Sentences with phrase «work auction record for the artist»

Yves Klein's FC1 (Fire Color 1) sold for $ 36,482,500, setting a work auction record for the artist, at New York, Rockefeller Plaza on 8 May 2012 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.

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A statue of Hitler on his knees was auctioned Sunday for $ 17.2 million, a record for a work by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

Tonight at Christie's sale of 19th - and 20th - century works from the collection of the late Peggy and David Rockefeller, Henri Matisse's Odalisque couchée aux magnolias (1923) went for $ 80.8 million, a record for a work by the artist at auction.

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.

The record for a work by the artist at auction is the $ 1.3 million paid for the oil painting The Valencia Wall, 2006, at Sotheby's in London in July of last year, far surpassing the estimate of $ 686,000 / 881,500.

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.

In 2013, Zeng's painting The Last Supper broke the auction record for the most expensive work by an Asian contemporary artist when it sold for $ 23.3 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

AUCTION An untitled 1989 work by Martin Puryear, composed of red cedar and pine, sells at Christie's New York on May 13 for more than $ 1.8 million (including fees), more than twice the estimate and a record for the artist.

Auction Results: New Records Set for Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Henry Taylor, and Alma Thomas, Compelling Works by El Anatsui Among Many Others by Black Artists Sold Too

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.

In 2012, his untitled black - and - white work from 1957 was sold for $ 36 million, a record price for the artist at auction.

Only two works from this series have come to auction in the last 20 years and each time they established a new record for the artist and a new benchmark for European art.

Originally owned by Carla Panicali for over thirty years, the work set the world auction record for the artist's tagli when it sold to the present owner in 1998.

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.

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.

Perhaps Hammons did go with the buck: In 2013, a record price of $ 8 million for his work, the highest for any living black artist, was set at Phillips New York when he consigned an untitled basketball backboard chandelier to the auction house directly.

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.

Described as «a punch to the solar plexus» by Conor Jordan, Christie's Deputy Chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art, the work realised a world auction record for the artist when it sold for $ 70,062,500 at Christie's in New York in November 2017.

A record price for a work by a living artist at auction was set last night by Germany's Gerhard Richter.

She later transitioned into a strategic role in where she worked on the auction house's Evening Sales of Contemporary Art, which included record - breaking prices for works by artists such as Clyfford Still and Gerhard Richter.

He has twice achieved the record for any photographic work of art at auction, both times by Andreas Gursky and twice achieved the record for any living artist at auction with Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons.

In addition to Monet and Matisse, artist world auction records were set for Diego Rivera (The Rivals, $ 9,762,500, which also established a record for a work of Latin American Art), Eugène Delacroix, Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot, Armand Seguin, Giorgio Morandi, Odilon Redon, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Sheeler, Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Fairfield Porter, Stefan Hirsch, Morris Cole Graves, Elizabeth Strong - Cuevas and Saliba Douaihy.

Her structure Untitled (from the Point as a Set series), is one of the finest examples of works from her Point as a Set series to come to auction, as well as Sonia Gechtoff's (1926 - 2018) Untitled (# 4), Untitled (# 3), Untitled (# 5), 1960, which realized $ 15,000, a new world auction record for the artist.»

This enthusiasm was quickly followed by Jonas Wood's Untitled (MV Landscape)(2008), which established a record - breaking figure of # 542,500 / $ 839,248 / $ 735,630, setting a new artist's record for a work at auction, and by Adrian Ghenie's Pie Fight Interior (2012), which sold for # 446,500 / $ 690,736 / $ 605,454.

At Bonhams» Impressionist & Modern Art Auction in New York on May 12, Seated Old Man set a record for a work on paper by the artist when it sold for $ 425,000, over four times its high estimate.

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.

Six of the first 10 works presented during the evening established auction records for artists including Henry Taylor, Imi Knoebel, Albert Oehlen and Gerald Laing.

Neo Rauch's Nerv then made it a round 10 by selling for # 353,000 / $ 431,366, which is a new world auction record for a work on paper by the artist.

