Blue chip treasures from one of Manhattan’s fiercest billionaire divorces Monday night helped Sotheby’s achieve what it calls record total sales for a private art collection at auction, $922 million with fees. Sotheby’s sells second prize-winning cache of modern and contemporary works owned by real estate magnate Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife, Linda Macklowe, honorary …
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Ernie Barnes‘s most famous painting, “This sugar shackAn enthusiastic dance scene in the program ” Cover of Marvin Gaye’s album “I Want You” and during the closing credits of the TV sitcom “Good Times,” it was sold to an energy trader for $15.3 million at Christie’s 20th Century auction on Thursday evening. Bill PerkinsIt is …
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Ernie Barnes‘s most famous painting, “sugar shackAn enthusiastic dance scene in the program ” Cover of Marvin Gaye’s album “I Want You” and during the closing credits of the TV sitcom “Good Times,” it was sold to a former energy trader for $15.3 million at Christie’s 20th Century auction on Thursday evening. Bill PerkinsIt is …
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The third-row collector, Peter Brant, said that Francesco Clemente, the third party in the sale, said “Fourteen Stations, No. XI” for $1.9 million, above an estimate of $80,000 to $120,000. Later, seller Larry Gagosian purchased Cy Twombly’s blue, green, and purple painting on a wood panel for approximately $17 million, above the high estimate of …
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Rare violins that once belonged to famous virtuosos such as Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz and Yehudi Menuhin have been sold privately for up to $20 million in recent years. The instruments they play typically bear their name, for example the “Earl of Plymouth” Stradivarius, which is now also referred to as “ex-Kreisler” to shine its …
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The other two canvases were sent to the United States after Leutze finished it in 1851. Miss Kestenman said the larger canvas went to the Stuyvesant Institute in New York and was displayed under bright lights in October 1851. “It has become a real event,” he said. “It was like going to the theater to …
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The Pissarro painting, which is at the center of the dispute between the heirs of a Jewish couple whose art collection was confiscated by the Nazis before the Second World War, and the heirs of a Jewish family who bought it in 1994, will be sold at auction next month after the two sides. agreement …
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The Pissarro painting, which is at the center of the dispute between the heirs of a Jewish couple whose art collection was confiscated by the Nazis before the Second World War, and the heirs of a Jewish family who bought it in 1994, will be sold at auction next month after the two sides. agreement …
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More than 150 personal items and artworks that Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has stored in her Washington residence and Supreme Court chambers are up for auction. Potomack Company auction house in Alexandria, Va. catalogs opened this month For items featuring Picasso’s ceramics and a caricature print of the much-loved justice who passed away in 2020. …
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The mural shows Indian cavalry advancing from both sides in the cornered British army. In one part of the 18th century battlefield, the victorious commander sits on an elephant holding a red rose in his hand. According to a prominent British historian of India, the nearly 32-foot-long masterpiece, which was auctioned in London on Wednesday, …
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Russian troops had just begun. to invade Ukraine When the executives at the Phillips auction house realized they had a problem. Public awareness was developing towards the Russian oligarchs and their interests. Sanctions were imposed, his assets were frozen. some collectors the concerns expressed Phillips was owned by two wealthy Russians who also control the …
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A long-overlooked painting by Italian renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, now being touted as a “semi-permanent masterpiece,” is poised to make the art market’s first headline-grabbing auction price in 2022. Botticelli’s temperature on the panel “Man of Sorrow” a half-length depiction of the resurrected Jesus raising his hand in blessing, the star party of a Sotheby’s …
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