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The World’s Largest Painting: From Lockdown Project to Auction Record
While the world was in lockdown, Sacha Jafri set to work on an ambitious new project: making the world’s largest painting. Jafri developed the idea while experiencing delays, cancellations, and disappointments caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The artist, who splits his time between Dubai, London, and New York, felt a…
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Artworks by Old Masters and 21st-Century Icons Share the Spotlight in Upcoming Evening Sale
Edvard Munch was an Expressionist painter best known his iconic painting titled The Scream. The Norwegian artist explored the human psyche to create symbolic scenes. Munch’s artworks mainly captured human emotions like love, fear, anxiety, and death. The upcoming Sotheby’s evening sale will feature artworks by Old Masters and 21st-century…
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Artist to Know: Mona Hatoum
Sotheby’s Greets International Women’s Day With Minimalist Chair Sculpture Mona Hatoum’s art often holds a web of contradictions. Her early performance work carried distinct political undertones designed to challenge her audience. Gradually, though, the Palestinian artist moved into abstraction. Hatoum invites the viewer to ask critical questions. “I’m working with…
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Abell Auction Co. hosts Important Fine Art, Antiques and Jewelry Sale on February 21
William Wendt, California Landscape. Estimate: $50,000-70,000. LOS ANGELES, CA.-Abell Auction Co. will host an important fine art, antiques, 20th century design and fine jewelry auction on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021 at 10 a.m. PST. Featuring property from prominent California estates, the online-only sale will offer a 23.73 carat Colombian emerald ring…
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The Private Collection of Pierre Le-Tan Comes to Auction
“Like drawing, I’ve been collecting since I was very young. My apartment is a mess, but it’s filled with all the things—inherited things, bought things, my children’s things— that I love,” said French illustrator Pierre Le-Tan about his private collection. He began collecting at the age of seven, a hobby…
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Two Louise Nevelson Pieces Lead Fine Art Winter Sale at Barridoff Galleries
While looking at Louise Nevelson's works, one onlooker commented on the creativity required “to make something beautiful out of nothing.” Wooden scraps like dowels, spindles, and furniture parts fill stacked boxes of Louise Nevelson’s Sky Cathedral (circa 1958). The sculpture, her first in black, is now hosted by the Museum…
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Property From the Estate of Mrs. Henry Ford II Comes to Auction
A French abstract painter, Olivier Debré (1920 – 1999) was influenced by the works of Pablo Picasso and André Lanskoy. Debré moved to abstraction from figurative painting in 1941 after a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio brought about a change in his style of work. Equally significant was the impact…
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Phillips' Contemporary Art Evening Sale Captures $134.6 Million, Breaks House Records
Several Emerging Artists Set New Benchmarks, Including Amy Sherald, Titus Kaphar, and Matthew Wong Phillips' 20th Century and Contemporary Art evening sale came to a magnificent end on December 7th, 2020, raising a record USD 134.6 million. The figure showed a nearly 25% increase from the same auction last winter…
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Hockney, Basquiat, and Still Headline Contemporary Art Evening Sale
David Hockney's Nichols Canyon is among the highlights of Phillips' upcoming 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale. The painting illustrates Hockney's daily drive from his home atop Nichols Canyon in the Hollywood Hills down to his studio. "I look down on Hollywood," says Hockney about the commute with a…
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World’s First Mixed Reality Artwork from Marina Abramović Comes Under the Christie’s Hammer
In February of 2019, visitors to London’s Serpentine Galleries found themselves face-to-face with a holographic version of Marina Abramović. The Serbian conceptual artist had created her first Mixed Reality (MR) performance to be viewed through a headset. Audience members were able to watch as a digital Abramović walked around an…
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Prints and Multiples
Beginning in the early 1960s, American artist, film director, and producer Andy Warhol became a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He was best-known in his early career for his depictions of Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles. Warhol’s fame grew from there until he died in 1987. Highlighted…
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Christie's announces London Editions Prints & Multiples Online Sales
Banksy, Morons (Sepia), 2007. Estimate: £20,000-30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. LONDON.- London Editions presents three online-only sales dedicated to prints, multiples and editions tracing artistic production from modern to contemporary artists, all of which are open for bidding from 10 September 2020. Prints & Multiples: Modern to Pop (10-22 September…
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American Friends of Museums in Israel Fine Art Online Auction hosted by Artsy September 9-23, 2020
The American Friends of Museums in Israel represents eight exceptional and diverse museums: Design Museum Holon, Haifa City Museum, Haifa Museum of Art, Hermann Struck Museum, Mané-Katz Museum, National Maritime Museum, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, and the Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem. Auction Info60 works…
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LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History
Much of Swann Galleries’ second annual auction highlighting the art, material culture, and history of the LGBTQ+ community contains items from the 20th century. There are also a few lots from the 19th century, including a pair of Oscar Wilde autographs, an albumen print of Wilde, and a portrait of…
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Early Pop Print by Lichtenstein Leads Contemporary Art at Swann
New York—Swann Galleries will offer a sale of Contemporary Art on Thursday, June 25 with a standout selection of paintings and works on paper from notable Abstract Expressionists, Pop Artists, street artists of the 1980s, alongside contemporary multiples. Leading the sale is Roy Lichtenstein’s celebrated color-screenprint Reverie, 1965—one of the…
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30 Sunflowers by David Hockney to lead Hong Kong Contemporary Art Evening Sale
David Hockney, 30 Sunflowers, 1996, oil on canvas, 182.9 by 182.9 cm. Estimate Upon Request. Courtesy Sotheby's. HONG KONG.-Sotheby’s will present David Hockney’s 30 Sunflowers from 1996, one of the most extraordinary and significant masterpieces from the artist’s visionary oeuvre, at the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Evening Sale, taking place on…
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A Picasso, a Hockney, and a Kashmir Sapphire Highlight Grogan & Company’s Spring Auction
Grogan & Company’s annual Spring Auction will take place this year on Sunday, June 14 at the company’s Boston headquarters. The auction, which features a curated selection of over 450 lots of fine art, jewelry, silver, and decorative arts from private collections and estates, will be brought to life for…
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Works by Dürer, Hockney, and Warhol lead sales at IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair Online
Andy Warhol, Details of Renaissance Paintings, Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482, 1984. Screenprint, 32 × 44 in, 81.3 × 111.8 cm. Edition of 70 + proofs. NEW YORK, NY.- The IFPDA Fine Art Print FairOnline 2020, the digital initiative launched on May 13th by the IFPDA (International Fine Print Dealers…
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Two paintings by Milton Resnick sell for a combined $167,500 in Shannon's online Fine Art auction, April 30
MILFORD, Conn. – Shannon’s online-only Fine Art auction on April 30th exceeded expectations, selling 80 percent of the 185 lots. Shannon’s spring auction is usually a destination for collectors, with a busy preview, a full saleroom and a bank of 20-plus phone lines. Adapting to the COVID global pandemic, Sandra…
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Shannon's online Spring Fine Art Auction, April 30, features American, modern and contemporary art
MILFORD, Conn. - Shannon’s recently expanded their online auction program in response to the developing “stay home, stay safe” public health initiatives, postponing their Spring catalog and opting to proceed with an Internet-only sale. The online auction will take place Thursday, April 30th at 2 pm Eastern. The catalog is…
