Sentences with phrase «sculpture sold at auction»

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Interest in the work was exceptional and the mixed - media sculpture sold for $ 8,005,000, surpassing its $ 5 million to $ 7 million estimate, and setting a record for the artist at auction.

His Walking Man 1 sculpture broke auction records when it sold at Sotheby's London for # 65m and his works wowed visitors to an acclaimed exhibition of his portraits at the National Portrait Gallery last year.

A 1963 sculpture by Mark di Suvero sold for $ 1.25 million, exceeding the contemporary artist's auction record of $ 968,000, at Richard Gray Gallery.

Two of the founders of the New York - based Dia Art Center Heiner Friedrich and Fariha de Menil Friedrich, sued the organization to prevent them from selling paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, John Chamberlain and Barnett Newman at Sotheby's New York during its contemporary art auctions on 13 and 14 November.

Jeff Koons made himself a household name with his gargantuan steel sculpture series Balloon Dog, which broke records in 2013 when one of his five supersized hounds became the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction, going for a staggering $ 58.4 m.

At the same auction Jeff Koons's sculpture Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 - 2000, topped the auction record for a living artist, exceeding estimates to sell for $ 58.4 million.

Lot 58, a large untitled 1968 sculpture by Alexander Calder sold for $ 5,831,750, breaking the previous world auction record for the artist of $ 4,185,750 set at Sotheby's November 14, 2000.

This Henry Moore sculpture «Standing Man and Woman,» was part of film star Lauren Bacall's art collection and sold for $ 56,250 at her estate auction earlier this year.

At Phillips in Midtown Manhattan, in an auction called «The New Now,» a 2011 sculpture by Kline shot $ 20,000 over its high estimate, ultimately selling for $ 37,500.

In June 2008, he and his wife sold Jeff Koons's 1995 — 2000 sculpture Balloon Flower (Magenta) at auction for $ 25.8 million to buy a group of 1982 Sigmar Polke paintings, currently on view at the Warehouse.

A smaller version of Clothespin, although still 10ft tall, is also Oldenburg's auction record; the 1974 sculpture sold at Christie's in 2015 for $ 3.6 m.

Giacometti: Pure Presence at National Portrait Gallery Alberto Giacometti recently set the record for the world's most expensive sculpture when it sold for over $ 140m at auction.

I would say the biggest highlight was one of my sculptures selling for the high estimate at a contemporary African Art auction in Paris last November.

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Lisson gallery sold $ 4 million of art in a day including a large driftwood sculpture by land artist Richard Long for about # 300,000, far more than his work has ever sold for at auction.

Sotheby's is hardly testing the water here: Bourgeois holds the record for the most expensive sculpture by a woman to be sold at auction (a within - estimate $ 28.2 million in November 2015 for her nine - foot bronze Spider, 1997) and Kusama once held the auction price record for any living female artist ($ 7.1 million for her painting White No. 28 (1960) in 2014) before being dethroned by Cady Noland.

A final decision on the sale is expected to be made later this week, with a view to the sculpture being sold at auction in February.

-- Fred Sandback's prices have been on the rise lately: One of the conceptualist's drawings tripled its estimate in Munich last month, while a $ 200,000 sculpture just sold at Christie's set the artist's second - highest auction record to date.

At the auction where «Flag» was sold, the anonymous bidder who bought the Johns — now identified as Ms. Walton — also won Mark Rothko's «No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange)» for nearly $ 45 million; a marble - and - steel Bourgeois sculpture titled «Distant Figures» for $ 1.8 million; and a Joseph Cornell box, «Untitled (Palais de Cristal)» for $ 665,000.

«At Christie's Martin Puryear's 1989 untitled red cedar and pine sculpture from the collection of Frances R. Dittmer sold for $ 1,805,000, more than twice the high estimate and an auction record for Puryear.»

The Magna Carta sold for $ 21.3 million and the Guennol Lioness brought $ 57.2 million, a record for an antiquity at auction and sculpture at auction.

On Wednesday, Alberto Giacometti's sculpture «Walking Man I» sold at Sotheby's for just over $ 104.3 million, the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction.

In line with its experience of the Irish art market, the Solomon Gallery provides free advice on how to start or expand a private or corporate art collection, including guidance on how to buy and sell paintings and sculpture at auction.