What type of work is 99 Cent II Diptychon by Andreas Gursky which was sold for USD 3.3 million in 2007 and holds the record for the highest price paid for an artifact in that field?
"99 Cent II Diptychon The artwork 99 Cent II Diptychon from 2001 is a two-part photograph made by Andreas Gursky probably in 1999, as the work is sometimes called ""99 cent.1999"". The work depicts an interior of a supermarket with numerous aisles depicting goods resulting in a colorful work. The work is digitally altered to reduce perspective. The photograph is a chromogenic color print or c-print. It is a two-part work, also called a diptych. There were 6 sets made and mounted on acrylic glass. The photographs have a size of . The work became famous as being the most"
"famous of his works and the most parodied portrait, and ""The Last Supper"" is the most reproduced religious painting of all time. His drawing of the ""Vitruvian Man"" is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. His painting ""Salvator Mundi"" sold for $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York on 15 November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Perhaps 15 of his paintings have survived. Nevertheless, these few works compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that"
"best-known examples being works by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann, and Francis Bacon. The then highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction was $142.4 million for a 1969 triptych, ""Three Studies of Lucian Freud"", by Francis Bacon in November 2012. The record was broken in May 2015 by $179.4 million for Pablo Picasso's 1955 painting ""Les Femmes d’Alger"". The format has migrated and been used in other religions, including Islam and Buddhism. For example: the triptych ""Hilje-j-Sherif"" displayed at the National Museum of Oriental Art, Rome, Italy, and a page of the ""Qur'an"" at the Museum of Turkish and"
"Gogh’s ""Portrait of Doctor Gachet"" sold for $82.5 million. In November 2013, $142.4 million was paid for the 1969 triptych, ""Three Studies of Lucian Freud"", by Francis Bacon. The highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction was Pablo Picasso's ""Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O)"" (Women of Algiers) that was sold by Christie's in May 2015 for $179.4 million. Sotheby's and Christie's has become major dealers of Chinese porcelain antiques. As of 2016, some of the best collections had been auctioned for tens of millions US Dollars, through Sotheby's and Christie's. In the 21st Century, and especially since 2010,"
"million ($86.28 million), then a record for the artist and the highest price paid for a postwar work of art at auction up to 2008. On 13 November 2013, ""Three Studies of Lucian Freud"" sold at Christie's New York for $142.4 million, surpassing both ""Triptych"" and ""1976"" in auctioned value, and more importantly claiming the record for highest auction price of a work of art at that time, a title previously held by the fourth version of Edvard Munch's ""Scream"" and now held by Leonardo da Vinci's """"Salvator Mundi"""". A first, incomplete catalogue raisonné was compiled by curator Ronald Alley"
"living woman artist. In November 2008, Christie's New York sold a 1959 white ""Infinity Net"" painting formerly owned by Donald Judd, ""No. 2"", for US$5.1 million, then a record for a living female artist. In comparison, the highest price for a sculpture from her New York years is £72,500 (US$147,687), fetched by the 1965 wool, pasta, paint and hanger assemblage ""Golden Macaroni Jacket"" at Sotheby's London in October 2007. A 2006 acrylic on fiberglass-reinforced plastic pumpkin earned $264,000, the top price for one of her sculptures, also at Sotheby's in 2007 Her ""Flame of Life - Dedicated to Tu-Fu (Du-Fu)"""
"at auction. When inflation is taken into account, a higher price was reached at the same auction house for Van Gogh's ""Portrait of Dr. Gachet"", which in 1990 sold for $ million current dollars. Bacon's triptych did surpass the constant dollar record of $119.9 million set by the fourth version of Edvard Munch's ""The Scream"" in May 2012. The 2013 sale also represents the highest price paid for a work by a British or Irish artist, beating Bacon's ""Triptych 1976"", which fetched $86.3 million in May 2008. Three Studies of Lucian Freud Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969"
"later in 2007 by a Liechtenstein court, and ultimately auctioned by Christie's in New York for $1,850,000 ($2,154,000 with premium) on November 3, 2009. Following a review, a March 2008 Claremont McKenna College statement said the professor ""adhered to applicable contractual and legal obligations"" in attempting to arrange return of the painting. Jonathan Petropoulos Jonathan Petropoulos (born January 10, 1961) is an American historian who writes about National Socialism and, in particular, the fate of art looted during World War II. He is John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Before his 1999"
