Die Helfer by Neo Rauch sells for $980,378
Posted on Mar 7 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
The oil painting by Neo Rauch titled “Die Helfer” sold during Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction on February 12 for £623,650 ($980,378), over 2 times the pre-auction estimate.
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Two pieces of Tyeb Mehta sell at Christie’s South Asian and Modern Art auction in the million dollar range
Posted on Sep 27 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Two paintings of Tyeb Mehta were bought in the million dollar range at Christie’s South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art event in New York on September 16.
Mahishasura – sold for $1,280,900
Two Figures – sold for $926,500
A sad actuality of this event is Tyeb Mehta recent passing on July 2, 2009. You can learn more about him on Wikipedia or through this editorial of the New York Times
“Ripley Street Ridge” by Californian painter Wayne Thiebaud sells for $1,022,500
Posted on May 21 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Wayne Thiebaud’s painting titled “Ripley Street Ridge” was bought for $1,022,500 during Christie’s Post-War And Contemporary Art auction in New York on May 14. I for one love this painting a lot. As the lot note describes it well, Thiebaud captures something very uniquely Californian so well on this painting. And it’s more than the obvious, the landscape and lights.
Eshgh (Love) by Farhad Moshiri sells for $1,048,000 in Dubai
Posted on May 2 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Iranian artist, Farhad Moshiri’s painting “Eshgh (Love)” was sold for $1,048,000 during Bonhams “Modern & Contemporary Arab, Iranian, Indian & Pakistani Art” auction in Dubai.
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Contemporary art million-dollar sales: Warhol, Fanzhi, Dubuffet
Posted on Feb 20 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Recent million dollar contemporary art sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s
As usual, the competing auction houses were running similar events around the same time. February 5, London, New Bond Street and February 11, London, King Street respectively.
Mao and Two Marilyns
Posted on Oct 20 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Two Andy Warhol pieces went for over one million dollars yesterday in London at Christie’s “Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale”
“Mao” – £657,250 ($1,140,986)
“Two Marylins” – £3,737,250 ($6,487,865)
Pigs might fly – second day of Damien Hirst’s auction
Posted on Sep 17 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
The second day of the Damien Hirst’s auction fetched another stunning £40,919,700 ($73,409,941).
Pigs Might Fly – 541,250 GBP ($971,002)
Bill With Shark – sold for 313,250 GBP ($561,970)
Oil on canvas, donated to the artist by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
It is sold on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Moments of weakness – 690,850 GBP ($1,234,963)
3 Subodh Gupta works sell in New York for around $1M
Posted on Sep 16 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Three works of Subodh Gupta sold today for around one million dollars at the Rockefeller Plaza during the second day of Christie’s Asian Art Week auction titled “South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art”
Steal 2 – sold for $1,166,500
Miter – sold for $1,022,500
Untitled – sold for $962,500
Other notable million-dollar sales include: Maqbool Fida Husain’s “Ritual” for $1,022,500 and Tyeb Mehta’s “Untitled (Yellow Heads)” for $902,500
Untitled Film Still #13 by Cindy Sherman ($902,500)
Posted on Sep 11 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Cindy Sharman’s “Untitled Film Still #13″ was sold yesterday for $902,500 in New York.
More info about the sale event at Christie’s
Or read “Sherman’s Mass Appeal…” by Barbara L. Miller.
Mao by Andy Warhol sold for $1,078,712
Posted on Jul 3 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Andy Warhol’s work titled “Mao” was sold in London on June 30 within the “Post war and contemporary art” auction for £541,250 ($1,078,712)
The evening’s highest price was paid for Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for Self-Portrait”, a stunning £17,289,250 ($34,457,486)
As always at Christie’s modern art auctions, there were many great artworks bought, including Subodth Gupta’s “Dubai to Calcutta #19″ work for £313,250 ($624,307); pictured below:
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