Posts Tagged ‘Chinese bronzes’
Pulling Art Sales Out of Thinning Air: Gagosian Gallery (NY Times) Art of the Computer Generation at the New Museum (NY Times) Beyond the Armory: Volta, Pulse, and Scope Slideshow (NY Times) L.A.’s Artistic Iconoclasts: “Nine Lives” at the Hammer (LA Times) Strong Suit: Armor in the Art Market (WSJ) Optimism Ahead of Maastricht Fair […]
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Tags: Armory, art fair, auction sabotage, Bridge, Chinese bronzes, Gagosian Gallery, Hammer Museum, Maastricht, New Museum, Nine Lives, opium, party pics, Pulse, Scope, Volta, YSL auction
The YSL sale with totals of $484, 426, 456, is now the greatest single-owner auction in history and second only in all-time high grossing sales to Christie’s multi-owner Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York in November 2006, which had totals of $491,472,000. Auction records were set, thousands of visitors crowded the Grand Palais […]
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Tags: auction, bronze heads, Chinese bronzes, Christie's, faux Chirico, Giorgio di Chirico, history, Le Monde, Le Revenant, Pierre Berge, Pompidou, pre-sale estimate, Qing bronzes, vente YSL-Bergé, YSL Bergé sale, Yves Saint Laurent
By Emily Waldorf The first night of the historic three-day Yves Saint Laurent sale already made $264 million, making it the most successful single owner sale in history. According to Bloomberg, “Dealers said collectors were attracted by the quality of the objects gathered together and were choosing to ignore concerns about falling demand at international […]
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Tags: Brancusi, Chinese bronzes, Christie's, Duchamp, instruments de musique sur un guéridon, James Ensor, Matisse YSL, Mondrian, Paris, Picasso, Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, Pierre Berge, Thomas Seydoux, Yuanmingyuan, Yves Saint Laurent