You would point out that the three black artists (Martin Puryear, David Hammons and Jean - Michel Basquiat) are all incredibly well established in the market,
with auction records of $ 1.8 m, $ 8m and $ 110m respectively.
Wednesday evening's auction of post-war and contemporary art made a grand total of $ 380.6 m (# 237.1 m), Sotheby's highest total ever,
with auction records set by artists such as Cy Twombly and Brice Marden.
«It's been a long - time coming,» Virgilio Garza, Christie's head of Latin American Art, said of the new high mark, and now Frida and Diego are finally neck - in - neck
with their auction records.»
Overdue: Recognition of Sam Gilliam's Work Continues to Gain Momentum
with Auction Record at Christie's
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.
He is certainly cheaper,
with an auction record of $ 3.7 million.
Read More: Recognition of Sam Gilliam's Work Continues to Gain Momentum
with Auction Record at Christie ’s
Not exact matches
The
auction house broke a world
record this spring
with the sale of an 18 - karat gold, diamond - encrusted Himalaya Birkin for nearly $ 380,000.
HONG KONG, April 24 - A painting of a reclining nude by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani is set to go under the hammer in New York on May 14
with a
record sale estimate of $ 150 million,
auction house Sotheby's announced on Tuesday.
An anonymous bidder agreed at
auction to pay $ 3,456,789 to eat lunch
with Warren Buffett, tying the
record for the right to dine
with one of the world's most admired investors.
This spring the
auction house broke the world
record for the most expensive diamond ever sold at
auction with the $ 71.2 million sale of the «Pink Star» diamond.
And even before the disclosure of the
record - breaking purchase in a New York art
auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably
with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.
The sale broke the previous
record price for a work of art at
auction, Picasso's 1905» Boy
With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice).»
Second, this coffee has set
records at
auction,
with the 2006 lot being the first green coffee to sell for over US$ 50 a pound green and US$ 100 a pound roasted.
Value Wins at Sonoma Wine
Auction Many people told me this off the
record so I'm going to lead
with it: the Sonoma County Barrel
Auction is more fun than Premiere Napa Valley...
The Premier League have announced
record breaking TV rights
with Sky and BT winning an
auction to land the contract which allows them to televise the most exciting league in the world.
Football clubs all around the country are playing their part in the
auctions,
with The Royal British Legion hoping to break their previous fundraising Poppy Appeal
record with a target of # 47 million this year for all their fundraising activities.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
February 2018 could be a date etched into the automotive
auction annals when a Ferrari 275 Prototype crosses the
auction block
with record - breaking potential.
«I thought this was going to be one of those special days and it was, culminating
with the new world
auction record,» James Knight, Bonhams Group motoring director, said.
The iconic blue and yellow Subaru Impreza
with chassis number 001 driven by the legendary Colin McRae breaks world
record selling for # 230,000 at
auction.
Super Black 2015 Nissan Altima 2.5 SV FWD CVT
with Xtronic 2.5 L I4 DOHC 16V *** CARFAX CERTIFIED 1 - OWNER WITH SERVICE RECORDS, Altima 2.5 SV, CVT with Xtronic, Navigation System, Power Sliding Moonroof with Tilt.THE NEW JERSEY STATE AUTO AUCTION HAS BEEN AN EBAY PREMIER SELLER SINCE 2005 WITH A 100 % POSITIVE FEEDBACK RAT
with Xtronic 2.5 L I4 DOHC 16V *** CARFAX CERTIFIED 1 - OWNER
WITH SERVICE RECORDS, Altima 2.5 SV, CVT with Xtronic, Navigation System, Power Sliding Moonroof with Tilt.THE NEW JERSEY STATE AUTO AUCTION HAS BEEN AN EBAY PREMIER SELLER SINCE 2005 WITH A 100 % POSITIVE FEEDBACK RAT
WITH SERVICE
RECORDS, Altima 2.5 SV, CVT
with Xtronic, Navigation System, Power Sliding Moonroof with Tilt.THE NEW JERSEY STATE AUTO AUCTION HAS BEEN AN EBAY PREMIER SELLER SINCE 2005 WITH A 100 % POSITIVE FEEDBACK RAT
with Xtronic, Navigation System, Power Sliding Moonroof
with Tilt.THE NEW JERSEY STATE AUTO AUCTION HAS BEEN AN EBAY PREMIER SELLER SINCE 2005 WITH A 100 % POSITIVE FEEDBACK RAT
with Tilt.THE NEW JERSEY STATE AUTO
AUCTION HAS BEEN AN EBAY PREMIER SELLER SINCE 2005
WITH A 100 % POSITIVE FEEDBACK RAT
WITH A 100 % POSITIVE FEEDBACK RATING.
