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miragenews.com
The piece discusses Gustave Courbet, born 10 June 1819, and an exhibition at Ornans' Courbet Museum titled "Yan Pei-Ming face a Courbet". It notes Courbet’s auction record of $15.3 million for Reclining Nude (1862) at Christie's New York in 2015 and describes the typical market for his works, mainly small landscapes and oil-on-canvas pieces mostly under $200,000.
press.christies.com
The Christie’s press release reports that Christie’s New York design auction totaled $14,038,250, selling 80% by lot and 96% by value. The top lot was an Important Cabinet by Eugène Printz and Jean Dunand, which sold for $5,496,000, setting a new record for the collaboration or independent design by these artists.
artnews.com
Alice Walton was reported as the buyer of Robert Rauschenberg’s Buffalo II (1964), which sold for $88.8 million at Christie’s in New York, surpassing his prior record. The sale price hammer was $78 million after bidding with Walton reportedly involved via Sara Friedlander.
news.artnet.com
The article discusses the missing Salvator Mundi and Kenny Schachter’s information about its possible whereabouts, citing sources and references to Wikipedia’s changing description of the work. It notes the sale at Christie’s for $450 million to an intermediary for Saudi Arabia and references Ben Lewis’s book The Last Leonardo.
prnewswire.com
The article discusses a major Caravaggio painting (Judith and Holofernes) auctioned in Toulouse for the first half of 2019, with mention of Monet, Bacon, and Basquiat in the context of top-tier blue-chip sales. Amounts cited include a potential price range for the Caravaggio between $115 million and $170 million.
artforum.com
The Broad in Los Angeles has purchased Mark Bradford’s Deep Blue, 2018, and David Hammons’s African American Flag, 1990. Bradford’s Deep Blue is a fifty-foot-wide painting depicting Los Angeles, with mounds of paint referencing the 1965 Watts Rebellion; Hammons’s African American Flag mimics the U.S. flag but uses Pan-African flag colors to evoke double consciousness.
news.artnet.com
Kenny Schachter reveals that Pierre Chen is the guarantor of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi and discusses the Leonardo scoop and Art Basel’s major deals. The piece references Chen, his daughter Jasmine Chen, and connections to Sotheby’s and George Condo/Picasso exhibitions in Hong Kong.
news.artnet.com
The article discusses Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern sale, led by a Monet and several restituted treasures, with a total of £98.9 million ($124 million) from 25 lots and higher-value highlights including Monet and Pissarro works. It compares Sotheby’s performance to Christie’s, noting more top lots and guarantees on Sotheby’s side.
standard.co.uk
Monet’s 1908 painting Nympheas sold for £23.7 million at Sotheby’s in London. The sale, part of a modernist and Impressionist auction that totaled £99 million, also included Modigliani’s portrait of an anonymous young man which sold for £18.4 million.
sothebys.com
Titian’s masterworks, including Titian’s Milia and their daughter Emilia and Tintoretto’s The Angel Foretelling Saint Catherine of Alexandria of Her Martyrdom, are highlighted as part of the From Titian to Rubens exhibition in Venice. The show runs from 5 September 2019 to 1 March 2020 at Palazzo Ducale, organized by MUVE in collaboration with Rubenshuis and featuring works from Flemish collections and Marnix Neerman’s private holdings.
artnews.com
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night), 1984, sold for £8.38 million ($10.7 million) at Christie’s London postwar and contemporary evening sale. The sale grossed £45.2 million ($57.6 million) across 32 lots, with a 94 percent sell-through; top lot was Jean Dubuffet’s Cérémonie, which brought £8.72 million ($11.1 million). Other notable outcomes included a new auction record for Tschabalala Self with Out of Body (2015) at £370,000 ($469,500), and strong results for Cecily Brown and Jonas Wood.
theartnewspaper.com
Judith Beheading Holofernes, an attribution to Caravaggio, is reported as sold in a private sale to a foreign collector. The piece was estimated at €100m-€150m and the buyer’s identity was undisclosed; the purchaser pledged to loan it to an important museum. The painting’s attribution and provenance have been debated, with earlier attribution including Louis Finson.
sothebys.com
Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait, 1975, sold for £16,542,650 at Sotheby’s in London. Jenny Saville’s Shadow Head, 2007-13, sold for £4,184,500. Albert Oehlen’s Selbstportrait Mit Leeren Händen (Self-Portrait With Empty Hands) sold for £5,949,950, setting a new auction record for the artist; another Oehlen work, Untitled (2005), sold for £1.8 million. Wols Vert Strié Noir Rouge, 1946-47, sold for £4,526,200, setting a new Wols record.
