Sentences with phrase «work come to auction»

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Another work of art from the collection a Massachusetts museum that came under intense criticism for deciding to sell multiple works in an effort to stay open has sold at auction.

The sale came as part of a themed auction called «Bound to Fail,» a selection of 39 works of modern and contemporary art exploring the idea of commercial failure and risk - taking to expand the boundaries of art.

Maier's massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago's Northwest Side.

Pete and his wife Heather Dolin have been supporters of SASF for years and really enjoy coming to the Raining Cats and Dogs auction year after year and supporting the work of the foundation to benefit the cats, dogs and critters of the Seattle Animal Shelter.

For instance some loot box systems do allow for players to work towards acquiring what they want by buying / selling from a user marketplace using in - game currency, Madden's Ultimate Team model with their auction house comes to mind.

Steve is an important work by the artist, and only the second of his «white on white» series of paintings to come to auction.

ONLY THREE WORKS by Njideka Akunyili Crosby have come to auction and they have all been record breakers.

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.

Some of the UK's leading contemporary artists have come together to donate works to an online auction to benefit the people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, and the lots will be online at Artsy.net from July 18 — August 1 2017.

What work have you not seen come to market that you would love to get your hands on for the auction?

At the fair, showing at the gallery of his late son (who passed away in 2010), are two of these recent paintings — a rare opportunity to collect an artist whose truly first - rate work hardly ever comes up at auction.

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.

The forthcoming «The Shape of Things to Come: African - American Fine Art» auction follows «Points of Departure: Postwar African - American Fine Art» (October 2013) and «Shadows Uplifted: The Rise of African - American Fine Art,» which focused on Harlem Renaissance and WPA - era works (February 2014).

The work is the first non-sculpture work by the artist to come to auction, and another work by the artist, a sculpture made of black marble titled Recognition, was also a top seller for $ 125,000.

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.»

When Damien Hirst's first spot painting came up for sale in 1996 — the first of his works to reach auction — many commentators and journalists wondered out loud if this was the start of a new era.

Thom Pegg describes the painting «Just Business» by Walter W. Ellison as the Georgia - born, Chicago artist's most important work to come to auction.

Pegg describes Lot 506, «Just Business» by Walter Ellison (1900 - 1977) as the Georgia - born, Chicago artist's most important work to come to auction.

The Polke is matched by a Christopher Wool painting also estimated at $ 20m that is the family's second major work by the artist to come to the auction block.

The galleries have also started encouraging buyers who may want to resell a purchase to come to them help broker a deal privately — rather than take the work to auction.

It was at this time — the early to mid-Nineties — that Saville produced many of her most significant works, including The Bride and Cindy, both of which come to auction at Christie's this autumn.

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.

Angel Otero had his first work ever to come up at auction in the same sale.

A dedicated auction of work by the American painter Wayne Thiebaud, from Prints to Works on Paper, all coming from his Private Studio will take place on September 29 in New York at Christies.

Leading the selection is one of the most important works to come to the auction market by David Hockney, Beverly Hills Housewife, (estimate: $ 7 - 10 million), 1966 - 1967.

Colin Gleadell spies the works from Charles Saatchi's legendary Sensation exhibition that are coming to auction in London, including two works by the Chapman brothers and a very large work by Glenn Brown based upon a Dali painting of Christ:

As previously reported here, only three works by Akunyili Crosby have come to auction and they have all been record breakers, each exponentially surpassing the price reached by the previous lot.

The artist's Portrait of a Boy, oil on canvas, 1938, one of Lee - Smith's earliest works to come to auction, sold for $ 42,500.

This caused a stir not only because the plate - painting, Notre Dame (1979) doubled its $ 50,000 high estimate, selling for $ 93,500; nor because it was significantly more expensive than Schnabel's primary market prices (which were between $ 25,000 and $ 60,000); nor because this was almost ten times the price of work by Schnabel's peers (which cost around $ 10,000 at the time); but also because it was so rare for such recent work to come to auction in the first place.

