Tag: Sells
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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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Drawing of Foot Recently Discovered as Authentic Michelangelo Work Sells for $27.2 M. at Christie’s, Sets New Record
Last March, a person who now wishes to remain anonymous submitted a photograph of a small, framed drawing of a foot to Christie’s online “Request an Auction Estimate” portal. Just under a year later—and after months of authentication research—the work, newly identified as an authentic drawing by Michelangelo, sold for $27.2 million on a $1.5 read more
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Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Sells for Record-Setting $5.7 M. at Christie’s
An early self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi broke a record for the Italian Baroque painter when it sold at Christie’s in New York for $5.69 million—well over its estimate of $2.5 million to $3.5 million. As reported by Artnet News, “The previous auction high for a Gentileschi was $5.25 million (€4.7 million), which was set in read more
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Thomas Kaplan’s Rembrandt Lion Drawing Sells for $17.8 M. at Sotheby’s
After a world tour that saw Rembrandt van Rijn’s Young Lion Resting (ca. 1638–42) travel to Paris, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo, and New York, the drawing finally sold for a record $17.9 million on Wednesday (all quoted prices include fees). That’s the highest price ever paid for a drawing by the Dutch master. While the result read more
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Adolf Hitler’s Art Still Sells, as ‘Industry’ Just Reminded Us
Adolf Hitler’s artistic ambitions may havedied in a Vienna admissions office, but his watercolors remain surprisingly alive on the auction circuit—and, now, on prestige television. This week’s episode of HBO’sIndustryfeatures a quiet reveal that would have felt implausible if it weren’t so well documented: a tasteful watercolor of Neuschwanstein Castle turns out to be signed read more
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