Tag: Bears

  • Jeff Koons’s Winter Bears Sells for $7.6 M. at Christie’s, Highest Price Ever Achieved for an Artwork in a Mid-Season Sale

    If the $7.6 million paid for a four-foot-tall set of smiling wooden bears has anything to do with it, the price point for the mid-season sales at the major auction houses might be about to go up. Last Thursday, Christie’s sold Jeff Koons’s 1988 sculpture Winter Bears (1988) with a pre-sale estimate of $3.8 million–$5 read more

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    Jeff Koons’s Winter Bears Sells for .6 M. at Christie’s, Highest Price Ever Achieved for an Artwork in a Mid-Season Sale

  • John Wilson Bears Witness

    New York Newsletter The Met has a union, John Wilson has a message, Ana Mendieta’s traces, and other happenings around the city this week. Wow, it’s cold out there. This morning, as I was getting absolutely wrecked by the wind on the walk to work through McCarren Park, I spotted a lone snowman, sitting upon read more

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