Vasilii Shukhaev’s painting – A Finnish Village Roofs – sells for $1,116,414
Posted on Jun 19 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Vasilii Shukhaev’s painting – The Finnish Village – was sold for £690,850 ($1,116,414) in London during the “Russian art” auction event by Christie’s
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Turtleneck by Andrew Wyeth
Posted on Jan 16 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
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American realist painter Andrew Wyeth died today at age 91. He was considered to be one of the greatest contemporary painters in the US. In memory of Wyeth, see below his painting titled “Turtleneck”, which sold in 2007 for $1,105,000 |
Turtleneck – Andrew Wyeth – sold at Sotheby’s
The Shelby auction is live
Posted on Dec 4 - Filed Under Cars | View Comments
The heat is on: The Shelby auction we wrote about earlier is live and will end on Dec 12 at 5 PM PST. There is no bid just yet, probably because it requires pre-approval and serious buyers will hold on with their bids until the end. We still believe that the auction will fetch around $500,000. What’s your bet on the winning bid?
You can track the auction with the handy widget below:
Shelby Black Hornet auction in December
Posted on Nov 24 - Filed Under Cars | View Comments
The 1968 Shelby EXP500 CSS “Black Hornet” from Carroll Shelby’s personal collection will be on the auction block on December 2. The auction is sponsored by Restoration Hardware and will be hosted by eBay. Most of the proceeding will benefit Carroll Shelby’s Children’s Foundation(tm), a non-profit helping children with heart and kidney disorders.
About the car:
“Created under the direction of racing legend Carroll Shelby, the Shelby EXP500 CSS “Black Hornet” pays tribute to its chrome and green prototype, the Shelby Green Hornet, and is the only approved reproduction. Like its predecessor, the “Black Hornet” sports the famous scoops and stripes, powered by a Cobra Jet 428 V8 engine with a heart-pounding 335 horsepower. The car began life as a vintage 1968 Mustang, and was transformed into an authentic Shelby muscle car worthy of inclusion in the Shelby Worldwide Registry.”
Bidding will start at $100,000 and the auction will be open for bidding from December 2 through 12.
We think that the Shelby auction will fetch $500,000 easily. But because the car is from Carroll Shelby’s personal collection and due its uniqueness, it may very well go over that. We’ll track the auction ongoing and post the results on the 12th.
What’s your estimate on the final hammer price?
Restoration Hardware’s auction page
Damien Hirst’s auction takes in over £70 million ($125,000,000)
Posted on Sep 15 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
No kidding. This is one of the highest, if not THE highest amount paid for the works of one artist at a single auction event. Ever. I list a few works, which were sold for around a million dollars, and of course the animals. For the complete list, head over to the Sotheby’s website.
Strawberries and cream – sold for £541,250 ($967,917)
Landscape and memory – sold for £601,250 ($1,075,215)
The Tree Of Life – sold for £601,250 ($1,075,215)
The Golden Calf – sold for £10,345,250 ($18,500,410)
The Kingdom – sold for 9,561,250 GBP ($17,098,383)
The Black Sheep With The Golden Horn – sold for 2,617,250 GBP ($4,680,428)
About Damien Hirst (source Wikipedia):
Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed “Young British Artists” (or YBAs). Hirst dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
Death is a central theme in Hirst’s works. He became famous for a series in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde. His most iconic work is The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine. Its sale in 2004 made him the world’s second most expensive living artist after Jasper Johns. In June 2007, Hirst overtook Johns when his Lullaby Spring sold for £9.65 million at Sotheby’s in London. On 30 August 2007, Hirst outdid his previous sale of Lullaby Spring with For The Love of God which sold for £50 million to an unknown investment group. He is also known for “spin paintings,” made on a spinning circular surface, and “spot paintings,” which are rows of randomly-coloured circles.
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