Sentences with phrase «new auction record»

20th Century at Christie's and Defining British Art concluded on 30 June, with the series of ten sales having achieved a total of # 212,545,850 / $ 291,370,503 and establishing new auction records for 20 artists, including Bernard Buffet, Lynn Chadwick, Frederic Lord Leighton, Henry Moore, Bridget Riley and Sean Scully.

This year LAMA achieved new auction records for works by Reg Butler, Ettore Sottsass, De Wain Valentine, Roland Reiss, Robert Rauschenberg, and Isamu Noguchi.

At auction Norman Lewis, John Biggers, Sam Gilliam, Martin Puryear, and Faith Ringgold, are among those achieving new auction records in recent years.

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.

We saw worldwide participation from across 48 countries, and a 71 % increase in online buying year - on - year, as well as new auction records achieved for nine artists including Sung Hee Cho, Ida Ekblad and Krištof Kintera.»

Beginning the week was The 11th Hour Auction on May 13th, which proved to be the biggest wildlife charity auction ever staged as it raised $ 38,827,000 (# 25,237,550 / $ 30,285,060) and set several new auction records.

This year LAMA achieved new auction records for works by Reg Butler, Ettore Sottsass, De Wain Valentine, Roland Reiss, Robert Rauschenberg, and Isamu Noguchi, as well as set a new company record for highest price reached at auction.

Other new auction records were set for Lucian Freud ($ 19,361,000), Zhang Xiaogang ($ 3,961,000), On Kawara ($ 2,393,000), Yoshitomo Nara ($ 1,497,000), Rudolph Stingel ($ 1,217,000) and Fred Tomaselli ($ 937,000).

It set a new auction record for the artist and became the sixth most expensive artwork ever to sell at auction.

Sotheby's sale in London, on June 11, brought a total of # 6.5 million ($ 10 million) and was led by a group of works by Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi, for whom a new auction record was set.

Doubling down on Wednesday night, Phillips and Christie's went back to back on a marathon pair of auctions, Phillips with its 20th Century Sale and Christie's with its Impressionist and Modern sale, that pushed the fall auction week to near completion with surprisingly potent results, including a new auction record for both Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky.

«Plunge» (1992), a large - scale painting by the Chicago artist sold for more than $ 2.1 million (including fees), a new auction record for the artist, according to Christie's and Iris Index.

Holding court with a short but well - appointed pair of sales in London, Sotheby's kicked off a week of auctions in the British capital, closing its Impressionist and Modern Evening sale with a string of impressive figures and a new auction record for Wassily Kandinsky at # 33 million, ultimately bringing a final sales figure of # 127,945,750.

A new auction record was also set for YVONNE THOMAS, with her abstract expressionist canvas, Still Life, circa 1958, achieving $ 26,000, well above the pre-sale estimate of $ 9,000.

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.»

Nine works by Norman Rockwell and new auction records for seven artists drove Heritage Auctions» May 4 American Art Auction in Dallas, Texas to $ 4,571,987.50 versus pre-sale estimates of...

This includes totals from the Swann sale of the collection of writer Maya Angelou, which set a new auction records for artist Faith Ringgold with the sale of her work Maya's Quilt of Life for $ 461,000, which came close to doubling its pre-sale estimate, and John Biggers» Kumasi Market, which fetched $ 389,000.

An enormous Gerhard Richter painting of Milan's Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square) that was commissioned to cheer up the offices of the electronics conglomerate Siemens sold for $ 37m (# 24m) on Tuesday, setting a new auction record for a living artist.

In GBP, that's a new auction record for Rodin.

A large, Qianlong - period Chinese Export «Tobacco Leaf» dinner service set a new auction record for a dinner service when it realised $ 1,152,500.

Dominated by René Magritte, this section of the sale established a new auction record for the artist when Magritte's large and airy canvas, La corde sensible, sold at # 14.4 m.

