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art auction stories: 44 news summaries

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Lehman CEO's Art Collection Goes Up for Sale

Richard Fuld's wife puts $20M in prized drawings on the block

Sep 27, 08 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - A $20-million collection of abstract expressionist drawings belonging to Lehman boss Richard Fuld and his wife is to be sold by Christie's, Bloomberg reports. Fuld's net worth has taken a whack with the collapse of Lehman stock; the sale, which includes 3 de Koonings, was anounced 4 days after the... More »

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 Iconic Munch Could Fetch $35M 

Vampire, in private hands, comes up for auction

Sep 23, 08 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch that has spent 70 years in private hands will be sold on the open market, reveals the Independent, where it's expected to fetch $35 million. Vampire, painted in 1894, is the last privately owned work from a 20-canvas series that also includes The ... More »

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art • Norway • painting • art auction • Edvard Munch

 Hirst Auction Yields $199M 

Dealer-less London sale smashes records

Sep 17, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Damien Hirst sold 223 pieces of artwork for $199 million by the end of a two-day auction yesterday, shattering the record for most revenue in an auction of a single artist’s work, Forbes reports. The previous mark was held by Pablo Picasso, with 88 sold for $20 million in... More »

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art market • art • Damien Hirst • sales • credit crisis • art auction • Pablo Picasso

 As Stocks Slide, Hirst 
 Auction Breaks Records 

Unprecedented one-man auction exceeds high estimate

Sep 16, 08 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Damien Hirst won the biggest gamble of his career at Sotheby's last night—as lot after lot of the artist's work beat high estimates, totaling $127.2 million in sales. While the markets tumbled in New York, bidders in the London saleroom bought up dozens of brand-new Hirsts, from taxidermied... More »

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art market • London • art • Sotheby's • Damien Hirst • art auction

 Stones' Lips Logo Locks $93K 

London museum buys rock-n-roll brand art

Sep 2, 08 11:21 AM CDT
(AP) - Mick Jagger's pout is officially fit for a museum. London's Victoria and Albert Museum announced today it bought the original artwork for the Rolling Stones' famous lips logo, inspired by the singer's mouth, for $92,500. The lips-and-tongue logo was designed by London art student John Pasche in 1970, and... More »

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 Masters Shore Up
 Shaky Art Market 

Auctions break records, but living artists' work suffers

Jul 3, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The art market has again defied the economic downturn, with Christie's and Sotheby's bringing in more than $1 billion combined during the past two weeks' London sales—a 19% rise from last year. But those numbers disguise the erratic nature of the market, writes the Wall Street Journal. While new... More »

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 Monet Sells for Record $80.4M 

Rare waterlily work attracts high bidders at Christie's

Jun 24, 08 9:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - One of Monet’s rare waterlily paintings sold at Christie’s in London tonight for more than $80 million, a record price for the artist, the New York Times reports. At least six buyers competed for Le Bassin aux Nympheas, a 1919 work from a series of paintings considered among... More »

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Christie's • auction • bid • art auction • impressionist art • Claude Monet

 Hirst Goes Straight to Auction 

Artist eschews galleries and sells new work at Sotheby's

Jun 19, 08 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - In recent years, art collectors and auction houses have been reaping the profits of soaring contemporary art prices, while living artists watched with chagrin. Now Damien Hirst has stepped into the fray, bypassing the gallery system and bringing his latest works straight to auction. "It’s a very democratic... More »

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art • Sotheby's • Damien Hirst • art auction • gallery

Bacon Breaks Record
as Art Market Sizzles

Artist's 1976 masterpiece sells for $86M at red-hot Sotheby's sale

May 15, 08 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 1976 triptych painting by Francis Bacon became the most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold when it went for $86.2 million at auction last night, Reuters reports. Seventeen other artists also set records at the sale, boosting Sotheby's to the best night in its 300-year history and... More »

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art market • art • Sotheby's • Francis Bacon • painting • art auction • Robert Rauschenberg

 Art Continues to Buck 
 Ragged Economy 

Contemporary works bring $348M at Christie's—which even sells a house

May 14, 08 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Christie's auction of contemporary art in New York belied an economic downturn, the Times reports, with paintings, sculpture, and even a house fetching handsome prices. Two works drew particular attention: a portrait of a 280-pound nude woman by Lucian Freud, which sold for $33.6 million, and a house in... More »

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art market • art • Christie's • Mark Rothko • art auction • Lucian Freud • Richard Neutra

