Sentences with phrase «painting sets record»

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Georgia O'Keeffe painting sets record for highest price paid for female artist (as on BBC News 21 Nov 14).

When Pace sold the work to the Whitney Museum in 1980 for $ 1 million, the painting set a record for the priciest artwork ever sold by a living artist.

It has been a big year for the growing legacy of Jean - Michel Basquiat, with a touring retrospective attracting crowds in London and one of his paintings setting the record back in May for the priciest work by an American artist ever sold at auction.

A Joan Mitchell painting set a record for a female artist at auction by selling for $ 11.9 million; Alexander Calder's hanging mobile of a fish fetched an artist record of $ 26 million.

Records for 10 artists were established, including for Newman and Alexander Calder, and a Joan Mitchell painting set a record for female artists at auction.

Three years ago at Christie's, one of her painting set a record for a living female artist.

But in the same auction at Christie's five days after the Biennial opening, where Taylor's painting set a record, a painting by Hughes also sailed past its high estimate of $ 7,000, selling for $ 40,000.

In the NYTimes, David Barboza reports that China's leading contemporary artists are finally being recognized in their own country as well: «For years their work could not be exhibited in China, but now the country's leading contemporary artists are being courted by major art collectors abroad and their paintings set records at international auction sales.

Not exact matches

But online lenders say they've been unfairly painted as reckless villains, and they want to set the record straight.

HONG KONG, April 24 - A painting of a reclining nude by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani is set to go under the hammer in New York on May 14 with a record sale estimate of $ 150 million, auction house Sotheby's announced on Tuesday.

For our final series on The Overnight (a film I've lovingly recommended to many) I had the privilege of sitting down with both Jason and director Patrick Brice, whom I also spoke conducted a more in - depth one - on - one (and you can find that interview here) to talk awkward screenings, reaction cams, penis prosthetics, the infamous butthole paintings, cracking up on set, how to make a good comedy movie and, finally, whether to expect more Coconut Records.

The new world record for the Vitesse was set at the VW facility at Ehra - Lessien where Chinese driver Anthony Liu took the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse to 254mph, creating a new world record for an open - topped production car and, more importantly for Bugatti, an excuse to produce a limited run of the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC Edition with a black and orange paint job for $ 1.99 million each.

I guess that's one of the things that makes them different from photographs, in that a photograph might be a record, a snap, one moment — a painting I think is about creating a small world around that photo... I really like that idea of something that you can enter like a box or an exhibition space, and enter these little rooms which for me are memories, but it's not about nostalgia — it's more about setting up something that's still living — so it's almost they're all in the present, rather than in the past.»

The record - setting Hammershøi at Sotheby's was a painting of the artist's wife in a sparse, white interior of the apartment they resided in.

Some auction records are decades old, and others are set for pieces so recent the paint is barely dry.

The previous record for a painting by the artist at auction was $ 40.9 million, which was set in 2009 at Christie's in Paris when a 1911 painting by the French master was offered with a similar impressive provenance, coming from the collection Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.

Bradford's previous record was set arlier this year, when «Smear,» a 2015 painting sold for more than $ 4.3 million at Sotheby's on May 12.

Records were set in Los Angeles, where an Alma Thomas painting was offered, and London where Henry Taylor and Njideka Akunyili Crosby achieved new benchmarks.

Meanwhile, the world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction was set at the same Christie's sale when «Salvator Mundi,» a Leonardo da Vinci painting from 1500 sold for a staggering $ 450.3 million (including fees).

The mixed - media painting sold for more than $ 4.5 million (including fees) at the Post-War and Contemporary Evening Auction last night, setting a record for the British - born Ofili.

According to a Christies press release, «The painting was pursued on the telephone and in the room, going on to set a new artist's record, at more than tripling her previous record of # 146,500 [about $ 224,550].»

The previous auction record for a painting by Marshall was set in November 2014 when «Vignette» (2003), an acrylic on fiberglass, sold for $ 1,025,000 (including fees), also at Christie's.

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye's painting «was pursued on the telephone and in the room, going on to set a new artist's record.»

