Sentences with phrase «paintings at auction»

«I tried to buy them a couple of times,» collector Teddy Greenspan said of Hughes's paintings at auction, where prices rose as high as $ 68,750 this year.

Last month, protesting an enormous price asked for one of his paintings at auction, he made copies of the 2005 image from the original disk and posted them on Instagram.

«People talk about money and art like it's a new thing,» says Javier Peres, showing a new fluorescent Alex Israel, who just broke a million with his first painting at auction.

Chinese artists roared onto the international art scene about 10 years ago, but few have exhibited the staying power of Mr. Zeng, and none have fetched $ 23.3 million for a painting at auction, the price paid for his version of «The Last Supper» in 2013.

This was followed by a rare Barnett Newman «zip» painting, which sold for $ 22.5 million, and the first large Jackson Pollock drip painting at auction for over 20 years, which sold for $ 23 million — both records.

One of these, a large painting by Ahmed Alsoudani of an imploding dictator (a reference to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein) was looking to emulate the extraordinary # 289,000 his first painting at auction achieved last October.

An abstract painting created last year by Joe Reihsen is estimated at $ 15,000 to $ 20,000, twice the estimate Phillips assigned to his first painting at auction five months ago.

Not exact matches

Sotheby's on Tuesday unveiled a painting by Amedeo Modigliani that's expected to fetch more than $ 150 million at next month's auction.»

A Frida Kahlo painting has sold for just over $ 8 million at auction, a world auction record for the late Mexican artist.

Now filming its third season, the show pits Leroy against three fellow antique dealers, who jet off to locales like Normandy, Glasgow and cities across the United States, bidding for everything from Chinese space helmets to 18th century paintings found at airport lost - luggage auctions.

But the prince, Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al - Saud, is the mystery buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's painting «Salvator Mundi,» which fetched a record $ 450.3 million at auction last month, documents show.

The previous record for a painting sold at auction was in 2015 for one of the 15 versions of Picasso's «Les Femmes d'Alger», the gavel falling at $ 180 million.

Sotheby's sold «Reclining Nude,» an Amedeo Modigliani painting of a naked brunette lounging on tousled bedsheets, for an artist record, making it one of the few paintings to surpass $ 150 million at auction.

Italian - Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani's 1917 painting «Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)» was sold for $ 157 million, a Picasso's 1932 «Le Repos,» was snagged for $ 36.9 million at a huge Sotheby's auction last Monday.

In the face of mounting budget deficits, the James Prendergast Library in Jamestown is planning to sell 19th - and 20th - century paintings and tapestries valued at as much as $ 1 million from its art collection through two New York City auction houses.

A Picasso painting at the center of a nasty divorce battle between billionaire bond king Bill Gross and his ex-wife fetched $ 36.9 million at a Sotheby's auction Monday night — ...

For example, in «Hidden Masterpiece» you are a painting - repair specialist who sells reconstructed works of art at auction, testing visuospatial ability and concentration.

From paintings to coin - op amusements to animatronics to even a covered wagon, fans of Knott's could view the items prior to the auction, then try their luck at bidding in the live auction.

Paintings of ocean scenes have been a longtime favorite subject of artists, and they have recently seen an uptick in sales at antiques marts and auction houses.

His 1982 painting of a skull recently sold at auction for $ 110M.

Pierce Brosnan painted this portrait of Bob Dylan, which is being auctioned off at #amfARCannes.

Staff members at the Fender Museum of Music and the Arts in Corona, California, hope funds from an on - line auction of celebrity - painted «art guitars» will help them build a larger music center and let them provide free music lessons for a greater number of kids.

When a garage - find Bugatti Type 57S Atalante coupe sold at Bonham's Paris auction recently for $ 4.4 million, the surprising thing wasn't its faded paint, rusty trim, and worn interior — it's that the car's condition likely bolstered its selling price.

A painting commemorating the late IndyCar Series driver Justin Wilson by renowned motorsports artist Bill Patterson will be created during this weekend's Pirelli World Challenge / Mazda Road to Indy event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and then auctioned through Auction Cause to benefit The Wilson Children's Fund.

Both vehicles, which are painted in Viper Red paint will hit the auction block during the Barrett - Jackson Northeast auction (June 20 - 23) at the Mohegan Sun Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut.

The vehicle, which was painted at L&G Enterprises and customized at Source Interlink Media's headquarters in El Segundo, California, will be auctioned on eBay immediately following the reveal with proceeds slated for the SEMA Memorial Scholarship Foundation — an organization dedicated to fostering the next generation of automotive aftermarket leaders and innovators.

