Sentences with phrase «stratospheric auction prices»

The Whitney Museum of American Art has mounted a Jeff Koons retrospective as the swansong in its uptown Breuer building before reopening in its new, Renzo Piano — designed space in Chelsea next spring.1 Besides his stratospheric auction prices, Koons is famous for industrially produced pop imagery such as inflatable hearts and balloon dogs, all of it turned out on a large, sometimes gigantic...

Given the South Fork's vibrant and talented artistic community, it seems indulgent to keep harking back to the glory days of midcentury titans like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell, aside from breathlessly reporting their stratospheric auction prices.

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Francis Bacon and Jeff Koons grabbed the headlines with their stratospheric auction records this past November — mind - boggling prices that helped push Christie's sale total to a record of its own, nearly $ 640 million for a single week of contemporary sales in New York.

The 1 % of the 1 %: Stratospheric Prices at Auction Mask the Teeth Grinding of the Real Art Market (Observer)