Auctions
Your pockets might not need to be as deep as François Pinault's or Victor Pinchuk's to get your hands on a genuine Damien Hirst skull. OK, you'll have to forget about the 1,106.18 carats of diamonds encrusting the artist's sparkly "For the Love of God" (2007) and be content with a sketch doodled at the back of a wrestling match poster,...
NEW YORK — The spring contemporary evening auction season in New York ended on solid ground at the boutique-scaled Phillips de Pury & Company, turning in a respectable $86,897,500 total. That figure fell midway between pre-sale expectations of $75.9-110.7 million. Thirty-five of the 44 lots sold for a decent buy-in rate of...
NEW YORK — Trophy hunting for postwar name brands continued to spark the art market at Sotheby’s $266.6-million evening contemporary sale as no less than three paintings easily hurdled the $30 million mark. The tally more than doubled last May’s $128.1 million total as 32 of the 46 lots sold made over one million dollars.Five artist...
SALE: Magnificent JewelryLOCATION: Sotheby's and Christie's GenevaDATE: May 14-15ABOUT: For the jewelry enthusiast out there, Geneva is the place to be next week. Sotheby's will offer the Beau Sancy, a giant 34.98-carat, modified pear double rose cut diamond that boasts a 400-year royal provenance and is expected to fetch CHF 1.85-3.65...
NEW YORK — Powered by a stunning handful of super-trophies, including a sublime and record-eclipsing Mark Rothko masterpiece from 1961, Christie’s delivered a $388,488,000 Postwar and Contemporary at evening sale. The tally zoomed beyond the $236-329 million pre-sale estimate and nicked the May 2007 high water...
SALE: Post-War and Contemporary Evening SalesLOCATION: New YorkDATE: May 8-10ABOUT: Up first in this marathon week of contemporary evening sales is Christie's, which features a solid group of works by blue-chip artists. At the top of the estimates is Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow," an example of the artist's signature large-scale...
NEW YORK — Edvard Munch’s angst-filled masterpiece "The Scream" rocketed to a record $119,922,500 at Sotheby’s Wednesday evening. The 1895 pastel, expected to fetch in excess of $80 million, became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the first to break the $100 million mark.It is one of four versions and the only one...
Melbourne, Australia born artist Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) is the new queen of the Grosvenor school print market after one of her works set a new record for a Grosvenor school print at a Bonhams auction held in London on the 17th of April.A copy of Spowers’ The Gust of Wind, sold as part of Bonhams ‘The Grosvenor School and Avant-Garde...
British artists, sport stars, and TV presenters have rallied to raise funds for The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts, an educational charity dedicated to giving youngsters access to cultural activities, spearheaded by HRH The Prince of Wales.Self-portraits by the likes of Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, Angela de la Cruz,...
NEW YORK — Christie’s launched the spring auction season with a small but potent evening sale that took in $117,086,000, comfortably mid-stream of the $90.5-$130.2 million pre-sale expectation. Better still, 28 of the 31 lots offered sold, making for a trim buy-in rate of 10 percent by lot and four percent by value. Twenty-one...
