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Flourishing interest at international festivals and
record auction prices demonstrate an upsurge in interest for contemporary Chinese and Chinese - American art, and American museums have responded by organizing a plethora of group shows.
Its opulent gold sheen and decadent pattern play into perceptions of art world excess and the ever - increasing threshold of
record auction prices.
The project, announced on Thursday in Manchester, brings together the 83 - year - old German Richter, whose work has repeatedly set
record auction prices for a living artist, with the 79 - year - old Estonian Pärt, the world's most performed living composer.
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Now the consensus on Richter has flipped to the point where the abstract canvases are the ones that make headlines with
record auction prices.
It has been a challenging year in the art world with
record auction prices and soaring fair costs.
This eye - watering price tag vastly exceeds the current world
record auction price of $ 38.1 million paid in 2014 for a red version (formerly belonging to British racing legend Stirling Moss) of the same 250 GTO model.
The record auction price for the Bechers is the $ 411,000 for Wassertürme (Trichter), achieved at Sotheby's Paris in November 2015, just a month after Hilla's death.
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a record auction price for the artist.
The record auction price for a Warhol is currently $ 71.7 million - paid at Christie's in 2007 for Green Car Crash I. See: Most Expensive Paintings: Top 20.
Other top prices included $ 11,284,628 ($ 8.8 m to $ 12.1 m) for Gitane by the Dutch Fauvist portrait painter Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968); and $ 10,216,148 (estimate: $ 6.4 m — $ 9.6 m) for Espagnole by the Russian modernist Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)-
a record auction price for a painting by a female artist.
Although
a record auction price of # 190,000 was set for one of his paintings in June 2004, suggesting that his stature was at last being reflected in the marketplace, Caulfield has yet to receive the international recognition that he deserves.
«Collectors hotly desire works by Christopher Wool, giving rise to
the record auction price achieved at Sotheby's,» says Cheryl Perkey, a Los Angeles — based art consultant.
His works sold for substantial sums of money, including at least one world
record auction price for a work by a living artist.
Not exact matches
The inner - city market in aggregate has held up longer in Sydney than in Melbourne, although the latest
auction price data
recorded a fall.
The sale broke the previous
record price for a work of art at
auction, Picasso's 1905» Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice).»
Einstein letter sells for
record price Artist Lucian Freud wasn't the only one to break his own
auction record this week.
That's a new
record for the highest
auction price ever for an American - made car.
Multiple 250 GTOs have crossed the
auction block in the past few years, with
prices reaching all the way up to a
record - setting $ 38 million in 2014.
After a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO recently set a
record as the most expensive car ever sold at
auction with its $ 38,115,000 asking
price, we rounded up the 10 most expensive cars ever sold at
auction.
This was a
record - breaking
price at
auction for a Countach.
A car so rare, we'll be talking about the
record prices these special editions are sure to get at
auctions sooner rather than later.
Chassis #CSX2000 — the first Cobra ever built — just set a new high -
price record for American cars at
auction.
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Auction records were available in the Sotheby's library, and when a picture of note came in, she diligently searched the Art
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auction history.
With expertise in over 20 specialty collecting areas, Skinner draws the interest of buyers from all over the world and its
auctions regularly achieve world
record prices.
Pollock's work, alongside Lichtenstein's «Woman with Flowered Hat» and Basquiat's «Dustheads,» set
records for the highest
prices ever fetched for the artists at
auction.
The only publicly
recorded prices are those realized at
auction, but their usefulness is limited.
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.
But with its
record - breaking
auction price of just under $ 120 million at Sotheby's last Wednesday, Edvard Munch's masterpiece has become a sign of the times for the fine art world as well.
«Steve» by Barkley L. Hendricks covers the catalog and is the
auction's top - selling lot, selling for $ 365,000 (including fees), a
record price for Hendricks and more than double its high estimate.
Mr. de Balincourt's work is at a, well, higher
price point; the current
auction record for one of his paintings, achieved at Christie's London two years ago, is $ 418,000.
In 2012, his untitled black - and - white work from 1957 was sold for $ 36 million, a
record price for the artist at
auction.
He was responsible for the development and co-curatorship of special twentieth century
auctions such as Looking Forward to the Past, 2015, a sale that included Pablo Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger (Version 0), 1955, which sold for $ 179.4 million and set a
record as the highest
price ever achieved for any work of art at
auction.
The critics also fall into this trap, because instead of looking at Oscar Murillo's art they are so consumed by the
price points and the
auction records that they never discuss the work.
An excerpt of the document reads: «Behind the ostensible façade of Jeff Koons's art world triumphs and
record - breaking
auction prices, lurks a well - oiled machine, more specifically an established, archaic System as old as the hills applied to the art world to exploit art collectors» desire to own Jeff Koons sculptures.
The total hammer
price, which included the buyer premium and all fees came to just north of $ 84 million and thus set a new world
auction record for the artist.
This demand has seen new
record price levels continually being achieved at
auction.
Plus: London's Gasworks receives # 75,000 grant Duchamp's Nu sur nu fetches
record price at
auction Ugo Rondinone installation defaced by vandals Designs revealed for Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art
Kitaj's output, of course, never enjoyed anything like the five-fold jump in
auction prices that Doig's experienced between June 2006 and February 2007, when his White Canoe fetched a
record # 5.7 million.
If you looked online 10 years ago for
auction records for African American artists you'd be lucky to find a name outside of Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Henry Ossawa Tanner and of the ones you would find the
prices were very low.
We've had more of her work than any other
auction house, setting many of her
record prices.
# 2.7 m
Record price for Andreas Gursky's photo A photograph of the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky created in 1999 has sold at auction for a record $ 4.3 million at Christie's New
Record price for Andreas Gursky's photo A photograph of the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky created in 1999 has sold at
auction for a
record $ 4.3 million at Christie's New
record $ 4.3 million at Christie's New York.
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.»
Christie's
auction house, which last year sold the most expensive painting ever, has once again broken a
record this April, although perhaps for slightly more modest
price tags.
Perhaps Hammons did go with the buck: In 2013, a
record price of $ 8 million for his work, the highest for any living black artist, was set at Phillips New York when he consigned an untitled basketball backboard chandelier to the
auction house directly.
Sourced directly from Marina Picasso, the artist's granddaughter, it topped the sale with a
price of # 10.4 million, an
auction record for a Picasso work on paper.