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...Peyton appears again in Phillips’ “20th Century to Now” sale on June 30, with a timely portrait of a young Prince Harry (£400,000-£600,000)....
...Harold Rosenberg summed up Abstract Expressionist gloom as Barnett Newman (the tight zip canvases) closing the door, Rothko pulling down the blinds, Ad Reinhardt (who painted mainly in black) turning off...
...Examples that have fetched eye-watering prices at auction include the Rolex Bao Dai 6062 triple calendar (SFr5,066,000); Paul Newman’s own Rolex Daytona 6239 with an exotic dial ($17,752,500); the JB Champion...
...About a week later, Newman gave him the watch. Phillips sold a Reference 6263 “Big Red” Daytona, worn by Newman and gifted to his youngest daughter Clea Newman Soderlund in 2008, for $5.5mn in 2020....
...As recently as June, Phillips sold a regular production 5711 for $170,000 (about five times what the official retail had been). The situation is far from unique to Patek....
...His contemporary Bowling was meanwhile adapting colour field abstraction to include blurred maps of Africa, or in “Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman”, reinterpreting Barnett Newman’s “zip” compositions as the...
...So, on the face of it, the SFr200,000 to SFr400,000 (about £162,344 to £324,688) estimate for Lot 206 of a Phillips Geneva watch auction last November was pretty punchy....
...A Rolex Cosmograph Daytona with a “Paul Newman” dial, for example, was worth about £10,000. Now, the best realise hundreds of thousands....
...Indeed, Phillips was an early endorser of Kraulis’s work: she had just embarked on her life as a watch artist when the auctioneer asked her to do a residency during the pre-auction viewing of Paul Newman...
...Rolex Daytona Ref 6239, $17,752,500, Phillips, 2017 Celebrity items tend to fetch high prices at auction, and this Rolex Daytona owned and worn by the late American actor Paul Newman sold for a record-shattering...
...Phillips sold the actor’s own 1968 Paul Newman Daytona for $17.8m in 2017, a world record for any wristwatch at auction....
...Celebrating his birthday, he spotted a watch-dealer friend wearing what, in the penumbral conditions of a New York nightclub, he took to be a gold Paul Newman Daytona....
...In 1944, Avery had his first solo museum show at the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington (now the Phillips Collection)....
...Rolex record The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona given to actor Paul Newman by his wife in the early 1970s has fetched a record $17.8m after selling to an anonymous buyer at Phillips in New York following 12 minutes...
...It’s game, set and match for Phillips this season....
...“A Heuer Carrera has a Valjoux 72 movement, same as a Paul Newman, the dials were made by Singer like the Paul Newman, even the case diameter is the same.”...
...In April, Sotheby’s sold the Pink Star, a 59.6ct fancy vivid pink diamond, for $71.2m, and six months later Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona fetched $17.8m at Phillips....
...Sotheby’s and Phillips were yet to field up to $400m of works in their evening sales as this column went to press....
...“It’s business as usual,” says Helena Newman, chairman of Sotheby’s Europe. Sotheby’s contemporary evening auction, estimated to make up to $300m, was still to come as this column went to press....
...The Sotheby’s sale will also include: a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, which has a so-called “Paul Newman” dial and has been in long-term ownership (predicted to fetch £40,000-£60,000); a modern Patek Philippe...
...“If you ask most men who they want to look like, it’s always the usual names that come up — Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Sean Connery....
...“The market for Impressionist and modern art is alive and kicking,” declared Sotheby’s specialist Helena Newman at the end of an epic three-hour auction on Wednesday, which racked up £163.5m and was marked...
.... ——————————————- susie.boyt@ft.com, @SusieBoyt More columns at ft.com/boyt ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Cosmo: cuisine, culture – and that staple, coffee / From Mr Michael Newman...
...In 2010, one of those paintings surfaced at an auction by Phillips de Pury and made $86,500 and, in 2011, another made an astonishing $290,000....
...It has recruited Sotheby’s specialist Jocelyn Phillips and is holding spring and autumn auctions in London. “We offer an entry level for new collectors, with some images priced around £500,” she says....
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