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In October 2017, Red Skull sold for $21.6 million at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London. [1] A week after the auction, the anonymous consignor of the painting announced that he or she would donate all the proceeds after taxes to the New Jersey chapter of the Knowledge Is Power Program , a nonprofit that helps ...
In this display of post-war US art, Voice of Fire "was given pride of place" as the centrepiece. [5] In March 1990, the National Gallery announced its purchase of the painting for $1.8 million, [ 6 ] which ignited a "firestorm" of media attention and controversy in Ottawa mostly centred on the question of whether the work was worthy of being ...
The record is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500). The painting was sold in November 2017, [1] [2] through the auction house Christie's in New York City.
Missing for 80 years and thought lost, a painting banned by the Nazis has sold for almost £6m (€7m) at auction. Only seen before in black-and-white photos taken by the artist themself, Tanz im ...
He started painting the canvas some time in 1872 and finished it in 1878. [2] Soon afterwards, he received a scepter from the council of Kraków in an official ceremony, in recognition of his work and his position as one of the most respected Polish artists. [3] The painting was sold that year to Dawid Rosenblum, a private individual in Warsaw. [2]
The highest price paid for a post-war painting in a private sale is believed to be $140 million (~$160 million in May 2012 dollars) for Jackson Pollock's No. 5, 1948 in November 2006. In constant dollars , the record price for post-war art at a public auction remained with Triptych, 1976 by Francis Bacon , sold at Sotheby's for $86.3 million in ...
Three years prior to his death, a work by Rothko sold on the secondary market for $22,000; [155] in 2003 a painting by Rothko sold for $7,175,000. [156] Rothko's paintings sold at successively higher prices at auction through the mid-2010s, [ 157 ] [ 158 ] [ 159 ] reaching $86.8 million in 2012, a record for Rothko and, at the time, a new ...
In 2018, Hockney’s 1972 piece “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” sold for $90.3 million, setting a then record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living ...