Euribor — December 2010 Comment: The German Treasury yield curve is terribly steep as other maturities can not keep up
with Schatz yields which have dropped to a new
record low at 0.958 %; yesterdayâ $ ™ s
auction carried a coupon of 1.00 %, the lowest ever and the ECBâ $ ™ s target rate.
Concurrently
with the 2nd rescission they
recorded a 3rd defective Notice of Default, cut off all communication
with us, and sold our property illegally at
auction, ignoring our right and request to payoff the loan to get rid of them.
To date, the company's reported Q1 - Q3 (for FY 2013)-- so we can calculate LTM EPS is now EUR 4.93 (and likely to improve
with record Jun & Sep
auctions reported since).
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.
And while the Sotheby's sale is still full steam ahead,
with about 100 lots still to go as this story goes to press, we've already seen at least one major
auction record.
Minutes before that 500 - year - old piece hit the block, a two - year - old Kerry James Marshall painting, Still - Life
with Wedding Portrait, went up for sale and drew strong bidding, eventually selling for $ 5.04 million
with buyer's premium, a new
record for the artist at
auction, and a figure well above the $ 1.5 million high estimate the
auction house had tagged to the piece.
The previous
auction record for a Hammershøi work was the # 590,400 paid in 2006 for Interior
with easel, Bredgade, ca. 1910.
Like the
auction -
record $ 82.5 million paid in 1990 for van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890), eight - figure sums typically are reserved for works by artists no longer
with us.
The sale included works by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean - Michel Basquiat, establishing a total of 16 new world
auction records,
with nine works selling for more than $ 10 million and 23 for more than $ 5 million.
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.
The previous
record for a painting by the artist at
auction was $ 40.9 million, which was set in 2009 at Christie's in Paris when a 1911 painting by the French master was offered
with a similar impressive provenance, coming from the collection Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.
Market Interest:
With Intimate Portrait, Njideka Akunyili Crosby Achieves
Auction Record for Second Time in Two Months
Doubling down on Wednesday night, Phillips and Christie's went back to back on a marathon pair of
auctions, Phillips
with its 20th Century Sale and Christie's
with its Impressionist and Modern sale, that pushed the fall
auction week to near completion
with surprisingly potent results, including a new
auction record for both Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky.
Aside from the
record sales Ligon registered at the Nov. 11
auction, interest in lots by black artists so far this week has been fairly tepid to average,
with most works selling safely within estimates.
Considering the past several outings for the
auction houses in London and New York, where only a handful of buyers were reportedly keeping the market afloat, this week's sales hit a different note entirely,
with ample phone bids that saw one major
auction record fall
with Constantin Brancusi's La Muse Endormie demolishing expectations at over $ 57 million, and marquee lots performing quite well over the course of the evening.
With an estimate of $ 16 - 20 million, the painting is positioned to realize a new world
auction record for the artist.
AUCTION Six artist
records emerged at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Oct. 7 in London, including an artist
record for «Walking
with Vito,» a 2008 painting by Los Angeles - based Henry Taylor, which sold for $ 173,990 (including fees).
A new
auction record was also set for YVONNE THOMAS,
with her abstract expressionist canvas, Still Life, circa 1958, achieving $ 26,000, well above the pre-sale estimate of $ 9,000.
That's what happened
with Roy Lichtenstein's «Nurse,» which was purchased in November at Christie's for $ 95.4 million — an
auction record for the artist that was 70 percent higher than the previous high two years earlier.
Pablo Picasso's painting Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie - Thérèse Walter), 1937, broke an
auction record when it sold at Sotheby's in London on February 28, 2018 for # 49.8 or around $ 69.4 million
with fees, reported Sotheby's.
Presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the exhibition coincides
with a number of other notable moments for Taylor, including his work gracing the March cover of Art in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist
record at
auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this month.
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.»
The website offers extensive biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, along
with international artists»
auction records and images.
This includes totals from the Swann sale of the collection of writer Maya Angelou, which set a new
auction records for artist Faith Ringgold
with the sale of her work Maya's Quilt of Life for $ 461,000, which came close to doubling its pre-sale estimate, and John Biggers» Kumasi Market, which fetched $ 389,000.