Sentences with phrase «sold at auction»

Five works will be sold at auction on May 16 and 17, while two extremely large artworks — Warhol's «Hearts» and the Rauschenberg — will be put up for private sale.

A set of six Andy Warhol self - portraits, created a year before the artist's death, sold at auction for $ 30m (# 17.9 m).

On May 11, 2010, a Francis 1957 painting titled «Middle Blue» was sold at auction for $ 6,354,500, a record for the artist.

Were all these gifts sold at auction, the gavel price could run above $ 1 billion, museum insiders estimated.

Last month, a similar - size example of the artist's long - neglected figure paintings sold at auction for $ 12.6 million.

After Bacon's triptych sold for a record - breaking $ 142 million, we look at the world's most expensive artworks to have sold at auction

The artist's Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) rang up at $ 142.4 million at Christie's in November 2013, becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction.

The previous world record for a painting sold at auction was $ 142.4 m, for British painter Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud in 2013.

The seven works marked for deaccession will be sold at auction or in private sales.

But those looking for the kind of three - ring - circus that defined last November's contemporary sale at the house — where Francis Bacons's three - panel study of Lucian Freud became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, selling for $ 142.4 million — must have been disappointed.

It has been a big year for the growing legacy of Jean - Michel Basquiat, with a touring retrospective attracting crowds in London and one of his paintings setting the record back in May for the priciest work by an American artist ever sold at auction.

The previous record for a work sold at auction was Pablo Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version O), 1955, which sold at Christie's for $ 179.4 million in May 2015.

Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché (1917 — 18) soared past its already astronomical $ 100 million on - request estimate en route to a record - smashing price of $ 170.4 million at Christie's Monday night, making the magnificent nude portrait the second - most - expensive painting ever sold at auction — and, in a twist, a high point in an otherwise surprisingly tepid evening.

By coincidence, a version of The Crucifixion, accepted as by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, sold at an auction in Zurich last summer for # 673,000 ($ 1.2 million).

Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché (1917 — 18) soared past its already astronomical $ 100 million on - request estimate en route to a record - smashing price of $ 170.4 million at Christie's Monday night, making the magnificent nude portrait the second - most - expensive painting ever sold at auction — and, in a twist,... Read More

When the piece sold at auction in 2004 for $ 3 million, Cattelan's act of smirking impiety was confirmed as a high - priced collectible.

Albert Einstein's theory of happiness sold at auction.

The painting, sold at Christie's New York salesroom this week has become the most expensive work of art sold at auction to date.

That Picasso painting Women of Algiers (Version O) has broken the world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

In 2016 a large scale drawing work was sold at auction in Paris at PIASA auction house.

Several artworks toppled records throughout the night — most dramatically Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969, which sold for $ 142.4 million to beat out Edvard Munch's The Scream as the most expensive piece of art ever to be sold at auction.

Represented in London by Victoria Miro, his work has never been sold at auction: Buyers of his art, he says, are not speculators.

[24] All, or very nearly all, of Cobb's paintings which have sold at auction have been attributed to his father, despite some being signed «II» or «Jr.,» and some bearing dates later than 1931.

The work was sold at auction at Lempertz in 2008.

The pair were made for the court of the Qianlong Emperor and only four similar examples have been sold at auction.

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.

«This is the most important old master painting to have been sold at auction in my lifetime.»

The list is comprised of the ten highest value lots by a single artist sold at auction in the decade from 2005 to 2015.

Known for his innovative approach to the auction business Francis Outred has been responsible for the consignment and sale of some of the most significant paintings, including Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud, at the time the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.

Ever since the piece was sold at the auction, the art world was speculating about the mystery bidder who took home the work after a protracted contest lasting nearly 20 minutes at the auction house.

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 sale was heavily focused on icons and masterworks, achieving an astonishing 10 record prices and breaking the record for any work of art ever sold at auction.

Howard Hodgkin's Bloomsbury home, containing items from the artist's personal collection to be sold at auction by Sotheby's.

Together with Amy Cappellazzo, he co-led the post-war and contemporary department and was responsible for many of the auction house's biggest hauls — among them, the 2004 sale of Pablo Picasso's Garçon à la pipe (1905) that first broke the $ 100 - million mark and the $ 179 - million Picasso, Les Femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)(1955), that currently holds the record for most expensive artwork sold at auction.

Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York Totals $ 388.5 Million (# 240.9 Million / $ 299.1 Million) Most Valuable Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction Ever Top Prices Of The Week - Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow Soars to $ 86.9 Million (# 53.9 Million / $ 66.9 Million) Setting a New Record for Any Post-War and Contemporary Work Sold at Auction 21 New World Auction Records Set 50 Works Sell Above $ 1 Million Works from the Pincus Collection (Evening and Day Sales) Totaled $ 174.9 Million, the Most Expensive Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art Ever Sold Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 8 totaled $ 388.5 million (# 240.9 million / $ 299.1 million), marking the highest total ever in auction history for the category.

Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living artist — Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 - 2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $ 58.4 million at Christie's.

The world got its new most expensive painting ever sold at an auction on November 15th, at Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale.

Helena Newman, the worldwide co-head of Impressionist and Modern Art for Sotheby's, had presided over the first sale of the spring season in London last week, bringing $ 63.7 million for Picasso's «Femme Assise» (1909), the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.

The following painting in the series, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, was sold by Christie's in 2008 for $ 33.6 million, making it — at the time — the most expensive painting by a living artist ever to be sold at auction.

The Colony Room finally closed its doors in 2008 and these are the last of the company's art works to be sold at auction.

This important work returns to Christie's New York exactly ten years after it became the most expensive post-war painting ever sold at auction, setting a new world record for the artist.

His work «Balloon Dog (Orange)» sold for $ 58.4 million in 2013, the highest price for a living artist's work sold at auction.

Fourteen new auction records were established, as well as a new record for the most expensive Post-War and Contemporary work sold at auction.

It is the current world record for a single artwork by a living artist ever sold at an auction ($ 58.4 million).

The Art Newspaper reports that it was last sold at auction in 2014, when art historian Bendor Grosvenor bought it as an «English School» work at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury for # 4,200.

For example, sales of multiple works by an artist may cumulatively add up to a higher sum than the price of an artist ranked above them, but each artist appears once based on their most expensive work sold at auction.

His photographs sold for ever more stellar prices — in 2012, his work Dead Troops Talk fetched $ 3,346,456 at Christie's, New York, making it the third most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.

In December, photographer Mitchel Gray brought lawsuits against Jeff Koons, the auction house Phillips Auctioneers, and an unnamed former owner of Koons» work, alleging that the artist plagiarized his photograph in a 1986 work that was then sold at the auction house.

At a total of around 2,000 objects (of which only 150 to 200 have so far been located), Budge's was one of the largest private collections sold at auction during the Third Reich.

Meanwhile, this past fall, Christie's sold a recently rediscovered painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci for upwards of $ 450 million, making it the most expensive work ever sold at auction.