At the higher end, however, Christie's and Sotheby's have included and sold works by significant African American artists in their American paintings auctions, including: Jacob Lawrence's 1947 tempera on board «The Builders» ($ 2,504,000, estimate $ 400,000 - $ 600,000) at Christie's in 2007, Romare Bearden's 1975 collage and mixed media on board «Manhattan Suite» ($ 240,000, estimate $ 30,000 - $ 40,000) at Sotheby's in 2007, Robert Scott Duncanson's 1852 oil «The Garden of Eden» ($ 343,500, estimate $ 300,000 - 500,000) at Christie's in 2003, and Henry Ossawa Tanner's 1924 - 7 painting «Nicodemus Coming to Christ» ($ 541,000, estimate $ 500,000 - $ 700,000) at Christie's in 2008.

The success of the Day Auction comes down to presenting and curating interesting sales, providing quality works at accessible prices — both from established names and younger artists - with an enormous amount of material fresh to the market, as highlighted by the fantastic success of a previously unseen Martin Kippenberger painting.»

What's more, constituting the most significant work by Brown ever to come to auction, The Tragic Conversion of Salvador Dalí (After John Martin) not only stands at the very apotheosis of the artist's extraordinary corpus of monumental sci - fi panoramas but also ranks as perhaps the most magnificent work of Glenn Brown's entire creation.

2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.

After taking stock of last month's contemporary auctions, anyone could look to the market of London - born Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and reasonably conclude that her work has crossed over, in market terms, from «up and coming» to something more significant.

On the heels of that opening, a work by Owens, who was born in 1970, came to auction at Sotheby's postwar and contemporary evening sale with a high estimate of $ 300,000 and was bought for nearly twice that amount, selling, with a premium, for $ 1.755 million.

Isabelle Paagman, the European head of private sales at Sotheby's, says a series of successful results at auction has led Sotheby's to be more proactive when it comes to sourcing and selling works by women.

Museum shows are no guarantee that an artist's work will take off; in the year 2012, when Taylor had a solo show at MoMA PS1 in New York, not a single one of his paintings came to auction, according to Artnet.

Although Georgia O'Keeffe broke the record for a price at auction by a woman artist, she still does not come close to the latest record - setting work by a male artist.

If the house expected the Warhol to smash his previous auction record of $ 71.7 million, the Cy Twombly record price of $ 21.7 million for Poems to the Sea (1959), an abstract, 24 - part multimedium work on paper, came as a bit more of a surprise.

It would be a serious oversight, however — as the work coming up for sale in this forthcoming auction amply demonstrates — to believe that representational portraits, still life and landscape painting had ceased to be produced.

A group of 21 works, estimated at $ 1.2 m - $ 1.7 m, from the Manhattan home of the legendary postwar critic Clement Greenberg and his wife, Jenny, come to auction at Christie's in New York on May 11.

Two of the great surprises of the day came in the form of Edward Ruscha's bold Golden Words, 1985, which realized $ 334,600 against a $ 70,000 + pre-auction estimate — one of the highest recent prices paid for a work on paper by the artist — while the bidding on Jack Goldstein's acrylic on canvas Untitled, 1983 exploded much the same as the subject matter of the painting itself, finishing at almost seven times the pre-auction estimate of $ 30,000 + to realize $ 203,150, and establishing a new world record at auction for the painter.

Swann: This drawing was found in a portfolio of drawings and examples of artworks by Loïs Mailou Jones» students from Howard University... This illustration is a very scarce work from Elizabeth Catlett's time as a college student, and is the earliest artwork by the artist to come to auction.

For example, there have only been three works by Kerry James Marshall, the subject of a brilliant and critically acclaimed recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to come to auction since 2009.

The kind of work that might galvanize the market simply hasn't come to auction.

There is the overnight accumulation of fortunes, as when Charles sold work for millions of pounds» profit at auction; and there's a climactic come - uppance — but we'll come back to that.

While Artnet's ongoing online auction offerings span centuries and come from all over the globe, their strong Middle Eastern Contemporary collection is a convenient way to purchase prints and other works on paper from the region, including blue - chip artists such as Mona Hatoum, Hassan Massoudy, Shirin Neshat and Pooya Aryanpour.

Other notable prices in the sale came for works in the Saatchi collection by American artists who are relative newcomers to auction.

A selection of 38 images from The Little Screens — the largest group ever to come to auction and a far greater number than appear on Lee Friedlander's gallerist, the Fraenkel Gallery's website, which otherwise carries a substantial cross-section of the photographer's work — are included in the sale and viewing exhibition.

It is the first work valued at more than $ 20 million to have come to auction since Freud's death at 88 in July 2011, according to Artnet.