Sentences with phrase «modern and contemporary art sale»

Sotheby's first auction in mainland China, the Modern and Contemporary Art sale on 1 December in Beijing, saw healthy overall bidding, selling 82 percent of lots and setting a new record for Chinese grandmaster Zao Wou - ki.

In recognition of the growth in interest, British auction house Bonhams started specialising in contemporary African art in 2007 and saw average prices increase five-fold by 2016 and Sotheby's first - ever Modern and Contemporary Art Sale took place in London in May 2017 and totalled # 2,794,750.

Explore this year's Milan Modern and Contemporary Art sale, now on view in the magnificent surroundings of the Palazzo Clerici

Frank Hettig, Heritage's director of modern and contemporary art sales, said he was «astonished» at the price, «especially since the other work by [Milles] in the sale only went for $ 15,000.»

Sotheby's auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art sales, May 29 — 30, realized healthy and, at times, stunning, results with combined sales bringing a total of $ 35 million ($ 43.8 million).

An Andy Warhol grid of four day - glo Marilyns constituted half of the total sales at last night's timid $ 78.6 million auction at Phillips, which closes the week of modern and contemporary art sales in New York.

Feb 5 - 12: Sotheby's Sells Outstanding Pissarro One of the highlights of Sotheby's Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art sales was undoubtedly Camille Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre, Matinee de Printemps (1897), one of the most important Impressionist paintings to be offered for sale in the past decade, which went for # 19.7 million ($ 24m), twice its pre-sale estimate, thus establishing a new record price for the artist.

New York's auction houses have just notched up $ 1.42 billion (# 871 million) in a fortnight for a series of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art sales.

Not exact matches

The sale came as part of a themed auction called «Bound to Fail,» a selection of 39 works of modern and contemporary art exploring the idea of commercial failure and risk - taking to expand the boundaries of art.

This year an estimated $ 2 billion worth of art is on sale and includes both modern and contemporary work.

At the Sotheby's June 8 sale of South Asian modern contemporary art and Indian miniature paintings, just 37, or 42 percent, of the 88 lots offered found buyers.

NEW YORK — Several works in the 19th - century European paintings sales garnered strong prices at a typically quiet auction - market period that stretches from the end of the major, early, May New York auctions to the start of the London Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions each June.

Sotheby's had a record - breaking sale of modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam on March 8, when it auctioned off the BAT (British American Tobacco) ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, one of Europe's most highly regarded corporate art collections.

NEW YORK — London sales of South Asian modern and contemporary art, at Sotheby's and Christie's last week, presented a mixed picture of the market with widely uneven results.

In related articles, I look more at the birth of the modern museum, the sale of the Rose Museum at Brandeis, and what these say about commercial pressures on contemporary art.

Since Ritchie exhibited «The Universal Adversary» at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 2006, his work has been included in numerous exhibitions including: the Venice Architecture Biennale; the Seville Biennale; the Havana Bienal; «Matthew Ritchie, The Iron City,» St. Louis Art Museum; «Wunderkammern» Museum of Modern Art, New York; «The Guggenheim Collection,» Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; «Not For Sale» PS1, New York; «Confines,» IVAM, Valencia, Spain; «The Shapes of Space,» Guggenheim Museum, New York; «Between Art and Life,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; «The Kaleidoscopic Eye,» Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; «In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; «Experimental Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum; «The Last Scattering, Phase Two,» London, «To the Milky Way by Bicycle,» Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany; «The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art,» Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Dominique Lévy, formerly the director of private sales of modern, post-war, and contemporary art at Christie's and founding partner of L&M Arts, formed her eponymous gallery in January 2013.

In its new home Allan Stone Projects will operate as a private gallery devoted to scholarship in and secondary market sales of its vast collection of modern masterworks, contemporary art, tribal and folk art, Americana, and significant decorative arts and industrial design.

Masterworks from the Collection of Antoni Tàpies will appear in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction (6 October, London), the Up Close sale (3 October, London) and forthcoming Impressionist and Modern sales in February 2018.

Next weeks» Impressionist and Modern Art, and then the Post-War and Contemporary sales at Christie's and Sotheby's are expected to bring in $ 600 million.

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Coinciding with May sales of Contemporary and Modern art in New York, these selling exhibitions provide a great opportunity to view and collect in depth works in a variety of media by a handful of celebrated artists.

The 20th Century season opens with the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 15 May, continues on 16 May with the Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper and Day sales, before the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 17 May.

The week of stellar Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art sales in New York also features landmark works by Vincent van Gogh, Richard Diebenkorn, and Jeff Koons, and property from esteemed private collections, including The Collection of Elizabeth Stafford, The Collection of Joan and Preston Robert Tisch, and The Collection of Brad Grey.