"was now being questioned by the Oskar Kokoschka Foundation. Auctionata published the Foundation's critique immediately upon receiving it and the painting eventually sold for only $9,975 (€7,500). Auctionata also auctioned a newly discovered watercolor, ""Reclining Woman"" by Egon Schiele. The painting was sold for $2.4 million (€1,827,250), the highest grossing piece of fine art sold at an online auction. On June 23, 2015, Auctionata sold a rare enamel, ivory-mounted, and paste-set musical and automaton clock from the late 18th century for 3.37 million euros ($3,8 million) to the Shanghai-based billionaire and art collector Liu Yiqian. On September 25, 2015, Auctionata"
"books, 2,000 artist's materials and 70 drawings. Other categories include the artist's correspondence, magazines, newspapers and vinyl records. The Popes and large triptychs, in their time, commanded the highest prices at auction. By 1989 Bacon was the most expensive living artist after one of his triptychs sold at Sotheby's for over $6 million. In 2007, actress Sophia Loren consigned ""Study for Portrait II"" (1956) from the estate of her late husband Carlo Ponti at Christie's. It was auctioned for the then record price of £14.2 million ($27.5 million). On 14 May 2008, the ""Triptych, 1976"", sold at Sotheby's for €55.465"
"by famous artists—including a Pollock drip painting from David Geffen for $52 million and Damien Hirst's ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"", a piece that the artist had bought back from Charles Saatchi for $8 million. He has purchased some unusual art works. In 2006, Cohen remarked that repairing his suspended shark artwork (Hirst's ""Physical Impossiblity""), a cost estimated to be a minimum of $100,000, was an ""inconsequential"" expense. Since the original shark was over 10 years old, it had begun to rot. It was replaced with another shark in 2006. Cohen has also placed"
"being put up for auction in 2007. ""Put Down Your Whip"" was sold on 7 April 2007 in an auction in Hong Kong by Sotheby's for HK$72 million (US$9.2 million), setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at an auction. The painting was bought by an anonymous collector over the telephone after competition from at least four other bidders. In response to the auction, some art historians have criticized the explosion in the prices for Asian art, in particular over exuberant buyers for sending prices sky-high. Sotheby's Asia chairman Patti Wong, however, responded stating"
"and when inflation is ignored, the bronze also broke the record price for an art work sold at auction which, since 2004, was held at $104.2 million (then £58.2 m) by Pablo Picasso's ""Garçon à la pipe"". The most expensive work of art sold at a public auction remained Van Gogh's ""Portrait of Dr. Gachet"", which was bought in May 1990 for $82.5 million (approx. $138.4 million in CPI-adjusted 2010 US dollars), while Jackson Pollock's ""No. 5, 1948"", which was privately sold for $140 million in 2006 (approx. $151 million in 2010 dollars), remained the most expensive work of art"
"broke records when it was sold for $28.6 million. It became the most valuable sculpture ever sold at auction, breaking the 2005 record of $27.4 million for Constantin Brâncuși's ""Bird in Space"". The sale price has since been surpassed by several modern works, but the only other sculpture from antiquity to fetch a higher price is the Guennol Lioness. The winning bidder remained anonymous, employing art dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi to complete the auction. In January 2008 the sculpture was initially lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for six months, and it remains on display there as of 2017. Artemis"
"a record for the highest price paid for a piece of art with the purchase of a Jackson Pollock painting from David Geffen. Pollock's painting ""No. 5, 1948"" sold for US$140 million (£73m), on 1 November 2006. However, the auction expert Josh Baer stated that Martinez was not the buyer of the painting. In addition, Shearman & Sterling issued a press release on behalf of its client, David Martinez, to announce that contrary to articles in the press, Martinez does not own the painting or any rights to acquire it. In October 2012, however, the New York Times reported that"
"The painting was excitingly acquired in the autumn of 2004 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an estimated amount of 45 million USD. This is a highly valuable acquisition not only for the aesthetic significance in terms of the history of art, but also because there are only 13 known paintings by Duccio in the world. There is debate between scholars of what the most accurate chronology of Duccio’s ""Madonna and Child"" is. There is more than 20 years of time where scholars do not have accounted works by Duccio leaving a questionable, although fairly certain estimation of the"
