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By Adrian Darmon
RECORD PRICE FOR A CHINESE VASE
A bidding duel between Asian buyers at a London auction sale held on November 11, 2010 pushed a Qianlong-dynasty vase to a price of 51.6 million pounds ($83.2 million), a world record bid for a piece of Chinese art.
CHRISTIE'S NEW YORK EVENING SALE OF POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART SETS NEW ARTIST RECORDS The Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art organized by Christie's on November 10, 2010 in New York realized $272,873,000/£169,181,260 /€199,197,290, selling 93% by lot and 92% by value. Link
STRONG RESULTS FOR IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN WORKS SOLD AT CHRISTIE'S ON NOVEMBER 3, 2010 The market for blue-chip works and premiere private collections proved strong at Christie's New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art
on November 3, 2010. The highly anticipated 84-lot sale, dense with
works by the great masters of the Impressionist and Modern periods,
included top selling works by Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Joan Miró and
Fernand Léger, among others. The sale realized $231,439,500
(£143,492,490/€164,322,045) and was 80% sold by lot and 88% sold by
value. Link
CHAGALL SHINES IN HONG KONG An
artwork by modernist master Marc Chagall became the most expensive contemporary
Western painting sold in Asia when it was auctioned on Oct 4, 2010 for $US4.18
million ($4.3 million) at a Hong Kong sale. Link
SALE OF THE LEHMAN BROTHERS COLLECTION IN LONDON The auction of Lehman
Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera held by Christie's in
their South Kensington salerooms on September 29, 2010 £1,641,613 /
$2,593,749 / €1,904,271, surpassing its pre-sale estimate
of £769,600 to £1,138,900. Link
CHRISTIE'S JUNE 23,2010 SALE OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
which took place on June 23rd 2010 at Christie's in London
realized £152,595,550 / $226,451,796 / €184,030,233 selling 75% by lot
and 74% by value Link
A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR JASPER JOHNS The stellar sale of The
Michael Crichton Collection of contemporary art held by Christie's on
May 11, 2010 saw Jasper Johns' Flag, 1960-1966 breaking the world
record for the artist selling at $28,642,500.
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A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR PICASSO On
a night that saw a new world record for the most expensive artwork sold
at
auction, Christie's
May 4, 2010 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a
total
of $335,548,000 (£221,461,680/Є258,317,960). The evening was
highlighted by the runaway success of Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green
Leaves and
Bust from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, which sold for a
record $106,482,500
(£70,278,450/€81,991,525), breaking the previous world record for any
work of
art sold at auction. The Evening Sale portion of the Brody Collection
also
became the highest total for a singleowner sale offered at Christies New
York,
surpassing the landmark sale of the Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz
sale in
1997. Link
IT'S MONEY BEFORE ART FOR THE ART MARKET NEW TYCOONS by Adrian Darmon
The art market has been resisting quite well to the financial crisis which swept across the Occidental world in September 2008 thanks to the active part played by new millionaires from Russia and China who have decided to buy art to enhance their status.
CHRISTIE'S APRIL 14 and 15 SALE OF PHOTOGRAPHS IN NEW YORK hree important auctions
of photographs held at Christie's New York on April 14 and 15, 2010 ,
including two significant single-owner sales with dedicated individual
catalogues, Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the
Collection of Patricia McCabe and Selections From The Baio Collection
of Photography as well as the various-owner Photographs sale totaled an
impressive $9,298,875.
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