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.
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.
Not exact matches
That's a far cry from just five months ago, when Sotheby's and competing house Christie's
garnered record
sales, and worldwide attention, by each selling $ 1 billion worth of
paintings and sculptures over the course of a week.
But it wasn't until 2010, at the
sale of works from the Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers corporate art collections at Sotheby's New York in 2010, that one of her abstract
paintings first
garnered $ 1 million.»
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery attracted private and institutional collectors and curators, and finished the day with a $ 450,000
sale of one of their Beauford Delaney
paintings; Lehmann Maupin reported «strong
sales throughout the preview» on
paintings by Hernan Bas, which range from $ 30,000 — 200,000 each; Marian Goodman Gallery associate director Emily - Jane Kirwan told us their Giuseppe Penone booth
garnered «fantastic interest»; Mnuchin Gallery partner Sukanya Rajaratnam noted that reception of their booth was «extremely positive»; and by 7:30 pm, two of Betty Cuningham's Bill Traylor works, each priced over $ 100,000, had been dotted red (a pricing practice the dealer still embraces).