Yet despite its aggressive air scoops on the hood, C - pillars, and rear quarters, this 1967 Shelby GT350 — soon to be up for grabs at Barrett - Jackson «s Palm Beach auction event — fits the bill, what with its deep, dreamy «Nightmist Blue» exterior paint with white Le Mans stripes.

Up for bids, A 1999 Chevrolet S - 10 Xtream Show truck, This Truck is in exceptional shape has only 64,350 actual miles, Cold Ac, Aftermarket suspension hydraulic system, 1000 watt amplifier and custom subs, Jvc Cd player, custom paint, and dash, «It's a super show truck», This Show Pickup was purchase by (seller / dealer) at the silver collector car auction in Scottsdale Arizona On date 1/23/06, It's been shown several times in car shows and a winner and been in storage the rest of time mileage is correct.

So cute, in fact, that after vehicle number one gets auctioned off to benefit Giuliana Rancic's FAB - U-WISH and The Pink Agenda, the Fresh Fuchsia Metallic - painted Pink Beetle will be available to order in limited quantities at dealerships — no bidding required.

It stars a sexually ravenous sociopath named Judith Rashleigh, who works nights in a champagne bar and during the day as an assistant at a London art auction house — until she's fired after discovering a forged painting.

Or if you do not have a pet, bring a photo of your favorite animal, paint, and donate your work to the silent auction to be held the next day at the Festival.

We will have crafts for the children to make for their pets, games for you and your pets, a silent auction from 1:30 - 4:30, Al Inglima will be our auctioneer for a live auction at 2:00 pm, Photographer Lora Dail will take pet photos, face painting by our good friend Misti, Ask the Vet, Rachael will clip your pets nails, and much more.

Live auction items at past Fur Ball Gala's have included trips to Spain and Blue Sky paintings.

Bid online for any of these cheerful paintings by L. Caron The auction opens March 15 at 5 AM and closes March 30 at midnight To bid, go to www.32auctions.com/encanrosie CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE

We will also have a selection on hand of the «painted pooches» by local artists to be auctioned off in September at our GIM ME SHELTER Fundraiser.

By comparison, in 2001 the auction record for a work by Scully was $ 341,000, which had been achieved in 1990 for an untitled 1985 oil painting at Sotheby's in New York.

Minutes before that 500 - year - old piece hit the block, a two - year - old Kerry James Marshall painting, Still - Life with Wedding Portrait, went up for sale and drew strong bidding, eventually selling for $ 5.04 million with buyer's premium, a new record for the artist at auction, and a figure well above the $ 1.5 million high estimate the auction house had tagged to the piece.

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.

Recent paintings by Freud, on view this month at New York's Acquavella Galleries, are priced between $ 2 million and $ 5 million, not far below the auction - record $ 5.8 million paid for the 1981 — 83 Large Interior W11 (After Watteau) in 1998.

At the nonprofit's auction, if it is a silent auction, show up with a laptop / tablet that has a slideshow with images of your artwork, work - in - progress images, your studio, you painting outdoors, anything that can grab interest.

In the book, Saatchi brushes off allegations of harming the market for Scully, saying, «I did own about five of his works but as his paintings now sell for $ 800,000 + at auction, I don't think it sounds like I've destroyed his market completely.»

The record for a work by the artist at auction is the $ 1.3 million paid for the oil painting The Valencia Wall, 2006, at Sotheby's in London in July of last year, far surpassing the estimate of $ 686,000 / 881,500.

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A 1913 John Singer Sargent of the Grand Canal in Venice, with the San Geremia and the Palazzo Labia visible, painted in oil on his last visit to La Serenissima, flew past its $ 5 million high estimate to a $ 9.09 million finish, the third - highest price at auction for the painter.

NEW YORK — Dominating the headlines at the recent round of spring auctions was Edvard Munch's 1895 version of his iconic painting The Scream.

In 2013, Zeng's painting The Last Supper broke the auction record for the most expensive work by an Asian contemporary artist when it sold for $ 23.3 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

Stella's «Black Paintings,» a series of pinstriped Minimalist works from 1958 — 60, for example, have fetched up to $ 5 million at auction, but most of his more recent works sell for well under $ 1 million.

Tonight's $ 9.76 million Rivera figure also surpassed the highest price ever paid for a work by a Latin American artist at auction, which was previously held by a 1939 Frida Kahlo painting that sold for $ 8 million at Christie's in 2016.

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.

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).