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By Adrian Darmon
99.9 MILLION USD FOR PHILLIPS CONTEMPORARY ART SALE Phillips's Contemporary art sale held in New York on May 15 totaled 100 million USD with Kaws's seven foot wide The Walk Home (2012) featuring SpongeBob SquarePants fetching almost 6 million with fees against a high estimate of $800,000. Voir la news
ALMOST 342 MILLION USD FOR SOTHEBY'S SALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Sotheby's sale of Contemporary art held on May 16 in New York yielded just under 342 million USD, far below the 538.9 million USD reaped by Christie's the previous night, with two works by Francis Bacon and one Rothko accounting for 115 million of that total. Voir la news
ALMOST 350 MILLION USD FOR SOTHEBY'S SALE OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and modern art held on May 14 in New York yielded 349.85 million USD with 90.9 % of lots sold and a record set at 110,747,000 USD for Claude Monet's Les Meules painted in 1890. Voir la news
CHRISTIE'S YIELDS 538.9 MILLION USD WITH A WORLD RECORD FOR KOONS Christie's sale of post-war and Contemporary art sale held on May 15 in New York yielded a total of $538.9 million, against a global estimate of $422 million to $605 million after two lots were withdrawn.. Voir la news
ALMOST 400 MILLION USD FOR CHRISTIE'S SALE OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART Christie's evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art held on May 13 in New York fetched $399 million—hitting the high pre-sale estimate and far surpassing the low estimate of $287.5 million. Of the 63 lots offered, 54, or 86 percent, were sold while new auction records were set for works by Balthus and Pierre Bonnard. Voir la news
THE DAY ADRIAN DARMON DISAPPEARED Adrian Darmon, a long-time serving journalist and art historian who created half a dozen magazines and the artcult website in 1996, seems to have disappeared on February 18 on his way to testify before the correctional court of Toulon with the hope that the dealer who stole from him a rare Derain fauve painting between February 2 and 4, 2016, would be metted down with a harsh condemnation. Voir la news
TOUGH TIME FOR CHRISTIE'S POSTWAR AND CONTEMPOORARY ART Christie's London contemporary sale held on March 6, 2019 only totaled 79.3 million GBPwith 93 percent of lots sold, far less from last year's 137.5 million. 50% of the sales were either on or below the low estimates, indicating poor competition. Voir la news
SOTHEBY'S CONTEMPORARY SALE IN LONDON SO AND SO Sotheby's contemporary art sale held in London on March 5, 2019 totaled 93.3 million GBP (including premium), however down from £109.3 million generated by the equivalent sale last year. Voir la news
CHRISTIE'S SALE OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART A BIT DISAPPOINTING Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern art held in London on February 27 yielded 165.7 million GBP, below a pre-sale estimate of at least 179 million after three lots were withdrawn, while a Claude Monet waterlily pond with a weeping willow at Giverny estimated at 40 million was left unsold. Voir la news
2018 WAS GOOD FOR CHRISTIE'S Christie's has announced that their 2018 sales totaled $7 billion (including 653.3 million in private transactions), up six percent from 2017, however below results achieved in 2014 ($8.4 billion) and 2015 ($7.4 billion). Voir la news
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99.9 MILLION USD FOR PHILLIPS CONTEMPORARY ART SALE
