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latimes.com
Francis Bacon’s three studies for a self portrait sold for $34.5 million at Christie’s. Jeff Koons’s Balloon Flower Magenta sold for $25.8 million, the highest price Koons has received at auction.
visionsarts.com
Anish Kapoor’s untitled sculpture from 2003 sold for £1.945 million (about $4 million), setting a new auction record for the artist. Subodh Gupta’s untitled 2005 work sold for £6,01,250, while Bharti Kher’s sculpture ‘Misdemeanours’ realized £75,650. The sale total was £94.702 million ($188.854 million), with 11 records achieved across several artists including Antony Gormley, Bridget Riley, Richard Prince, and Anish Kapoor.
fineartpublicity.com
George Condo is named National Artist Award recipient and Mera and Don Rubell receive the Service to the Arts Award at Anderson Ranch Arts Center's 12th Annual Recognition Dinner in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The event occurs July 9, 2008, with a slide talk by Condo on July 8 and a gala program at The Snowmass Club.
artnews.com
Gino Severini’s Danseuse, 1915, led Sotheby’s London Impressionist and Modern sale, achieving a new artist record of £15 million ($29.6 million). Alberto Giacometti’s Trois hommes qui marchent I (1948) sold for £9.4 million ($18.6 million), and Femme nue (Nu debout IV) (1953) brought £657,250 ($1.3 million.）
latimes.com
Jean-Antoine Watteau painting lost for 160 years sold for $24.4 million at a Christie’s London sale. The work, titled La Surprise, was purchased by London dealer Jean-Luc Baroni on behalf of an unidentified collector. Also, three sketches by Francisco Goya, presumed lost for 130 years, sold for $8 million.
lawfuel.com
Art Masterpiece Thief Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Monet & Other Artworks From Monet, Sisley, Brueghel – US Attorney Report - The page reports that French national Bernard Jean Ternus pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport four stolen paintings and to visa fraud, related to a 2007 robbery in Nice that targeted works by Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
reuters.com
Three sketches by Francisco Goya and a painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau were sold at Christie’s. The Watteau work, titled La Surprise, fetched about $24.4 million, a record for a French old master painting at auction, while three Goya drawings from album D, including Down They Come, Repentance, and The Constable Lampinos Stitched Inside a Dead Horse, sold for about $7.9 million in total.
visionsarts.com
Colin Gleadell reports on the Old Master sales in London where prices climbed, including The Misers reaching £2.1 million, three Goya drawings selling for £4 million, Watteau's La Surprise at £12.4 million, Hals’s portrait selling for £7.1 million, Brueghel the Younger selling for £2.5 million, and a Batoni portrait selling for £1.3 million.
indianartnews.visionsarts.com
Raqib Shaw’s Chrysanthemum & Bee sold for £103,250 and Anish Kapoor’s After Marsyas sold for £109,250, both above estimates. Subodh Gupta Untitled (Across Seven Seas) bought for £85,250, and TV Santosh Man Made Famine and the Rats sold for £121,250. Anish Kapoor Untitled sold for £481,250. Rashid Rana’s Veil #6 sold for £325,250, and Basquiat Untitled (1982-83) was sold for £5.081 million on behalf of U2. A group of 12 works from the Helga and Walther Lauffs collection raised £18.983 million. Regional breakdown showed Europe 49%, US 39%, Asia 3%, others 8%.
artinvestment.ru
Brazilian police recovered one of two Picasso etchings stolen from a São Paulo museum. The engraving Painter and model (1963) was found in an attic, wrapped in a plastic bag, with a suspect arrested in connection with the robbery. The work was reported to be in perfect condition. A second stolen print, Minotaur, a drunkard and a woman (1933), remains missing, along with two Brazilian paintings. This follows a prior 1904 Portrait of Suzanne Bloch that was stolen in December 2007 and later found.
artnews.com
Sotheby’s Postwar and contemporary sale in London on July 1 realized £94.7 million ($189 million), the highest European contemporary sale ever and the only sale of the week to near its presale high estimate. The unsold rate was 5 percent. Notable results included Francis Bacon’s Study for Head of George Dyer, 1967 selling for £13.8 million, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (Pecho/Oreja), 1982–83 selling for £5.1 million, and Richard Prince’s Overseas Nurse, 2002 selling for £4.2 million.