Sentences with phrase «top auction record»

Her concrete chair works sell privately for between $ 700,000 - $ 900,000, while the top auction record was $ 365,000 in 2014.

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.

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The Sydney Race horse auctions hit another record last week, last record of sales was 2008 the economy must be at the top soon!!

In addition to breaking sales records, the car was also the top seller for the entire week's worth of Monterey auctions and fell in line with RM Sotheby's pre-sale estimate of «in excess of $ 20,000,000.»

The stars of the sale were undoubtedly the 11 lots contained in the «Exclusively Porsche — the 964 Collection» subgrouping, with the 1993 911 Carrera RS 3.8 blowing away its top - end estimate of $ 1.5 million and setting a new record for a 964 sold at public auction.

Johns, whose False Start (1959) fetched an auction record $ 17 million in 1988, easily ranks among the top 100.

«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.

It was the top lot of the sale, setting a world auction record for Basquiat.

It was purchased by New York gallery Acquavella for # 1.2 m, double the top estimate and an auction record for Scholz.

The February auctions in London, held by Christie's, Phillips and Sotheby's, will be closely followed by art insiders and the general public alike: oftentimes auction records are achieved for the top quality works that the auction houses have to compete for.

With strong results from the live sale on 10 October 2017 that set a world auction record for Peter Beard and highlighted Irving Penn who had four lots within the top 10 sale results, the series of seven online - only auctions have added to such successes.

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.

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 caAuction 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 caAuction 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 caAuction 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 caauction history for the category.

With her auction record of $ 4.6 million and transcontinental biography — born in Ethiopia and raised in Michigan — she is one of the top - selling living female artists and bona fide stars in the art world that prizes multiculturalism.

On that last point, Schiff wanted to respond to point we make at the top of this post about charity auction records often being outliers:

2) Willem de Kooning Untitled XXV topped the artist's previous auction record selling for $ 66,327,500 inc..

Jasper John's encaustic and silk Flag, (1983) went for $ 36 million, an auction record for the artist, with the top price of the night $ 45 (# 28.56 m), going to Rothko's No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange), 1951, albeit $ 5m less than its estimate.

The top lot was Will Cotton's Taffy Forest, which went for a final hammer price of $ 272,500, setting an auction record for Mr. Cotton.

All sorts of records have been smashed: Mark Rothko's White Center sold for $ 72.8 million, doubling the top price for a postwar work; and the world auction record for a work by a living artist was set by Jeff Koons» Hanging Heart, at $ 23.5 million.

THE MOST VALUABLE VISUAL ART For information about the world's highest priced visual art and record auction prices, see: Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings

The sale totaled $ 2.5 M, with five of the top lots breaking previous auction records, all of which were set by Swann since the department's inception ten years ago.

Frederick Hammersley's Adjective (1966)(Lot 309, est. $ 60,000 — 90,000) brought $ 100,000, a new world auction record for the artist — exceeding his past eight top prices, all set by LAMA.

High - end science fiction artwork is expected to take top lot honors as Frank Frazetta's Red Planet, 1974 (est. $ 150,000 +), crosses the block barely two months after Heritage set a seven - figure world auction record for the artist.

The top lot was Sir Isaac Newton's (1642 - 1727) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (estimate: $ 1,000,000 - 1,500,000), which realized $ 3,719,500, nearly four times its low estimate and setting a new world auction record for a printed scientific book.

In total, 23 artist records were established representing 46 % of the auction, and the top 3 prices were paid for works by female artists (Tracey Emin, Rebecca Warren and Berlinde de Bruyckere).

The top price of the auction was paid for To Meet My Past, a four poster bed by Tracey Emin, which sold for # 481,875 / $ 770,518 / $ 567,649 — a world record price for the artist at auction.

Brown's auction prices have been steadily climbing in recent years, topping out at Sotheby's London in 2012 with a record $ 8 million.

Though Sigmar Polke's Roter Fisch (Red Fish) was projected to be the top lot of the evening with a # 3.5 - 4.5 M estimate, Jenny Saville's Shift shocked the room as it tripled the # 1.5 - 2M estimate, selling for # 6.8 M ($ 9M) and setting a new auction record for the artist.

A superbly colorful and remarkably well - preserved American hand - carved Cigar Store Indian, which had sat in a Washington, D.C. - area basement for at least 20 years, brought a world record public auction price of $ 203,150 on May 22 as the top lot in Heritage Auction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana Aauction price of $ 203,150 on May 22 as the top lot in Heritage Auction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana AAuction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana AuctionAuction.

The result was an auction record for the fashionable Romanian - born artist and the top lot of the week for Christie's.

The top lot of the sales, The entrance to the Turkish Garden Café by Louis Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845) was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum for $ 4,562,500, setting a new world auction record for a work by the artist.

The top lot, Newman's 1961 abstract canvas that until recently was on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, fetched $ 84.14 million, almost doubling the artist's previous auction record of $ 43.8 million set just a year ago.

A single work — Henry Moore's curvaceous, monumental bronze — realized almost as much, 24.7 million pounds, an auction record for the British sculptor and the top lot of a special auction marking the company's 250th anniversary.

THE MOST VALUABLE VISUAL ART For record auction prices, see: Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Top 20 Most Expensive Paintings

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.

RECORD AUCTION PRICES For a list of the Top 10 prices achieved by painters here, see: Most Expensive Irish Paintings.

While the Christie's auction was steeped in work by Abstract Expressionist painters like Rothko, whose 1961 canvas «Orange, Red, Yellow» sold for nearly $ 87 million — a record for any contemporary artwork at auction — the Sotheby's sale had a different emphasis, with several top examples of Pop Art.

June 6, 2011: Russian Artist Ilya Repin Still a Top Seller Christie's auction house claimed a new auction record for their sale of a painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin.

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The auction house reported that sales for the 120 lots totaled more than $ 1.26 million, Nigerian and Ghanaian artists garnered top bids, and record prices were achieved by more than 10 artists.

Frederick Hammersley's Adjective (1966)(Lot 309) brought $ 100,000 in the March 1, 2015 Modern Art & Design Auction, a new world auction record for the artist — exceeding his past eight top prices, all set bAuction, a new world auction record for the artist — exceeding his past eight top prices, all set bauction record for the artist — exceeding his past eight top prices, all set by LAMA.

Executed in pen and brush on Whatman drawing board, the map was the auction's top - selling lot and set an auction record for Campbell.

Like Richter, it was testing confidence at the top end of the market with prices that reflected auction records for the artists achieved in May.

LAMA holds the top three auction records for works by Karl Benjamin.

Most notable was Japanese collector Mr. Yusaku Maezawa, who acquired five contemporary works at Christie's for a total of $ 81.3 million, and became the winning bidder of the week's top lot, Jean - Michel Basquiat's Untitled, and set a new auction record for Richard Prince with his purchase of Runaway Nurse for $ 9.7 million.

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The top lot of the sale was Yves Klein's Le Rose du bleu (RE 22), which sold for # 23,561,250 ($ 36,779,111 / $ 29,428,001; illustrated above), a world record price for any French post-war artist at auction.

Sotheby's has achieved numerous world record prices at its art auctions for works by Old Masters as well as the world's top contemporary artists.

TOP PRICED IRISH ART For details of auction records set by artists from Ireland, see: Most Expensive Irish Paintings.