"of the Swiss commodities trading firm Volkart Brothers. Before this sale, the artist's last record was set in 1990 when Sotheby's sold his ""Fugue"" (1914) for $20.9 million. On November 16, 2016 Christie's auctioned Kandinsky's ""Rigide et courbé (rigid and bent)"", a large 1935 abstract painting, for $23.3 million, a new record for Kandinsky. Solomon R. Guggenheim originally purchased the painting directly from the artist in 1936, but it was not exhibited after 1949, and was then sold at auction to a private collector in 1964 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The 1990 play ""Six Degrees of Separation"" refers"
"of prominent artists and art historians voted ""Fountain"" ""the most influential artwork of the 20th century"". 17 November 1999, a version of ""Fountain"" (owned by Arturo Schwarz) was sold at Sotheby's, New York, for $1,762,500 to Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who declared that ""Fountain"" represented the origin of contemporary art. The price set a world record, at the time, for a work by Marcel Duchamp at public auction. The record has since been surpassed by a work sold at Christie's Paris, titled ""Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette"" (1921). The readymade of a perfume bottle in its box sold for a record $11.5"
"($2.1 million). In 2007, his painting ""American Shipping off the Rock of Gibraltar"" auctioned at £2.71 million, ""more than four times its top estimate"". It was, ""the highest price paid at auction for Aivazovsky"" at the time. In April 2012, his 1856 work """" was sold at Sotheby's for a record $5.2 million (£3.2 million), a tenfold increase since it was last at an auction in 1995. In January 2011 a number of paintings, including those of Aivazovsky, were stolen from the country home of Aleksandr Tarantsev, an owner of a chain of jewelry stores in Russia. In June 2015"
"and to enrich people's spiritual and material life in our capital. The unit price: 9.5 yuan. Place of display: National Art Museum. Urgent for buying."" 2003 ""A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography"", Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic 2002 ""Made By Chinese"", Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris ""Chicago Art Fair"", Chicago 2001 ""Today No Water"", Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York 2000 ""Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s"", Walker Art Center 1999 ""Thing’s Right(s)"", Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Germany 1998 ""Inside Out – New Chinese Art"", New York, P.S 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York ""Vege-Pleasure"", Ingolfsstraeti 8 Gallery, The Reykjavik Art Festival 1998,"
"the world and whoever bought it should be congratulated."" The previous record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction had been held by Picasso's ""Nude, Green Leaves and Bust"", which went for US$106.5 million at Christie's two years prior on 4 May 2010. As of 2018, the pastel remains the fourth highest nominal price paid for a painting at auction. In the late twentieth century, ""The Scream"" was imitated, parodied, and (following its copyright expiration) outright copied, which led to it acquiring an iconic status in popular culture. It was used on the cover of some editions"
"sold for a world record $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York on 15 November 2017. The highest price previously paid for a work of art at auction was for Pablo Picasso's ""Les Femmes d'Alger"", which sold for $179.4 million in May 2015 at Christie's New York. The artist was featured in a number of solo exhibitions from 1948 to 1966, many in New York but also nationally and internationally. Specifically, he had fourteen separate exhibitions and even had two exhibitions per annum in the years 1953, 1964, and 1965. He was featured at the Egan Gallery, the"
"Bestseller. In his essay, Hans Ulrich Obrist states: ""What sets Sussman apart from other conceptual artists is that her research project is closely related to the research of a scientist...the Oldest Living Things is a category that is defined by curiosity, humane character, a fascination with deep time, and the courage of an explorer"" The book is currently in print in Complex and Simple Chinese, Korean, and German. Des Moines Art Center: Alchemy: Transformations in Gold. Sidewalk Kintsukuroi, acquisition. Feb 17 New Museum Los Gatos: New works by SETI Artists, Cosmic Microwave Mandala. Oct 16 – Mar 17 MASS MoCA:"
"for that year, selling at Sotheby's in New York City for just over US$60 million (surpassing his previous record of US$17 million set in 2000). In May 2018, his painting ""Suprematist Composition"" sold at Christie's New York for over US$85 million (including fees), a record auction price for a Russian work of art. Malevich's life inspires many references featuring events and the paintings as players. The smuggling of Malevich paintings out of Russia is a key to the plot line of writer Martin Cruz Smith's thriller ""Red Square"". Noah Charney's novel, ""The Art Thief"" tells the story of two stolen"
"they are numbered, as revealed by the inscriptions (see below) that Smith welded onto the base of each. Today, the majority of the ""Cubi"" works are part of well-known museum collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2005, ""Cubi XXVIII"" was sold at Sotheby's for $23.8 million, breaking a record for the most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold at auction. ""This exceedingly rare work was the pinnacle of a four-decade career,"" said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art"
