El Greco, La Anunciación: Sold €4,358,564
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El Greco, La Anunciación sold for €4,358,564.
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18 headlinesAuction record smashed for Spanish cubist artist Gris
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Juan Gris's Cubist still life Nature Morte a la Nappe a Carreaux sold for £34.8 million at a London sale, smashing the auction record for the Spanish artist. The piece, from 1915, depicts objects on a checked tablecloth and had pre-sale estimates of £12-18 million. The report also notes other top lots and the cancelled sale of 85 Joan Miró works due to a Portuguese legal dispute.
Juan Gris nature morte smashes artist record by 98 percent
paulfrasercollectibles.com
Juan Gris' Nature morte a la nappe a carreaux (1915) sold for £34.8m ($56.6m) at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London, setting a new record for the artist's work at auction. The sale also featured Picasso's Femme au costume turc dans un fauteuil (1955), Mondrian's Composition No. II with Blue and Yellow (1930), and Giacometti's Trois hommes qui marchent I (1951).
Paintings by modern masters Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso fetch record price at auction
smh.com.au
Nature morte à la nappe à carreaux by Juan Gris sold for £35 million, a world record for the artist and for any Cubist work at Christie’s London. Picasso’s Femme au costume turc dans un fauteuil sold for £17 million. The sale's total exceeded £177 million at Christie’s London Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art auction.
Vente record à Londres emmenée par une œuvre de Juan Gris et d’autres chefs-d’œuvre au programme
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Juan Gris, Nature morte à la nappe à carreaux (1915), vendu 34,8 millions de livres (41,8 M d'euros) battant le record mondial pour l’artiste; Picasso, Femme au costume turc dans son fauteuil (1955) vendu 16,88 millions de livres (20,29 M d'euros). D’autres pièces de Le Corbusier, Carlo Carrà et Dorothea Tanning ont aussi établi des records; Magritte et Léger ont aussi des ventes marquantes; Giacometti et Mondrian complètent les résultats, tandis que 85 œuvres de Joan Miró ne seront pas proposées.
The Art Market: Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art auction scores £163.5m
ft.com
The Art Market: Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art auction scores £163.5m reports that Sotheby’s achieved £163.5m in an auction, led by 37 works from Jan Krugier’s private collection and a notable sale of Camille Pissarro’s Le Boulevard Montmartre (1897) at £19.7m. The Pissarro piece exceeded its £7m-£10m estimate, and the sale reflected strong bidding and positive sentiment in the market.
Sotheby’s London breaks record with Pissarro and Van Gogh at auction
economictimes.indiatimes.com
Camille Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre, matinee de printemps (1897) sold for a record £19.9/$32.1 million at Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Sale. Vincent van Gogh's L'Homme est en mer (1889) sold for £16.9 million/$27.5 million in the same sale.
Getty acquires early drawing by Georges Seurat
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Georges Seurat's early drawing Indian Beggar (c. 1878–79) was purchased at auction by the J. Paul Getty Museum from the Krugier collection. The museum emphasizes the work as a pivotal early achievement and notes it complements existing Seurat holdings, including Madame Seurat, the Artist’s Mother; Poplars; and Woman Strolling.
Gerhard Richter Wand (1994) sells for £17.4 million at Sotheby’s London sale
paulfrasercollectibles.com
Gerhard Richter Wand (1994) sold for £17.4m ($28.7m) at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening sale in London, exceeding its £15m ($25m) estimate by 16%. The work is cited as one of Richter’s finest and has appeared in 21 exhibitions, with this being its first auction sale. Cy Twombly record auction also noted in the report.
Francis Bacon work sells for $70 million at Christie’s auction
nytimes.com
Francis Bacon’s Portrait of George Dyer Talking, a 1966 canvas, sold for $70 million at Christie’s in London. The work had previously sold in 2000 for $6.6 million and was sold by David Martinez; the sale contributed to Christie’s total of $206.1 million for the evening. The triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a different Bacon work, had set a record earlier in New York for $142.4 million.
Francis Bacon George Dyer Talking portrait sells for £42.2m to set European record
independent.co.uk
Francis Bacon's George Dyer Talking portrait sold for £42.2 million at Christie's, setting a European auction record. The 6ft tall canvas depicts Bacon's former lover George Dyer and surpassed the pre-sale estimate of around £28 million. Damien Hirst's Mickey sculpture sold for £902,500 as part of the same Christie’s Post War And Contemporary Art auction.
The Art Market safe bets vs rising stars
ft.com
Gerhard Richter’s ‘Abstraktes Bild 776-1’ (1992) is noted, with a sale led by Phillips’ £10.9m sale and a Lucien Smith painting selling for £194,500, amid discussions of rising stars like Lucien Smith and Oscar Murillo and blue-chip names such as Warhol, Bacon, Basquiat, Freud and Fontana.
Gerhard Richter and Cy Twombly top auction block at Sotheby’s
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Gerhard Richter Wand (Wall), 1994 sold for £17.4 million ($29.2 million) and Cy Twombly Untitled (Rome), 1964 set an artist record, as paintings by Gerhard Richter and Cy Twombly led Sotheby’s Contemporary evening sale in London on February 12, with total sales near £88 million ($147.3 million).
Banksy work Kissing Coppers auctioned for US$575,000 in Miami
malaymail.com
Banksy created Kissing Coppers, a black-and-white stencil of two British police officers kissing, was sold for US$575,000 at a Miami auction. The sale was conducted by Fine Art Auctions Miami and the piece was purchased by an anonymous telephone bidder.
Explosive fine art prices: paying £42m for Francis Bacon's lover
ibtimes.co.uk
Francis Bacon's Portrait of George Dyer Talking sold for £42m at Christie's post-war and contemporary auction in London, setting a record for a single-panel Bacon. The painting contributed about a third of Christie's total auction sales of £124m that night. Two Christie's specialists competed via phone bidding on behalf of clients, with the winner an anonymous US buyer.
Banksy’s ‘Kissing Coppers’ auctioned for US$575,000
taipeitimes.com
Banksy’s Kissing Coppers, a black-and-white stencil of two police officers kissing, sold for US$575,000 at a Miami auction. The piece was purchased by an anonymous telephone bidder and originated from the Prince Albert Pub in Brighton, England, in 2005. It was auctioned along with Bandaged Heart Balloon and Crazy Horse Car Door as part of Banksy’s works from a month-long street residency in New York City.
The picture (blue star) by Joan Miró goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London setting a new record
bashny.net
Joan Miró's painting The picture (blue star) sold at Sotheby’s in London for 23.6 million pounds, surpassing its estimate and setting a new record for the artist. The work, created in 1927 and part of Miró's blue-dominated dream cycle, was previously sold for 11.6 million euros in Paris in 2007. The sale marks the most expensive artwork auctioned by Sotheby’s in the year.
Contemporary Chinese Ink Moves Beyond a Single Tradition
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s surveys artists redefining Chinese ink practice through new materials, formats and relationships to historical painting.