But a handful of
recent auction records for younger and emerging women artists suggest there may be hope yet.
Gagosian Gallery, New York, London, Geneva, Hong Kong With the artist's most
recent auction record, it would be a folly not to dig out the Jeff Koons.
Not exact matches
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.
Some
auction records are decades old, and others are set for pieces so
recent the paint is barely dry.
But in more
recent works Gursky descends from high abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the
auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted with rubbish from passing cars.
Art Sales Index
records show that three most
recent Clyfford Still paintings to go under the hammer were all sold at that
auction house: «1947 - R - No. 1» fetched $ 21.3 million in 2006 «1955 - D, PH - 387» sold for $ 7.9 million in 2007, and «1946 (PH - 182)» made $ 14 million in 2008.
The most
recent record for a Rothko painting was set in 2012 when Orange, red, yellow sold at Sotheby's for $ 86.9 million — to date the highest price ever fetched by a piece of contemporary art at
auction.
Ferguson mentions
recent world -
record - breaking
auctions at Christie's on the sales of many postwar and contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, and living contemporary artists Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman, Christopher Wool, and Peter Doig.
In the
recent record breaking fall
auctions, new
records were set for many individual artists including pieces by Fernando Botero (Colombia) and Remedios Varo (Spain / Mexico) while Christie's saw paintings by Botero and Wilfredo Lam go to private Russian Collections.
«We have now set three major
auction records for Lewis since 2008... This
recent painting was perfectly timed to take advantage of a ballooning market for Lewis over the last two years.»
Brown's
auction prices have been steadily climbing in
recent years, topping out at Sotheby's London in 2012 with a
record $ 8 million.
But the bidding remained tempered throughout the rest of the night, and even saw a few stumbles: a late painting of two faces on a collaged background by Jean - Michel Basquiat, who has been a market sure thing in
recent months, failed to sell at its $ 5 million - $ 7 milllion estimate, while Cady Noland — who holds the world
auction record for a living woman artist ($ 6.6 million)-- had a section of chain - link fence go unsold at $ 500,000 - $ 700,0000.
Two of the great surprises of the day came in the form of Edward Ruscha's bold Golden Words, 1985, which realized $ 334,600 against a $ 70,000 + pre-
auction estimate — one of the highest
recent prices paid for a work on paper by the artist — while the bidding on Jack Goldstein's acrylic on canvas Untitled, 1983 exploded much the same as the subject matter of the painting itself, finishing at almost seven times the pre-
auction estimate of $ 30,000 + to realize $ 203,150, and establishing a new world
record at
auction for the painter.
At
auction Norman Lewis, John Biggers, Sam Gilliam, Martin Puryear, and Faith Ringgold, are among those achieving new
auction records in
recent years.
This edition is a wonderfully edgy and unexpected work by the great artist, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in the 2011 Venice Biennale, and whose works have been fetching staggering multiples of their estimates at
auction in
recent years, with a
record of $ 710,000 set by one of her ersatz Lichtenstein paintings in 2011.
Following the continuity in rising demand for Pop Art works and
recent price
records at
auction, the movement is increasingly present on the international exhibition agenda.
Record low
auction prices for solar PV in Dubai, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia in 2016 and 2017 confirm that the LCOE can be reduced to USD 0.03 / kWh from 2018 onward, given the right conditions...
Recent auctions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico and Morocco have resulted in onshore wind power LCOEs as low as USD 0.03 / kWh.