Sentences with phrase «works by living artists sold»

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.

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When Pace sold the work to the Whitney Museum in 1980 for $ 1 million, the painting set a record for the priciest artwork ever sold by a living artist.

In 1989, her work Oozewald was sold for $ 6.6 million, making it the highest priced artwork ever sold by a living female artist.

(Think works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as Jasper Johns's «Three Flags,» which the Pace sold to the Whitney Museum in 1980 for $ 1 million — the most a painting by a living artist had ever been sold for at the time.)

The artist moved to Mexico in the late 1980s and has lived in Europe since 1994, skirting these legal and cultural quagmires by scrubbing his work of Native American subject matter and selling internationally.

The most valuable two works in the sale were by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, whose tapestry of shimmering bottlecaps, Earth Developing More Roots from 2011, sold for # 728,750 ($ 941,691), and the South African artist Irma Stern, whose still life of Sunflowers from 1942 made # 416,750 ($ 538,524).

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.

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.

Bonhams expert Giles Peppiatt said works by Africa's best - known living artists typically sell for less than $ 150,000, or the ballpark asking price at auction for works by much younger, less time - tested artists like New York art star Dan Colen.

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.»

Church eventually sold it for $ 10,000, at that time the highest price ever paid for a work by a living American artist.

A geometric abstraction by Detroit - born Loving who lived and worked in New York, and a colorful abstraction from a series of «poured paintings» by Bowling, a Guyana - born British artist, each sold for $ 161,000 (including fees).

His works quickly began to sell and, liberated by the knowledge that he could make a living as an artist, he never looked back.

Among the works by living artists, Cady Noland's 1989 silhouette - shaped screen print of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, «Bluewald,» sold to a client of Mr. Gorvy for $ 9.8 million, an auction high for the artist.

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.

A giant 1994 Abstraktes Bild made headlines when it was sold by Eric Clapton for $ 34 million in 2012, then the highest price for a work by a living artist.

Amid murmurs that the economic crisis was hurting midmarket galleries — an instance of art imitating life, with talk of the 1 percent and a dying middle class — the gallery was doing well, usually finding collectors for two - thirds of the works in each of its exhibitions and selling out the gallery's swan - song presentation of paintings by the Iranian - born artist Marjane Satrapi.

Before moving to Johannesburg in 2002, she lived in New York where she worked for the artist management company Mixed Greens (mixedgreens.com) promoting, curating and selling art by emerging visual artists.

A redesigned, more spacious Frieze found buyers for new works by younger living artists priced in the $ 20,000 to $ 200,000 range, its unique selling point for the past 11 years.

Other works included Julie Mehretu's Rising Down, which sold for $ 3 million, and Icons of the Nile by Chant Avedissian, which set a record for a living Arab artist at $ 1.56 million.

[11] In 1988, Johns» False Start was sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $ 17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for a work by a living artist at auction, and the second highest price paid for an artwork at auction in the U.S. [32] In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago - based hedge fund Citadel LLC) bought False Start (1959) from David Geffen [33] for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.

In 2008 one of her works sold for $ 5.8 m at auction, then the second - highest price for a work by a living female artist.

The Whitney Museum has a policy not to sell artwork by a living artist in case it would negatively impact the artist's career, but it has a policy in which works can be acquired through exchanges.

The auction also features works by acclaimed living artists such as Stephen Scott Young, whose Hibiscus Dress (Little Cindy), 2009, realized $ 68,500 and Final Study for Mr. Buck's Funeral, 2010, sold for $ 62,500.

Founded by Fountain House in 2000 as a not - for - profit exhibition space for its member - artists living and working with mental illness, the Gallery sells original artworks and collaborates with a wide network of artists, curators and cultural institutions.

When it's an utterly splendid, signature black - and - white piece by Christopher Wool, one of the top - five most expensive living painters — his work regularly sells for the ten of millions of dollars at auction — and among the most influential artists anywhere today.

His works sold for substantial sums of money, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist.

Christie's rarely sold works by living artists at the end of the 20th century, but now the vast majority in terms of value at auction is the result of new artists.

His orange «Balloon Dog» became the most expensive work sold by a living artist when it was auctioned for $ 58 million at Christie's last fall.