12 avril 2011
Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Spectacular Results from the New York Photographs Auction
Richard Avedon, Marlene Dietrich, Turban by Dior, The Ritz, Paris, August, 1955. Estimate $10,000-15,000. Sold $11,250.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s Photographs sale at 450 Park Avenue, comprising 260 lots, sold 94.5% by value and 90.4% by lot totaling $5,802,250 (including premium). Phillips de Pury & Company finalizes the New York Photographs week with outstanding results that confirm the Photographs Department status as a leader in the photographs market across the classic and contemporary... [Lire la suite]
22 juin 2010
Opening Session of Photographs from the Polaroid Collection 100% Sold
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) Sam Wagstaff asleep. unique Polaroid Type 52 print, 1973-75,3 ½ by 4½ in. (8.9 by 11.4 cm.) Sold 16,250 USD. photo Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, bidding began for Photographs from the Polaroid Collection with the opening session bringing a remarkable $7,197,439, well-above expectations (est. $2.9/4.5 million) and with every lot finding a buyer. With more than 300 hundred lots left to sell tomorrow, the running total has already exceeded the low estimate for the entire sale (est.... [Lire la suite]
16 mai 2010
David Hockney troque son carnet de dessin pour un iPad

11 mars 2010
Table by Diego Giacometti Makes Top Price at Bonhams
Diego Giacometti (Swiss, 1902-1985) 'Table Torsade' circa 1965, signed 'Diego' twice to the stetchers, patinated bronze and glass, height 40cm x width 127 x length 63cm. Sold for £108,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium. Photo: Courtesy Bonhams
LONDON.- A table designed by Diego Giacometti sold for £106,000 at Bonhams, New Bond Street today (10 March 2010), as part of its Post War and Contemporary Art and Design sale. Entitled Table Torsade, and cast circa 1965, it had belonged to the late English actor James Mason (1909-1984)... [Lire la suite]
02 février 2010
Major retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs @ the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf

22 janvier 2010
Important Modern and Contemporary Prints at Leslie Sacks Fine Art
Robert MOTHERWELL (1915-1991), 'The Black and the Red, Number XXV, 1987'. Acrylic and paper collage on paper, 31 5/8 x 25 inches on Whatman. Signed, blindstamped and dated 87 on lower right MOT254. Photo: Leslie Sacks Fine Art.
CHICAGO, IL.- Modern and contemporary prints are an extension of a long and illustrious lineage that goes back to the Renaissance engravings of Albrecht Dürer, and the 17th century prints of Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck and Claude Lorraine. The diffusion of printmaking throughout Europe in the 18th... [Lire la suite]
01 décembre 2009
Display Celebrates Anniversary of Jane Bown's Relationship with 'The Observer'

14 novembre 2009
David Hockney @ Nottingham Contemporary
David Hockney A Bigger Splash, 1967. © David Hockney, photo © Tate, London 2009.
NOTTINGHAM.- A major exhibition of over 60 works by David Hockney from national and international museum collections will open Nottingham Contemporary, one of the most interesting new spaces for art in the UK. Designed by leading architects Caruso St John, the public opening is on Saturday 14 November 2009. The exhibition will re-examine Hockney's work 1960-1968, his early years in London and Los Angeles, in the context of art today. It is the... [Lire la suite]
26 septembre 2009
Fisher Collection comes to SFMOMA

11 août 2009
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton @ Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Democrats are more beautiful (after Jonathan Horowitz), 2001. Oil on board. Collection of Sarah and Sattford Broumand © Elizabeth Peyton
MAASTRICHT, NL - The Bonnefantenmuseum will be presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Elizabeth Peyton's oeuvre on the European mainland, which comprises over 90 works (paintings, watercolours, drawings and lithos) from the past 18 years (1991-2009). Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton has been organised by the New Museum, New York. From her first portraits of 19th-century heroes to... [Lire la suite]