She deals with international teams of Impressionist and Modern and Post-War and Contemporary Art, helping with cataloguing, expertise and gathering for abroad sales.

One can also gauge the strength of the Italian market by the success of recent sales like Modern Art in NY, The Artist's Muse, and Post-War and Contemporary Art, which included works by such artists as Modigliani and Fontana.

Dealers said sales were strong at FIAC, the main attraction of a modern and contemporary art week in Paris, which followed a buying spree in London at auctions, galleries and the Frieze Art Faart week in Paris, which followed a buying spree in London at auctions, galleries and the Frieze Art FaArt Fair.

Sotheby's plans modern and contemporary African art sales On Monday, Sotheby's announced that its London operation is to launch sales dedicated to modern and contemporary African art next year.

With a record - breaking result for a Modern & Contemporary African art sale, and significant prices for artists from every corner of the continent, this is clearly a market that is poised for growth.

Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale — November 2017, New York; Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction — November 2017, New York; Magnificent Jewels — 13 November 2017, Geneva; Design — 20 November 2017, Paris; African and Oceanic Art — 22 November 2017, Paris; Post-War and Contemporary Art — 6 December 2017, Paris

This May eight important works from the collection of Cleveland Clinic will go under the hammer in New York — three in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, and the other five in the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale.

This led Tsui to the conclusion that, «A portrait of Mao Zedong by Andy Warhol sold for less than its pre-sale estimate and a work by Keith Haring failed to sell at Sotheby's modern and contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong on Sunday, casting doubt on Asian collectors» appetite for top - end Western contemporary art.»

Given the tentative state of the stock markets and the national economy, this should prove to be quite a test of the contemporary art market, although this evening sale really consists of more post-war modern masters than «contemporary» artists although it does have works by Jeff Koons (b. 1955) and Robert Gober (b. 1954).

Autistica, the UK's leading autism research charity and Mehta Bell Projects, are pleased to announce «An Infinitely Beautiful Mind», a charity art sale and exhibition which will present the works of artists ranging from modern masters, contemporary and emerging talents through to outsider art, whose work share the desire to represent the human experience through highly detailed and laborious artistic techniques.

Across the board in both the Contemporary and Modern Art sales, there is a substantial attention paid to sculpture, with some of sculptural works by the likes of Henry Moore, Jeff Koons, Bruce Nauman and Urs Fisher.

The auction house has also announced its first sale of modern and contemporary African art, to be held in its London saleroom next month (16 May), saying there had been «exponential increase in market demand» for this field over the last decade.

Swann and other regional auction houses periodically sold works by African American artists in their general sales of post-war, modern and contemporary art.

He is the director of Modern Culture, a visual arts enterprise, specializing in the exhibition and sale of works by a selection of contemporary artists on the primary market and the sale of works, produced from 1956 to the present, on the secondary market.

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.

London sales of South Asian modern and contemporary art, at Sotheby's and Christie's last week, presented a mixed picture of the market with widely uneven results.

On Monday, Sotheby's announced that a block of modern and contemporary art from the personal collection of Pierre and Sao Schlumberger is expected to sell for upwards of $ 85 million when it goes to auction this November.Highlights of the sale include... Read More

Heritage Auctions» May 22 sale of modern and contemporary art in Dallas, strong prices were reached for works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Larry Poons, Donald Judd, Dale Chihuly and Vik Muniz.

Several works in the 19th - century European paintings sales garnered strong prices at a typically quiet auction - market period that stretches from the end of the major, early, May New York auctions to the start of the London Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions each June.

Pairing curated installations of Modern and contemporary work with stimulating programming, Art Basel's 2015 edition featured strong sales across all levels of the market.

SOTHEBY»S IS HOLDING ITS FIRST - EVER modern and contemporary African art sale May 16 in London.

LAMA, champion of California artists, remains at the forefront of the Modern and Contemporary Fine Art and Design auction market as made evident with total auction sales realizing $ 4.1 million, selling 142 % of the 445 lots by value.

Basel Buyers Bring Big Bucks — Moods are positive at Art Basel in Basel, writes Bloomberg's Scott Reyburn, as collectors approach the expansive (and expensive) contemporary and modern art fair with confidence following last May's record setting round of auction salArt Basel in Basel, writes Bloomberg's Scott Reyburn, as collectors approach the expansive (and expensive) contemporary and modern art fair with confidence following last May's record setting round of auction salart fair with confidence following last May's record setting round of auction sales.

The Day Sales on 1 April — Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Contemporary Art, and Modern Asian Art — were all as successful as the evening sale.

Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary Art auctions on 31 March closed with the second highest total for a Sotheby's Hong Kong evening sale.

The auction house tallied $ 1.2 billion in sales in two weeks of Impressionist, modern, postwar and contemporary art last month.