Jackson Pollock News
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Andy Warhol’s 1962 silkscreen painting “Four Marilyns” sold for $38.2 million at Phillips in New York last night, the top price in a $78.6 contemporary-art sale that concluded two weeks of semi-annual evening auctions.
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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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A monumental Barnett Newman canvas fetched a record $43.8 million at a $294 million Sotheby’s auction last night, as contemporary art prices rose with stocks.
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Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen could help sell as much as $1.3 billion of art at the three New York auction houses this month.
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It might be wise to admit that there is more bad than good abstract art, which has been compromised over the decades by a host of inept imitations. All the more reason to celebrate the masterworks in this difficult genre.
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Sotheby’s bounced back from last week’s lackluster sales with its biggest-ever auction, setting records for six artists including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Arshile Gorky.
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A Greek heiress is fighting a legal battle in Switzerland to find out what has become of a collection of Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and Degas art that she says should be part of her inheritance.
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A 1951 drip painting by Jackson Pollock sold for $40.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York tonight, setting an auction record for the Abstract Expressionist artist (1912-1956).
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Marc Restellini, founder and director of the Pinacotheque de Paris, is notorious for his unorthodox views and controversial shows.
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Painting is a physical activity. You could think of it as a sport such as tennis, requiring virtuoso control of the brush to achieve a particularly fine stroke.
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