"the Dies Natalis ISI Yogyakarta in 1997. He has participated in group exhibitions in Australia and the Netherlands, and in Indonesia: In Bali,Singapore,Jakarta, Mungkid (Mageland), Solo, Surabaya and Yogyakarta. Masriadi is one of Southeast Asia's most well-received contemporary artists at auction. Sotheby's (Hong Kong): Final Price HK$7,82 million, or US$1,000,725. The sale of this work, a triptych conveying the resolve of the human spirit, marked a record for a contemporary Southeast Asian art piece at auction. It sold for about five times its estimated price. This painstakingly rendered commentary on the art world and art practices of the 21st century"
"non-Western art; a large gallerist in the field has offices in both New York and Beijing, but clients mainly hailing from Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. One of the areas that has revived art concentration and also commercialized the industry is the 798 Art District in Dashanzi of Beijing. The artist Zhang Xiaogang sold a 1993 painting for US$2.3 million in 2006, which included blank faced Chinese families from the Cultural Revolution era, while Yue Minjun's work ""Execution"" in 2007 was sold for a then record of nearly $6 million at Sotheby's. Collectors including Stanley Ho, the owner"
"second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. An anonymous Russian bidder present at the New York auction won the work with a final bid of US$95,216,000, well exceeding the pre-auction US$50 million estimates. The identity of the bidder, who spent more than US$100 million in total, and purchased an 1883 Monet seascape and a 1978 Chagall in addition to the Picasso, was a topic of much speculation. Apparently a novice bidder, though possibly acting as an agent for a more well-known collector, the anonymous buyer may have been unknown at the start of the auction even to Sotheby's"
"and giving them concrete existence in sculptural form with works like ""A Thousand Years"". Hirst gained the European record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist—his ""Lullaby Spring"" in June 2007, when a 3-metre-wide steel cabinet with 6,136 pills sold for 19.2 million dollars to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar. In June 2007, ""Beyond Belief"", an exhibition of Hirst's new work, opened at the White Cube gallery in London. The centre-piece, a Memento Mori titled ""For the Love of God"", was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8,601 diamonds"
"institutional investors in the art market, has ranked Jasper Johns as the 30th most valuable artist in the world. The firm's index of the 1,000 most valuable works of art sold at auction—Skate's Top 1000—contains 7 works by Johns. In 1980 the Whitney Museum of American Art paid $1 million for ""Three Flags"" (1958), then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist. In 1988, Johns' ""False Start"" was sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for a work"
"a list highlighting a few other notable paintings: The gallery contains a variety of sculptures on the exterior grounds. Some of the most notable, from the past and the present, include: In 2007, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery deaccessioned a Roman-era bronze sculpture, ""Artemis and the Stag"", that was auctioned at Sotheby's New York on June 7, 2007, and brought $28.6 million. This was the highest price ever paid at auction for an antiquity or a sculpture of any period, according to Sotheby's. It was purchased by the London dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi on behalf of a private European collector. The event"
"Hufkens in Brussels. In 2017, Emin and Lehmann Maupin ended their working relationship. Charles Saatchi, who was best known as the most high-profile, high-spending collector of contemporary British art, bought ""My Bed"" (1998) for £150,000 ($248,000) from Lehmann Maupin's ""Every Part of Me's Bleeding,"" the exhibition that won the artist a nomination for the 1999 Turner Prize. In 2013, on the occasion of a Christie's London sale that raised a total of 3.1 million pounds ($5 million) in aid of the Saatchi Gallery's policy of free entry, ""To Meet My Past"" (2002) sold for $778,900, establishing a new record for"
"internationally and in domestic markets, some experts even fearing the market might be overheating. ""The Economist"" reported that Chinese art has become the latest darling in the world market according to the record sales from Sotheby's and Christie's, the biggest fine-art auction houses. Contemporary Chinese art saw record sales throughout the 2000s. In 2007, it was estimated that 5 of the world's 10 best selling living artists at art auction were from China, with artists such as Zhang Xiaogang whose works were sold for a total of $56.8 million at auction in 2007. In terms of buying-market, China overtook France"