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...Perhaps the last true avant-garde movement of the 20th century” is how Christie’s describes CoBrA – the artist group founded in 1948....
...“It’s hard to imagine that Lee Krasner [married to Jackson Pollock] was overlooked for so long, but she was,” Rajaratnam says. Drexler “holds her own, and not only among female artists”....
...We, about two-thirds of the revenue of Christie’s is this 2021 group, because, again, it has all like from, you know, from, from Van Gogh to Monet to Warhol and Pollock to de Kooning to Basquiat to Koons...
...More than 20 bidders vied for the work; the eventual buyer, in Christie’s New York saleroom, was Bill Perkins, a hedge fund manager....
...The actor and comedian let us photograph him with some of his beloved acquisitions, works he rightly thinks should hang alongside Agnes Martin and Jackson Pollock in the canon of contemporary art....
...Christie’s last week sold just over $1.1bn of art as part of the twice-yearly season in New York....
...“[MoMA curator] Kirk Varnedoe said that Cy Twombly challenged Jackson Pollock with a pencil. What I like about the art is the confidence, the power, the freshness of it....
...I'm sure if NFTs were around when Jackson Pollock was around and you could get the empty paint buckets that those paint buckets today would be worth just as much as the damn paintings....
...I use Artprice to check on the market, ARTnews for updates and, of course, Christie’s and Sotheby’s....
..., meaning that Christie’s has to pay out but now has the works on its hands....
...Mere days before Hirst and I speak, Christie’s sold Beeple’s digital artwork The First 5,000 Days to the blockchain entrepreneur/NFT collector known as “MetaKovan” for $69.3m in cryptocurrency....
...These have included Jackson Pollock’s “Red Composition” (1946), which sold from Syracuse’s Everson Museum for $12m ($13m with fees, Christie’s) “to benefit acquisitions and collections care”....
...Sale totals worldwide fell 97 per cent at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips during May, from nearly $2.9bn in 2019 to $93m last month, according to data from Pi-eX....
...Weisman, who died in 2018 (another Weisman set sold at Christie’s in New York last year)....
...7 Pollock’s Path, The Peak, Hong Kong, HK$886m (US$113m) Where On Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island....
...Two years after her death in 2014, Rivers’ family put hundreds of her personal items up for auction at Christie’s in New York, including dresses, furniture, art and jewellery....
...But I don’t think that the history of art will go Matisse, Pollock, Johns, Basquiat, KAWS.”...
...What Jackson Pollock did for painting, Grima achieved with jewellery, liberating it from formality to create new forms using unusual techniques....
...According to Guillaume Cerutti, Christie’s (French) chief executive, Ebsworth was a Francophile....
...Prices for fine art sometimes seem more abstract than a Jackson Pollock....
...While Pollock and Rothko were experimenting with energy and colour, Katz was painting people....
...In 2013 Christie’s sold Francis Bacon’s 1969 “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” for $142m....
...Included in Washburn’s exhibition are works made by Lee Krasner, David Smith and Jackson Pollock, including a mosaic by Pollock — “Untitled CR1048” (c1938-41) — that was rejected by the WPA and is now available...
...But the artwork, “Le Marin”, estimated to sell for roughly $70m at Christie’s, was damaged in its final preparations for the auction and pulled at the last minute....
...Knoedler Gallery, whose first Modern art forgery trial settled earlier this year, closed down the day after it received Martin’s forensic report that found a painting bought there for $17m as by Jackson Pollock...
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