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...This analyses sales of unique works at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, with data from ArtTactic....
...He says, though, that news this week that China’s gross domestic product growth performed better than expected in the first quarter of the year could improve the mood ahead of sales at Christie’s and Phillips...
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...For the three major auction houses — Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips — whose sales rely heavily on the thin $10mn-plus market, the unsettling backdrop contributed to a combined fall of 18 per cent to...
...Phillips’ dedicated auction will be in New York on November 14. Anat Ebgi, a gallerist with three spaces in Los Angeles, is opening in New York....
...Phillips hosts its first auction dedicated to ceramics made by Lucie Rie and her colleague and friend Hans Coper in London on November 1....
...Phillips will offer a monumental two-part painting by Gerhard Richter for about $30mn as the star lot of its November 14 sale in New York....
...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)....
...I bought a large tote bag decorated with an artichoke print from a baroque painting there, and my only regret is that I didn’t buy the one that riffed on a painting by Fortuny....
...Headlined by two René Magritte paintings, the auction house will offer 33 works with a combined estimate of at least $120mn, 15 of which will be in a dedicated sale on May 16....
...But “it’s not all doom and gloom”, says Jonathan Crockett, chair of Asia at Phillips....
...Her running total puts sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips at $13.6bn, up 12 per cent from last year and already above the previous high of $13.2bn for the full year 2014....
...This season’s hot artist seems to be the more ethereal, LA-based Lucy Bull (born 1990) whose 2019 painting was the best performer against estimate at Phillips selling for $380,000 ($478,800 with fees); while...
...“It’s going to make us an institution that’s as well regarded as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery for photography,” says Phillip Roberts, the man who has been hired as the Bern and Ronny Schwartz...
...One of this year’s hits was the well-deserving Scottish painter Caroline Walker, who had her auction record broken at three consecutive sales in a row: £239,400 at Christie’s; £516,600 at Phillips; and then...
...On May 18, Phillips hit its highest ever sale total of $192mn ($225mn with fees)....
...“Jewellery doesn’t have the same prestige as architecture; stone cutting doesn’t get the same appreciation as a painting....
...In response to the crisis, Aspinal of London’s Ukrainian creative director Mariya Dykalo has designed a silk sunflower scarf, a copy of her own oil painting using the colours of the Ukrainian flag....
...The totals show that New York extended its dominance as a trading centre, based on first-half results, including fees, from Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips....
...Europe’s evening auctions of modern and contemporary art brought in a solid £311mn (£370mn with fees) at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips between June 28 and 30, yet showed signs of market fatigue....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
...Sotheby’s and Phillips estimate they will clinch sales of at least $550m in the coming days, on top of Monday’s results. Linda Macklowe declined to comment....
...Such enthusiasm for traditional paintings may not run deep through 2022 but made a refreshing old-guard contrast to the metaverse....
...Sales from Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips are currently running at $10.8bn for the year to date, compared with $5.8bn for the same period last year, Bourron finds....
...The collection from “The Laskett” house is “not grand”, Strong says, having already sold some of his Old Masters paintings last year....
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