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Christie's Sells Nearly Half a Billion Dollars of Contemporary Art
Christie's contemporary art sale last night achieved the highest total in auction history at $495 million. Records were set for Pollock, Lichtenstein, Basquiat, Manzoni, Tuymans, Cornell, Hofmann, Guston, Noland, Mehretu, Serra and Ruth Asawa in a two-hour sale in a buzzing, packed room in which 94 percent of artworks offered found buyers among an exceptionally active field of telephone and in-room bidders. Read More
Newman, Richter and Klein Make Records at Sotheby's
Works by Barnett Newman, Gerhard Richter and Yves Klein led a $294-million contemporary art sale at Sotheby's New York last night, each setting an auction record. At $37.1 million, the Richter set an auction record for any living artist. After fevered bidding on some early lots, including works by Cy Twombly, John Currin and George Condo that benefited the Whitney Museum, however, the room cooled off. Read More
Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie's Aim to Save the Planet
Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie's New York raised $38.8 million at an auction last night to benefit the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which intends to raise ecological awareness and preserve the environment. The sale had been estimated to net upwards of $15 million. Every work on offer found a buyer among bidders from 32 countries.
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Basquiat, Bacon and Newman lead 700-Million-Dollar Auction Week
Nearly $700 million worth of postwar and contemporary art may change hands at evening auctions this week.
Multimillion-dollar works by artists such as Barnett Newman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter go to the block during Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips spring sales. The auctions follow last week's Impressionist and modern art sales at Sotheby's and Christie's, which surprised many observers by bringing in a tidy $388 million on middling-quality offerings, and the second Frieze New York art fair, which ends today. Read More
Walking Through Frieze with Amy Smith-Stewart
Riding the water taxi across the East River to Randalls Island for a VIP preview of the Frieze New York art fair (through May 13), curator Amy Smith-Stewart recalled that art fairs had already changed the art world ecosystem as early as eight years ago. Read More
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Mixed Media, 212 x 66 inches, Courtesy the artist.
Artist Kirstine Roepstorff was born and trained in Denmark, but lives and works in Berli
