Christie’s Raked in a Combined $489 Million From Its Evening Sales in New York

Christie’s Raked in a Combined $489 Million From Its Evening Sales in New York

Christie’s brought in $489 million from two evening sales in New York, with a Piet Mondrian artwork selling for $47.6 million.

The most beautiful net created by the Argentine champion will become a painting that will be put to auction on 11 June for beneficial purposes

Marlene Dumas sets new record for living female artist at auction

Her towering, semi-nude painting from 1997, "Miss January", made $13.2m at Christie's 21st century evening sale in New York

A picture by Piet Mondrian that belonged to the late founder of Barnes & Noble bookstores, Leonard Riggio, raised over $47 million this Monday at a generally lukewarm art auction at Christie's in New York. The entry Un Mondrian collects $47 million in tibia art auction in New York was first published in Digital Process.

Rare Mondrian Sells for $47.6 Million

A 1922 gridded primary-color work by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian fetched $47.6 million inclusive of fees at Christie’s spring auction in New York on May 12. The roughly twenty-one-inch-square canvas—whose size the New York Times somewhat cruelly likened to that of a throw pillow—hammered for $41 million after sparking a bidding war between two collectors, […]

Women Surrealist Artists Set New Records at Auction

Revelación (also titled El relojero) by Remedios Varo (1955) fetched a record $6.2 million at auction on Monday, May 12. Source: Christie’s.   Yesterday, the first evening of Christie’s May marquee week in New York began with the sale of 38 works from the collection of Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio and his wife Louise. The Riggio collection is the most valuable single-owner collection to hit the auction block in the past year.   The Leon…