutique auction house owned by Russia's luxury retailer Mercury Group, Dana Schutz's colorful painting of figures bowing over a disjointed table set a new mark at $ 605,00at $ 605,000.

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Mark Flood's «Mild Eroticism» will be auctioned at Christie's in New York to benefit the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Mark Bradford's mixed - media - and - collage on canvas Mithra (2008) sold for $ 2.6 million, the artist's highest price at auction.

The sale opened with two MOCA works: ten bidders fought for Mark Bradford's Smear, driving the final price to $ 4,394,000, a new record for the artist at auction; as many bidders competed for an untitled work by Mark Grotjahn, which finally sold for $ 6,522,000, also a new auction record.

The last two years marked record - high prices at auction for artists including Joan Mitchell, Tamara de Lempicka, Louise Bourgeois, Irma Stern, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Helen Frankenthaler, Rosemarie Trockel and Louise Lawler.

Only a handful of those artists — Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, and Julie Mehretu among them — have made it into the upper reaches of the market with works that fetch millions of dollars at auction.