Christie’s Smashes Record With $852.9 Million N.Y. Sale – What A Difference A Day Makes!
Christie’s Smashes Record With $852.9 Million N.Y. Sale– here is more coverage of the record breaking sale at Christie’s. The action, and results, were far better than the sale Sotheby’s held the night before — $852.9M (93.8% sell-through rate) vs. … More…
Christie’s Sells Record $852.9 Million of Contemporary Art
Christie’s Sells Record $852.9 Million of Contemporary Art – Some big prices at the Christie’s Contemporary sale this evening … total exceeded $850M (a record) … crushed the competition. Warhol’s Triple Elvis — $82M; Four Marlons — $69.6M; Lichtenstein – $21.5M; … More…
Sotheby’s $343 Million Sale Led by Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’
Sotheby’s $343 Million Sale Led by Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’– it is interesting to read this writers opinion on the sale. I watched about half of the sale and can tell you that overall, the bidding was slow and it took … More…
Painting of the Day (AVAILABLE): Edouard Cortes’s “Porte St. Martin, Winter” #dallasfallshow
Porte St. Martin, Winter. here is a recently acquired painting by the 20th century French artist Edouard Leon Cortes (1882-1969) that we just added to the available online inventory. The painting can be seen this weekend at the Dallas International … More…
Giacometti’s Chariot Leads Sotheby’s $422 Million Sale
Giacometti’s Chariot Leads Sotheby’s $422 Million Sale– then there was a blockbuster sale at Sotheby’s where a Giacometti brought $101M, a Modigliani fetched $70.7M and a Van Gogh made $61.8M. 73 lots were offered, 58 sold and the high end of the … More…
Manet’s ‘Le Printemps’ Leads Christie’s $166 Million Sale
Manet’s ‘Le Printemps’ Leads Christie’s $166 Million Sale – this was a pretty good result considering they offered just 39 works, sold 35 and the pre-sale estimate range was $144.3-$158M. The top lot of this sale — Edouard Manet’s “Le Printemps” which … More…