 Monet Sells for Record $41M 

Painting fetches tidy sum at Christie's

May 6, 08 10:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Monet painting sold at Christie’s tonight for $41.4 million, a record price for the artist, the New York Times reports. Three bidders competed for the 1873 impressionist painting “The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil,” which Christie’s estimated would go for $35 million. The high bid... More »

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 Art Auction Houses
 Predict 25% Bump 

Sotheby's and Christie's prepare for booming auction season—they hope

May 5, 08 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York art auction season begins today, and Sotheby’s and Christie’s say they believe the art market’s 5-year boom will continue, forecasting $1.8 billion in sales, reports the Financial Times. The prediction of a 25% boost over last year flies in the face of... More »

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Spring Art Auctions Surrounded by Crash Talk

Writers keep predicting implosion, but it might never come

Apr 29, 08 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's auction season again in the art world, and Sotheby's and Christie's have put record estimates on dozens of paintings. Despite warnings in the media of an imminent crash, prices of fine art seem to be impervious to the global economic downturn. It's enough to make one writer at Slate ... More »

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Carla Nude Pic Fetches $91K
at Christie's

1993 portrait of Sarko's wife goes for 20 times expected price

Apr 10, 08 8:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarkozy isn't the only one who gets to see his wife in the buff: a collector paid $91,000 for a photograph of a naked Carla Bruni at Christie's today. The auction house expected Michel Comte's 1993 portrait of the French first lady to sell for no more than $4,... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • art • Christie's • photography • auction • art collector • art auction • Carla Bruni

 Not a Great Time to Be an Artist 

Top financier predicts sharp downturn in market

Apr 3, 08 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The exploding art market may be about to deflate: New York’s flurry of contemporary art fairs last week had surprisingly good sales in light of the economic times, reports Portfolio, but the president of one of the nation’s most active lenders against art predicts a sharp downturn from... More »

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art market • contemporary art • art • recession • art collector • art auction

Sonic Youth's Album Art for Sale

Painting that graced classic Daydream Nation cover goes up for auction

Feb 21, 08 11:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Music fans for whom Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation is an all-time classic will get a chance next week to bid on the painting that served as album-cover art, the Independent reports. Kerze (Candle), a 1983 work by German Gerhard Richter, is one in a series of still lifes based... More »

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art market • art • Sotheby's • painting • rock and roll • art collector • Sonic Youth • art auction • Gerhard Richter

Russians Smash Records at Sotheby's Sale

Recession-defying London art auction brings in $230M

Feb 6, 08 1:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Sotheby's held its most successful sale ever of modern and impressionist art in London last night, with Russian collectors leading a buying frenzy on a day stock markets tumbled. The auction house sold 67 lots worth $230 million—topping high estimate, Bloomberg reports. "There was a lot of buying... More »

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Russia • art • Sotheby's • art auction

Contemporary Art Scores for Auction Houses

Sales swelled 36% in 2007; some fear houses too invested in the new

Dec 27, 07 11:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Contemporary art has been very good to Sotheby’s, fueling a 46% boost in sales for the world’s second-largest auctioneer this year over last, Bloomberg says. A crop of new collectors from the US, Russia and Asia brought new records for artists like Francis Bacon and Jeff Koons, for... More »

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contemporary art • London • art • subprime mortgages • Sotheby's • Christie's • Francis Bacon • Vincent Van Gogh • art auction • Jeff Koons • impressionist art

Art Market Sails Over Turmoil

Weak dollar, overseas buyers help keep prices high

Dec 26, 07 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - US financial markets were in chaos this year, but the art market certainly wasn't. The expanding ranks of the super-rich, the weak dollar, and emerging connoisseurs from Russia, China, India, and the Middle East kept auction houses in fine form, the AP reports, with postwar and contemporary works—including a... More »

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art • Andy Warhol • Sotheby's • Christie's • auction • US economy • Matisse • art auction • weak dollar

Gauguin Sculpture a Fake

'The Faun' outed as impostor after decade in Chicago art museum

Dec 12, 07 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - After a decade on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, a ceramic figure allegedly sculpted by Paul Gauguin was revealed yesterday to be a fake. The museum discovered 'The Faun,' a half-man, half-goat figure, to be the work not of the 19th century French artist, but of a... More »

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art museum • art market • Chicago • art • Britain • art auction • Paul Gauguin • Art Institute of Chicago • forgeries • Shaun Greenhalgh • Olive Greenhalgh • George Greenhalgh • forgery

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