Three years ago, she set an artist record when her 2001 painting «Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation,» sold for more than $ 4.6 million (including fees) at Christie's New York.

Part of Monet's «Haystack» series, the painting sold for $ 81.4 million, breaking the artist's previous record by nearly $ 1 million that was set in 2008 at Christie's London.

Denser is better, as in «Trade Canoe: Ghost Canoe,» but everything exudes multiple passions: for art history, color, oil paint, endangered cultures and setting the record straight.

Picasso's Femme Assise sets auction record for Cubist painting Picasso's 1909 work Femme Assise sold for $ 63.7 million at Sotheby's London yesterday, becoming the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.

[266] Contemporary painters include Lucian Freud, whose work Benefits Supervisor Sleeping in 2008 set a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist.

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.

Records were set for works by Keith Haring and Jenny Saville, whose painting Shift sold to Liu Yiqian's Long Museum for # 6.8 million.

On the one hand there were some eye - spinning amounts paid, not least the $ 43.8 m for a monumental deep - blue abstract painting — Onement VI by Barnett Newman — sold by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, setting a new record for the artist.

In 2012, Diebenkorn's Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1971 became the most expensive picture by the artist ever auctioned when it went for $ 13.25 million at Christie's New York, dwarfing the previous record set at Christie's when an Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1980 made $ 7.69 million.

Plus: Roman coins discovered in Devon shed new light on empire Clara Drummond wins BP Portrait Award Contemporary Art Society and Frieze launch acquisition fund for UK museums State Hermitage Museum to open Barcelona outpost Picasso's Femme Assise sets record for Cubist painting at Sotheby's and Art Cologne reschedules due to clash with Berlin Gallery Weekend

Compare that to today's cosmic art market with Modigliani and Picasso paintings, selling for $ 170 million + each and you'll soon realize that the $ 40,000 would not even cover the buyers» premium for one of the record - setting paintings.

This record was set by Kilauea, a 16 by 24 inch oil painting on canvas sold Oct. 28, 1999 at Christie's (Los Angeles).

An early painting by Yayoi Kusama is expected to sell for between ten and seven million dollars — which would set a new record.

Sotheby's has announced that it will be selling a Kandinsky from the period when he was painting in Murnau, another work from that time was sold five years ago to set a record for the artist.

My paintings depicting performing musicians are intended to capture and highlight the things that set live music apart from listening to recorded music.»

The previous record for a living artist — $ 28.6 million — had been set in 2010 at Christie's New York by a Jasper Johns flag painting.

The top price of the night was paid for Peter Doig's, Cabin Essence painted in 1993 - 4, which sold for # 9,602,500 / $ 14,855,068 / $ 13,020,990 and follows the record set for the artist at Christie's last season.

The house has also had a dedicated department of African - American art for 12 years, setting records like the $ 965,000 paid in 2015 for a painting by the Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis.

Charline von Heyl's painting was sold for # 110,500 / $ 170,944 / $ 149,838 setting a new record for her work at auction while Amy Sillman's Platypus achieved more than double its low estimate of # 70,000 to achieve # 158,500 / $ 245,200 / $ 214,926.

This important work returns to Christie's New York exactly ten years after it became the most expensive post-war painting ever sold at auction, setting a new world record for the artist.

That night, Zeng Fanzhi's painting set a world auction record for the artist and for Chinese contemporary art.

In a way the artist's paintings resemble a production set where he acts as a director who collaborates with actors to play, record or recreate a situation, various impressions or the effects thereof.

The protagonists of his paintings bear the burden of the history of racism as he works to set the historical record straight.

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.

The artist's previous auction record was set on July 1, 2014, when «Afrosheen,» a barbershop painting executed in 2009, sold at Christie's London for # 1,314,500 including fees (approximately $ 2.2 million).

After her husband died, Stern consigned a portion of their collection, including many works by black artists, among them David Hammons (above), Wangechi Mutu (below), Simone Leigh, Yinka Shonibare, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye, whose painting of five black women in white dresses sold for more than $ 1.5 million, setting an artist record.