Sentences with phrase «museum sold it at auction»

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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.

Another work of art from the collection a Massachusetts museum that came under intense criticism for deciding to sell multiple works in an effort to stay open has sold at auction.

Up to three of these prototypes were then sold at auction, while one went to a future Jaguar museum, and the one was kept by Jaguar for running demonstrations.

This one - of - a-kind Corvette Z06 (VIN 0001) will be sold at auction later this year to benefit the National Corvette Museum.

This quartet of expert prints, which seemingly scatters the letters of lifted sentences at random to form compositions that are sapped of the ability to communicate, is an elegant example of his trademark work, which in 2011 received a major survey at the Whitney Museum — and which has routinely sold for staggering multiples of its estimates at auction, going into the millions.

Arguably Prince's best - known work, the image of a cowboy galloping under a bright blue sky had been the catalogue cover for the artist's 1992 survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and it became the most expensive photograph ever to sell at auction when New York dealer Stellan Holm bought it at Christie's in November 2005 for $ 1,248,000.

But in 2007, when his 1991 White Canoe, a nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

A Kerry James Marshall work originally donated to a museum's benefit auction sold at Christie's for a record - setting price.

When the museum sold the work with Christie's in 2015, it established a record price for Ofili's work at auction, selling for nearly # 2.9 m.

According to the Art Newspaper, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office is supporting the museum's decision to sell works, including Norman Rockwell's painting Shuffleton's Barbershop, in a series of auctions at Sotheby's New York.

Richter was the star at the Christie's auction the following day as well and Jean - Michel Basquiat's «Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)» was the talk of the evening as it sold for $ 15 million.

Lot 27, «Celebration» a large painting by Lee Krasner, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art for $ 1,911,500, which smashed the artist's previous auction record of $ 198,400 set at Sotheby's May 14, 2003.

(NYT) New Picasso Discovered, Heads to Market - In one of those classic check - your - attic tales, the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science found a layered glass mosaic by Picasso (titled Seated Woman With Red Hat) in an old mislabeled shipping crate and is now hoping to sell it at Guernsey's auction house for as much as $ 40 million, which would multiply the museums endowment ninefold.

Were all these gifts sold at auction, the gavel price could run above $ 1 billion, museum insiders estimated.

Mehretu's credentials are clearly established: she's a MacArthur Genius, her paintings have sold for over $ 4 million at auction, her works have been exhibited in museums around the world, and she was tapped by Goldman Sachs to create a massive mural for the lobby of its prominent New York City headquarters.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York will sell more than four hundred photographs in a series of auctions over the course of this year beginning with four works that will be on the block at Christie's New York's photographs day sale on October 10.

Last sold at auction in 1973 at Sotheby's in London, Femme assise has remained in a private collection for over forty years, during which time it has featured in some of the most important international exhibitions of Picasso's work, including key exhibitions on Cubism: Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1989; Picasso: Sculptor / Painter at Tate Gallery, London, in 1994; and Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington in 2003 - 04.

His American flag paintings are in many museums around the world and one sold last year, at auction for an astounding # 23.7 m.

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Somewhat controversially, the museum and city are also selling four works at an auction on Nov. 9 to raise money for the endowment, with court approval and no objections from the estates.

The lucky hunters plan to sell the suits at a special auction conducted by the American Space Museum, tentatively set for November 4.