Some/one by Do-Ho Suh sells for £493,250 ($810,410)
Posted on Jul 12 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Made of stainless steel military dog tags Some/one by Do-Ho Suh sells for £493,250 ($810,410) at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Other top sellers include “Untitled” by Rudolf Stingel at £349,250 ($573,818) and “O Brinquedo” by Beatriz Milhazes at £277,250 ($455,522)
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1972 Maserati Boomerang Concept Prototype
Posted on Feb 19 - Filed Under Cars | View Comments
Christie’s Lot #40, Paris, France, 2/12/2005 – sold for €721,750
Degas’s “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” to be sold by Sotheby’s
Posted on Jan 13 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
Sotheby’s will have an amazing auction coming up on Feb 3, 2009 in London during which Degas’s most important and iconic sculpture, the “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” will be on the block with an estimated selling price of £9 – £12 million
Below is Sotheby’s press release:
LONDON, 6 January 2009 – Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that it is to offer Petite danseuse de quatorze ans in its next sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on the 3rd of February 2009. Estimated at £9 – 12 million, Petite danseuse de quatorze ans is one of the most ambitious and iconic of Degas’s works and a groundbreaking sculpture from the Impressionist period. The bronze cast to be offered at Sotheby’s is one of only a handful of casts remaining in private hands. This sale therefore represents a rare opportunity to acquire an icon of Impressionist art.
Wittelsbach diamond breaks world records
Posted on Dec 13 - Filed Under Jewelry | View Comments
During Christie’s “Jewels: The London Sale” event on December 10, the historic Wittelsbach diamond was sold for a astonishing £16,393,250 ($24,311,191) and became the most expensive diamond and most expensive jewelry ever sold at an auction.
According to Christie’s, the 35.56ct diamond (sometimes just referred as the Wittelsbach) was purchased by the leading international jeweller Laurence Graff, bidding against Aleks Paul of Essex Global Trading.
The Greek Sale by Sotheby’s
Posted on Nov 13 - Filed Under Arts | View Comments
“The Arrival of Karaiskakis at Faliro” by Constantinos Volanakis found a new owner in London for 1,609,250 GBP
($ 2,386,034)
According to Sotheby’s catalogue note: “Never before offered at auction, The Arrival of Karaiskakis at Faliro, is the most important work by the artist to appear on the international art market. Most historical works by Volanakis of this scale and importance are in museums, institutions and corporate collections, making this painting one of the few examples still in private hands.
This monumental scene from the Greek War of Independence celebrates the arrival in 1827 of the fledgling Greek navy and one of its commanders, Georgios Karaiskakis, on the shores of Faliro, near Piraeus, in preparation for the campaign to liberate Athens, under siege from Ottoman forces. Altogether some ten thousand Greek soldiers convened at Piraeus. The fleet was made up of vessels assembled by various islands and forces under the command of Karaiskakis and the English philhellene, Lord Cochrane, the first ships landing in Piraeus on 5 February 1827. Karaiskakis was mortally wounded during the ensuing confrontation on the open plain between Piraeus and Athens, and died on 23 April 1827, going down in Greek history as one of the greatest heroes of the war.”
More about Constantinos Volanakis on Wikipedia
McLaren F1 breaks record at the Automobiles of London auction
Posted on Oct 30 - Filed Under Cars | View Comments
A month ago, we wrote about the upcoming McLaren F1 auction to be held on Oct 29 by RM Auctions in association with Sotheby’s. Partial, unconfirmed results are in through Ultimatecarpage.com
The McLaren F1 auction sets record with the £2,530,000 (~$4,194,234) hammer price
Other high value sales at the same event include:
1965 Ferrari 250 LM Berlinetta – £2,255,000 (~$3,738,339)
1959 Ferrari 250 GT Tour de France – £2,255,000 (~$3,738,339)
1938 Bugatti Type 57C Atalante – £660,000 (~$1,094,148)
Both Sotheby’s and RM Auctions removed the auction details from their websites. I assume only for the time being until they record the results. Once we have confirmed information from either of them, we’ll update this post.
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)
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.
McLaren F1 on the auction block on October 29
Posted on Sep 14 - Filed Under Cars | View Comments
A 1997 McLaren F1 will be listed for sale during the “Automobiles of London” auction by RM Auctions on October 29. The 627 bhp F1 had held the record of the fastest production car for over a decade with the top speed of 243 miles per hour (391 km per hour). This 1997 McLaren has a pre-auction estimate price of 1,100,000 GBP-1,400,000 GBP ($1,971,310 – $2,508,940)
Follow the auction on the RM Auctions site
Other noteable cars to be sold at the same event are the 1963 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder (estimate 2,500,000 GBP-2,800,000 GBP) and the 1965 Ferrari 250 LM Berlinetta (estimate 2,500,000 GBP-2,800,000 GBP)
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