Fourteen new auction records were established, as well as a new record for the most expensive Post-War and Contemporary work sold at auction.

The first from an edition of six, this piece was Phillips's top lot and set a new auction record for the artist.

Sold for: $ 1,152,500 on 9 May 2018 at Christie's in New York — a new auction record for a dinner service

A controversial history warrants a hefty price tag — a new auction record for the artist, in fact.

Sotheby's in London established a new auction record for a work by Sir Stanley Spencer (in pounds — see note at foot of email), when his Hilda and I at Pond Street sold for # 1,430,050 ($ 2,249,612), far in excess of its pre-sale estimate of # 400,000 - 600,000.

The auction set seven new auction records for artists and three new auction records for artists by medium.

It sold for $ 3,749,500 setting a new auction record for a work on paper by de Kooning.

Another work celebrating the Rockefellers» love of nature, Shore Birds by Morris Cole Graves, easily surpassed its high estimate to create a new auction record for the artist at $ 408,500.

A large, Qianlong - period Chinese Export «Tobacco Leaf» dinner service set a new auction record for a dinner service when it realised $ 1,152,500, almost four times its high estimate.

Two have already been sold by Clapton — in 2012, 809 - 4 changed hands for # 21.3 m, setting a new auction record for the artist and for any work by a living artist at auction.

Phillips 20th - Century and Contemporary Art evening sale set a new auction record for Peter Doig.

While it may not set a new auction record for the artist — currently $ 25.9 m — Cabin Essence is likely to soar to a comparable height.

If it hits the estimate, it will set a new auction record for Kusama since her piece White No. 28 (1960) went for USD$ 7.1 million at Christie's, New York, in 2014.

Certainly this 1955 tour de force comes with the reassuring imprimatur of the Victor and Sally Ganz collection, once the largest private holding of Picasso in the US, and which set a new auction record for a single - owner sale when its Picassos and post-war American paintings were sold in 1997.

Skinner set a new auction record in November 2011 with the sale of the folk art portrait of Abigail Rose for $ 1.27 million.

It sold for $ 567,500 establishing a new auction record for the artist.

A new auction record was also set for Duane Hanson (b. 1925) for his «Housewife (Homemaker),» Lot 22.

Lot 17, «Amphotericin B,» by Damien Hirst (b. 1965), set a new auction record for the artist of $ 335,750, considerably higher than his previous record for a painting of $ 202,885.

The top lot, Matta's La révolte des contraires, 1944, set a new auction record for the Chilean Surrealist artist when it sold for $ 5 million, far surpassing the $ 1.8 million / 2.5 million estimate.

Such a mindset may have been at play in 2013 when Francis Bacon's three - part painting, «Three Sides of Lucian Freud,» established a new auction record for a single work, $ 142 million.

Alongside works by Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, the paintings helped Christie's set a new auction record.

In May 2011, $ 3,895 million was paid for Cindy Sherman's Untilted 96 established a new auction record when $ 3,895 million in May 2011 at Christie's New York, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold; a record held until November 2011.

In the May 18, 2014 Modern Art & Design Auction, LAMA sold a desk and organizer by the designer (Lot 63) that realized $ 50,000 and set a new auction record for the model.

In addition to winning Koons» blue diamond, Larry Gagosian also got Ed Ruscha's Burning Gas Station (1965 - 66) for $ 6,985,000, a new auction record for the artist.

Isamu Noguchi's Chess Table (Lot 280 est. $ 30,000 — 40,000), which established a new auction record for this design, realized $ 187,500, nearly five times its high estimate

Christie's auctioned the work last night for $ 11,801,000, only in the mid-range of its presale estimate but still a new auction record for the artist.

A new auction record was set last week for David Salle, part of the Pictures Generation (and sometimes contributor to In Other Words) when Footmen (1986) sold for $ 480,000 ($ 583,500 with fees, est. $ 250,000 — $ 350,000) to Peter Brant at Christie's, part of the Spiegel Collection.