Works by artists new to auction were no less successful: world auction records were also set for pieces by Gianfranco Baruchello (# 68,750) and Ettore Spalletti (# 125,000).

Loic Gouzer, International Specialist declared: With a total of $ 134million and 16 world auction records set for major artists such as Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Peter Doig, On Kawara, Glen Ligon, Adam McEwen, Richard Prince and Thomas Schutte, and, the If I live I see you Tuesday auction convened works by emerging and established artists who largely exceeded all pre-sale estimates.

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.

Cecily Brown's monumental The Sick Leaves, an oil on linen in three parts, was the sixth record to go — the # 1,805,000 / $ 2,205,710 paid for the work passing the previous world auction record for the artist, which had stood since May 2007.

The fourth record of the night went when Lot 9, Jean Dubuffet's Deux Arabes gesticulant (Two gesticulating Arabs) of 1948, sold for # 1,109,000 / $ 1,355,198, a new auction high for a work on paper by the artist.

The market for Arte Povera has grown steadily since 2003, although a breakthrough moment came in February 2014 with Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision, an auction at Christie's in London of the biggest collection of Arte Povera works ever brought to market which saw fifteen artist records set in a single night.

Koons had a good year otherwise, setting an auction record for highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist: $ 58.4 million for «Balloon Dog (Orange).»

Another work celebrating the Rockefellers» love of nature, Shore Birds by Morris Cole Graves, easily surpassed its high estimate to create a new auction record for the artist at $ 408,500.

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.

Two have already been sold by Clapton — in 2012, 809 - 4 changed hands for # 21.3 m, setting a new auction record for the artist and for any work by a living artist at auction.

An auction record for a work by a Southeast Asian artist was set with the sale of a HK$ 58.4 million painting by Indonesian artist S. Sudjojono (1914 - 1986), Sotheby's said.

The record - shattering sale is highest auction price in history for a work by an American artist.

Sotheby's and Christie's both have works from the same series as the record price paid at auction for a Stingel, the copper - plate versions of the Celotex works created during the artist's seminal 2007 Whitney show.

It sold for $ 1,106,000, breaking the world auction record for a work on paper by the artist of $ 770,000 set at Sotheby's May 9, 1990.

Lot 47, «Day Pool with Three Blues (Paper Pool 7),» a 72 - by - 85 1/2 - inch colored, pressed paper pulp by David Hockney (b. 1937), sold for $ 665,750, surpassing the $ 522,378 previous world auction record for a work on paper by this artist.

Lot 60, «Words,» a 24 1/2 - inch square ink on paper mounted on canvas by Agnes Martin (b. 1912), sold for $ 291,750, surpassing the artist's previous auction record of $ 156,500 for a work on paper.

Lot 38, «Achrome,» by Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963), sold for $ 1,015,500, breaking the artist's previous auction record when the same monochrome work of kaolin on burlap was sold for $ 914,442 at Sotheby's London Dec. 9, 1998.

Sotheby's London Contemp Auction Garners $ 116.4 Million — Hitting the middle of its pre-sale estimate, the evening found continued strong demand for Gerhard Richter (with a 1976 photo - realist painting and a 1992 abstraction selling for $ 11.9 million and $ 12.8 million, respectively, though three out of nine works of his offered failed to find buyers) and set an artist record for Adrian Ghenie ($ 189,720 for a 2011 painting of Dr. Mengele).

Mr. Richter holds the auction record for work by a living European artist: In February 2015, one of his enormous abstract oils sold for more than $ 46 million in an auction at Sotheby's London.»

«On the heels of Phillips May Evening Sale, in which Peter Doig's Rosedale set a world auction record for a work by a living British artist, we are delighted to offer the artist's Red House as a star lot this season.

Lot 45, «Falcon,» by Ellsworth Kelly, a 1959 work, sold for $ 1,078,500, breaking the world auction record for the artist of $ 805,500 set at Sotheby's Nov. 1, 1994.

Lot 10, «Autumn Lovers, a 1994 work by John Curren (b. 1962), sold for $ 149,000, a world auction record for the artist.