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Records were smashed for Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and auctions themselves as Christie’s sold $495 million of contemporary art last night in New York.
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Christie’s threw a party on the plaza of the Seagram Building Saturday night, next to the giant yellow Urs Fischer teddy bear it is auctioning on Wednesday, with an estimate of $10 million.
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A trademark self-portrait by Jean- Michel Basquiat is estimated to sell for a record $20 million when it appears at auction this month.
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Andy Warhol’s 1962 “Statue of Liberty” could fetch more than $35 million when it’s auctioned on Nov. 14 at Christie’s in New York.
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Andy Warhol’s 1966 canvas of leather-clad Marlon Brando on a motorcycle is expected to bring about $20 million at Christie’s in New York in November.
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A 1905 Maurice de Vlaminck landscape owned by hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen could sell for as much as $25 million at Christie’s International this week, more than double the artist’s $10.8 million auction record.
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On a day when U.S. stocks lost more than $240 billion in value, Christie’s held its largest-ever postwar and contemporary sale, setting records for eight artists including Franz Kline, Jeff Koons, Donald Judd and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Paintings by Yves Klein and Jean- Michel Basquiat sold for record prices last night as battling billionaires spent $207 million at the most valuable auction of contemporary artworks held in Europe.
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Pussy Riot, the female Russian punk rock band with two members still in jail, landed on ArtReview’s annual ranking of the 100 most influential people in the art world, the Power 100, published today.
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The market for trophy art roared back after a three-night case of the blahs as Christie’s International saw its biggest tally for a New York evening contemporary-art sale since May 2008.
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