Just day after Sotheby’s auction house had staged its most successful auction in its history, taking $375m (£236m), Christie’s broke this record and ended its Post-War and Contemporary Art event with a total sale of $412.3 million, with 11 artist’s records set! Following the historic evening sale which became the most valuable auction ever in [...]
23 February 2012 
Edvard Munch’s The Scream Masterpiece to Fetch $80 Million
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Sotheby’s will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream at an auction in New York on May 2, where it expects to fetch over $80 million, the highest pre-sale value the auctioneer has ever put on a work of art. The painting is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father [...]
11 November 2011 
Andreas Gursky’s photograph of the Rhine River Sets Record at Christie’s Auction
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Despite what you might think, this isn’t some random snapshot we found online, it’s actually the world’s most expensive photograph. A 1999 photograph of the Rhine river, titled Rhein II, by German artist Andreas Gursky has sold for $4.3 million at Christie’s Post-War Contemporary Evening Sale in New York, setting a record for any photograph [...]
27 May 2011 
LS Lowry’s The Football Match Painting Sold for $9.1 Million at Christie’s
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LS Lowry’s The Football Match Painting Having not been seen in public for almost 20 years, The Football Match, 1949, by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976), has sold for £5.6 million ($9.1 million). An exceptionally rare depiction of one of Britain’s most popular sports, football (soccer), by one of the country’s most iconic British artists, was bought at [...]
22 May 2011 
Cindy Sherman’s 1981 Photo “Untitled #96″ – Most Expensive Art Photo
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Cindy Sherman’s 1981 Photo “Untitled #96″ At Christie’s contemporary art auction in New York, Cindy Sherman’s 1981 self-portrait Untitled #96 sold to New York dealer Philippe Segalot for a whopping $3.89 million, making it the most expensive photograph ever purchased. Christie’s confirmed that this was a record for a photograph at auction, previously held by [...]
20 May 2011 
A Parisian Café by Ilya Repin Will Lead Christie’s Forthcoming Russian Sale
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Participants inspect a painting called ‘A Parisian Cafe’ by artist Ilya Repin during the Fine Art Auction House Christie’s Moscow exhibition, April 1, 2011. Ilya Repin’s A Parisian Café, the last great work by this preeminent Russian master in private hands, will lead Christie’s forthcoming Russian sale, which will take place on Monday 6 June in [...]
11 May 2011 
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther Sculpture Sells for Meager $16.8 Million
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Jeff Koons’ iconic Pink Panther sculpture has fetched $16.8 million at the Sotheby’s Spring Sale of Contemporary Art. The 1988 porcelain sculpture of a blonde woman hugging a pink panther toy it was earlier expected to sell for between $20 million and $30 million. There were three editions made of the work, the one at Tuesday’s [...]
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