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By Adrian Darmon
YOUNG ARTISTS FARE WELL AT PHILLIPS IN LONDON
Some promising young artists whose works highlighted the Frieze fair attracted many buyers during a sale held by Phillips at their new London headquarters in Berkeley Square on October 15, 2014.
RECORD BID FOR GERMAN DOLL Bonhams has set a
new record for the world's most expensive doll, selling on September 24
204 in London a rare early 20th Century German Kämmer & Reinhardt
character doll for £242,500 ($395,750)
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CLEAN SHEET AT BONHAMS The contents of Count and Countess Martignone's two Italian propertieswas 100% sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street on September 24 2014 in what the auction industry calls a 'white glove sale'. Link
CHRISTIE'S SALE OF POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART TOTALS OVER 99 MILLION GBP On 1 July 2014, Christie's London evening auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art realised a total of £99,413,500 selling 87% by value and 84% by lot. Link
93 MILLION GBP FOR SOTHEBY'S SALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN LONDON A rare triptych picturing Francis Bacon's lover George Dyer sold for £26.7 million at Sotheby's on June 30, 2014 during a contemporary art evening auction which also set new world records forPeter DoigandAdrian Ghenie Link
28.6 MILLION EUROS FOR SOTHEBY'S TWO-DAY CONTEMPORARY ART SALE IN PARIS Sotheby's contemporary art sale held in Paris on June 3 and 4, 2014 achieved 28,6 million euros, a record for an auction of contemporary art in France with world records achieved for Kazuo Shiraga (€ 3.9 million ), Germaine Richier (€ 1.7 million ) and Sam Szafran (€ 865,500 ) Link
LEE PRICE A WOMAN ARTIST TO BANK ON Lee Price, a figurative hyperrealist painter from New York who has been working on the relationship between woman and food for over twenty years is surely an artist to watch closely on the Contemporary art market in the coming years. Link
INDECENT PIRACY OF THE NAME ARTCULT ON THE PART OF CHINESE FIRMS Protecting the name artcult which I created 18 years ago when I launched the www.artcult.com website alas seems to be a battle lost in advance following the shameful initiatives of many firms, especially Chinese, aimed at annexing it. Link
SAM PITRODA EXHIBITION IN VIENNA The Lukas Feichtner gallery situated at Seilerstätte 19 in Vienna (Austria) has been staging an exhibition of Sam Pitroda's works titled "Between Memory and Phantasy" from May 27 to June 19, 2014.
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YOUNG ARTISTS FARE WELL AT PHILLIPS IN LONDON
