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By Adrian Darmon
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.
AN AMAZING TOTAL OF 745 MILLION USD FOR CHRISTIE'S POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART SALE HELD IN NEW YORK Christie's evening sale of postwar and contemporary art held on May 13, 2014 in New York yielded an amazing total of 744,944 million USD thanks in large part to the appetite of wealthy Asian collectors. Link
3 MILLION USD FOR A PAINTING BY FIRMIN-GIRARD Sotheby's sale held in New York on May 9, 2014 brought 16,5 million USD with Marie-François Firmin-Girard'sLe Quai aux Fleurs driven to 3 million USD by multiple determined bidders, reaching over six times its estimate. Link
WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR A ROLEX WATCH IN GENEVA Christie's sale of important watches held in Geneva on May 9 2014 totaled SFR 23,823,225 (19,270,606 euros) with a Patek Philippe – Platinium cushion-shaped minute repeating wristwatch with Breguet numerals made for Henry Graves Jr. which sold for Sfr.1,205,000/US$1,340,804/EUR974,725 Link
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93 MILLION GBP FOR SOTHEBY'S SALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN LONDON