theartnewspaper.com
Tschabalala Self's Out of Body (2015) sold for £371,250 (with fees). The sale also featured Jonas Wood's Diet 7Up Frimkess Pot (2016) which sold for £1.3m (£1.6m with fees). The article discusses a lean, contemporary-heavy postwar and contemporary sale at Christie’s London, noting strong demand for fresh material from younger artists and a smaller group of masterworks to drive the market.
sfmoma.org
The announcement lists 11 new acquisitions by 10 artists: Rebecca Belmore, Forrest Bess, Frank Bowling, Leonora Carrington, Lygia Clark, Norman Lewis, Barry McGee, Kay Sage, Alma Thomas and Mickalene Thomas, funded by the sale of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1960). The works broaden SFMOMA’s modern and contemporary holdings and aim to address historical gaps; the acquisitions proceed as part of a new endowment for future acquisitions and will be shown throughout the museum beginning in late August 2019.
news.artnet.com
Mickalene Thomas, Qusuquzah, une très belle négresse 1 (2011) is shown in the page. The article reports that SFMOMA sold a Mark Rothko for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s and used the proceeds to acquire 11 works by 10 artists, including Alma Thomas, Kay Sage, Frank Bowling, Leonora Carrington, Mickalene Thomas, Barry McGee, and Rebecca Belmore. The purchases aim to diversify the collection and address art-historical gaps, with funds partially set aside for future acquisitions and a new endowment fund.
hyperallergic.com
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes (circa 1607) was found in an attic in 2014 and restored; it was sold to a mysterious buyer for an undisclosed sum after a canceled Marc Labarre Auctions sale. Eric Turquin defended its authenticity with a catalogue and website.
artsy.net
Phillips’ 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London, held June 27, 2019, raised £35.9 million ($45.6 million) with fees across 36 lots, achieving an 89% sell-through. The top-performing lots were by women artists: Tschabalala Self’s 2015 work, Marlene Dumas’s Losing (Her Meaning) (1988), and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Leave A Brick Under the Maple (2015). Roy Lichtenstein’s The Conductor (1975) led the sale at £4.2 million ($5.3 million).
nytimes.com
The article discusses a painting titled Judith and Holofernes, attributed to Caravaggio, whose mystery buyer is J. Tomilson Hill. The painting was estimated to sell for at least $110 million in Toulouse, France, but the sale was canceled after it was announced the painting had been sold to an outside-French collector. J. Tomilson Hill, a former Blackstone vice chairman and art collector, is linked to the purchase, and the work may be lent to major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, or the Getty Museum.
artsy.net
Rebecca Belmore, Forrest Bess, Frank Bowling, Leonora Carrington, Norman Lewis, Barry McGee, Kay Sage, Alma Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, and two works by Lygia Clark were acquired with funds from the Rothko sale at Sotheby’s for $50.1 million, of which SFMOMA received $42.8 million.
news.artnet.com
Francis Bacon’s Self Portrait (1975) led Sotheby’s London Postwar sale, selling for £16.5 million ($20.95 million). The auction also featured works by Charline von Heyl, Albert Oehlen, and other artists, and generated £69.6 million ($88.4 million) with five records set and several unsold lots.
news.artnet.com
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been ruled the rightful owner of Pablo Picasso's The Actor (1904–05), with the U.S. Court of Appeals upholding a prior ruling. The family of the painting's former owner, Laurel Zuckerman, claimed it was sold under duress to fund escape from Nazi Germany, but the court found the family waited too long to pursue restitution and that the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act did not apply due to the time elapsed.
news.artnet.com
Billionaire art collector J. Tomilson Hill is identified as the mystery buyer of the disputed Caravaggio work, Judith Beheading Holofernes, found in an attic and previously reported sold at auction. The painting was expected to fetch up to €100–150 million and $114–171 million in Toulouse; Eric Turquin authenticated it and noted the private-sale offer exceeded the starting bid. Hill is associated with the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea and has a history of high-value acquisitions.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s documents the market development behind Sotheby's Hosts Conference on the Art Market During the Second World War. Its account reports that o mark the publication of Emmanuelle Polack’s book, The Art Market Under Occupation , and of the eponymous exhibition at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, Sotheby’s held a conference on Spoliations and the Art Market During Second World War: The Urgent Search for Truth , on 27 June 2019.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s documents the market development behind Lowry, Hepworth and Moore Lead Modern & Post-War British Art Auction. Its account reports that flanagan’s Acrobats , featuring the sculptor’s most celebrated subject, the hare, comes from the collection of the late Pat and Penny Allen – a couple who spent their lives immersed in the London art scene.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s documents the market development behind Sotheby's Launches Auctions Dedicated to Aboriginal Art in New York. Its account reports that inaugural Auction Dedicated to Aboriginal Art at Sotheby's New York Achieves $2.8 Million](https://www.sothebys.com/en/press/inaugural-auction-dedicated-to-aboriginal-art-at-sothebys-new-york-achieves-2-8-million).