A Christie’s employee poses for a photograph with artist Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait” at Christie’s auction house. The piece, which was estimated to fetch in excess of $30 million (18.4million pounds), sold for $38,442,500 in New York on May 11, 2011. The market for important works by Andy Warhol, the reigning king of Pop, continued to [...]
Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait” is pictured in this undated handout photo. The Andy Warhol self-portrait purchased in 1963 for $1,600 on an installment plan is poised to fetch $30 million or more when it hits the auction block at Christie’s in May. The four-panel acrylic silkscreen depicting the pop artist wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, [...]
A Christie’s employee poses with a 1905 painting ‘Bateaux a Collioure’ by Andre Derain on display at the auction house in London. The painting, last seen in public in 1965, sold at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Feb. 9 for £5,865,250 ($9,460,648). A painting by Paul Gauguin, billed as the top lot at [...]
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – 1669 Amsterdam), Portrait of a man with arms akimbo, 1658. Oil on canvas, 42.25 x 34.25 in. A Rembrandt portrait, one of the last works from the Dutch master’s late career still in private hands, will be offered for sale at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair later this [...]
Two North Italian style tables with opposing winged griffins reputedly sold for a fraction of their construction price. Christie’s will announce record global sales of £3.2 billion ($5 billion) for 2010 next month. The figure includes both auction sales and private sales, and just nudges ahead of the company’s previous high of £3.1 billion in [...]
The cover page of the auction book for U.S photographer Richard Avedon art sale is presented at Christie’s auction house in Paris, Thursday Nov.18, 2010. More than 60 photographs for the Avedon Foundation will be auctioned next Saturday. AP Photo A model in a silk Dior gown, posing with elephants. The psychedelically colored faces of [...]
People stand near the Alexei Bogoliubov painting “On the Eve of the Celebration, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice”. Sotheby’s autumn 2010 auctions of Russian Art in New York brought a total of $14,397,064. The day began with an inaugural sale of Important Russian Paintings that achieved $10.6 million and set several new auction records. The [...]