"The Picasso Administration functions as his official Estate. The US copyright representative for the Picasso Administration is the Artists Rights Society. Picasso is played by Antonio Banderas in the 2018 season of ""Genius"", which focuses on his life and art. Several paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world. ""Garçon à la pipe"" sold for US$104 million at Sotheby's on 4 May 2004, establishing a new price record. ""Dora Maar au Chat"" sold for US$95.2 million at Sotheby's on 3 May 2006. On 4 May 2010, ""Nude, Green Leaves and Bust"" was sold at Christie's for"
"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)"""
"high US$55 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. The price topped Koons' previous record of US$33.7 million and the record for the most expensive living artist, held by Gerhard Richter, whose 1968 painting, ""Domplatz, Mailand"", sold for US$57.1 million at Sotheby's on May 14, 2013. ""Balloon Dog (Orange)"" was one of the first of the Balloon dogs to be fabricated, and had been acquired by Greenwich collector Peter Brant in the late 1990s. Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical"
"Nu couché Nu couché (also known in English as Red Nude or ""Reclining Nude"") is a 1917 oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. It is one of his most widely reproduced and exhibited paintings. The painting realized $170,405,000 at a Christie's New York sale on 9 November 2015, a record for a Modigliani painting and placing it high among the most expensive paintings ever sold. The purchaser was the Chinese businessman Liu Yiqian.. Liu is believed to have paid for the painting using his American Express card. The painting is one of a famous series of"
"of Art. This surpassed the 2007 record price for a Rothko work of $72.8 million set when David Rockefeller sold ""White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)"". The hammer price was $77.5 million, and the price was $86.8 million including buyer's premium. It established a new record for post-war/contemporary art at a public auction, when ignoring inflation. The highest price paid for a post-war painting in a private sale is believed to be $140 million (~$160 million in May 2012 dollars) for Jackson Pollock's ""No. 5, 1948"" in November 2006. In constant dollars, the record price for post-war art"
"No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) is a painting by the Russian-American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. It was painted in 1951. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, ""No. 6"" consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades. In 2014, it became one of the most expensive paintings sold at auction. ""No.6 (Violet, Green and Red)"" is one of the works implicated in the infamous Bouvier Affair. It was privately bought for €140 million by Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2014. Rybolovlev is thought to have bought the painting from"
"ten-foot wide, untitled black-and-white work from 1957 at Christie's, New York. The painting went to a telephone bidder for $36 million, or $40.4 million with fees (Christie’s guaranteed the seller Robert Mnuchin an undisclosed minimum), a record price for the artist at auction and more than six times the previous record, which was set in 2005 when Christie’s sold ""Crow Dancer"" (1958) for $6.4 million. An early work, ""UNTITLED"", from 1940 (of an interior room) was purchased from Sotheby's in 1995 by a private collector for $21,850. This early piece helps to define his early phase, before his transformation from"
"$106.5 million. The 1932 work, which depicts Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter reclining and as a bust, was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009. On 11 May 2015 his painting ""Women of Algiers"" set the record for the highest price ever paid for a painting when it sold for US$179.3 million at Christie's in New York. On 21 June 2016, a painting by Pablo Picasso titled ""Femme Assise"" (1909) sold for £43.2 million ($63.4 million) at Sotheby's London, exceeding the estimate by nearly $20 million, setting a world record for the"
"Botstein, at Carnegie Hall on 21 October 2011, performed three orchestral fugues written by Feininger. Barbara Haskell, curator of the Whitney exhibit, wrote that for his entire life, Feininger credited Bach with having been his ""master in painting."" At a 2001 Christie's auction in London, Feininger's painting ""The Green Bridge"" (1909) was sold for £2.42 million. At a 2017 Sotheby's auction in New York, Feininger's oil painting ""Fin de séance"" (1910) sold for $5,637,500. Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist"
"(1953) sold for $44,965,000. The painting had been part of the Schlumberger collection. In May 2014, ""Untitled (Red, Blue, Orange)"" (1955), which had been owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, sold for $56.2 million. In November 2014, a smaller Rothko painting in two shades of brown sold for $3.5 million, within its estimated range of $3 to 4 million. In May 2015, ""Untitled (Yellow and Blue)"" (1954) sold for $46.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. The painting was owned by Rachel Mellon. That month, ""No. 10"" (1958) sold for $81.9 million at a Christies's auction in New"
"man, became one of the most expensive works of art and the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction on February 2, 2010, when it sold for £65 million (US$104.3 million) at Sotheby's, London. ""Grande tête mince"", a large bronze bust, sold for $53.3 million just three months later. ""L'Homme au doigt"" (""Pointing Man"") sold for $126 million (£81,314,455.32), or $141.3 million with fees, in Christie's May 11, 2015 Looking Forward to the Past sale in New York, a record for a sculpture at auction. The work had been in the same private collection for 45 years. Giacometti created the"
"amount of interest. By that time, it set a new record for an Andy Warhol creation, being sold for $71.7 million, while the pre-auction estimate was $25 million. The record was broken in 2013, when another painting of the collection, the ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"" was sold for $105.4 million. Green Car Crash Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) is a painting by the American artist Andy Warhol. On May 16, 2007 at 7 P.M, it sold for $71.7m (£42.3m) at auction. ""Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)"" is one of the representative paintings of the Pop"
"the most expensive painting ever sold, setting a record which stood for two and a half years. Then it was sold for US$53.9 million to Alan Bond, but Bond did not have enough money to pay for it. ""Irises"" was later re-sold in 1990 to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. ""Irises"" is currently (as of 2012) tenth on the inflation-adjusted list of most expensive paintings ever sold and in 25th place if the effects of inflation are ignored. Irises (painting) Irises is one of several paintings of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and one"
"rather than a brush or roller. At Pierre Bergé & Associés in July 2009, Richter's 1979 oil painting ""Abstraktes Bild"" exceeded its estimate, selling for €95,000 ($136,000). Richter's ""Abstraktes Bild"", of 1990 was made the top price of 7.2 million pounds, or about $11.6 million, at a Sotheby's sale in February 2011 to a bidder who was said by dealers to be an agent for the New York dealer Larry Gagosian. In November 2011, Sotheby's sold a group of colorful abstract canvases by Richter, including ""Abstraktes Bild 849-3"", which made a record price for the artist at auction when Lily"
"sale and a record price for a Hockney. This was topped in 2016 when his ""Woldgate Woods"" landscape made £9.4 million at auction. The record was broken again in 2018 with the sale of ""Piscine de Medianoche"" (""Paper Pool 30)"" for $11.74 million and then doubled in the same Sotheby's auction when ""Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica"" sold for $28.5 million. On 15 November 2018, David Hockney’s 1972 painting ""Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)"" sold at Christie’s for $90.3 million with fees, surpassing the previous auction record for a living artist of $58.4 million, held by"
"by selling a bronze relief for $48.8 million in 2010, it was Gagosian that bought the work. Also, Gagosian Gallery purchased Ed Ruscha's ""Angry Because It’s Plaster, Not Milk"" (1965) for $3.2 million at Phillips de Pury in 2010, again establishing an auction record for that artist. Not long after joining Gagosian Gallery in 2003, the painter John Currin made his auction record of $847,500; his highest price before was a little over half that. In 2003, the Internal Revenue Service sued Larry Gagosian and three of his associates, accusing them of evading $26.5 million in taxes, interest and penalties"
"Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year. According to the catalogue description from the 2010 sale of the painting at Sotheby's, seven nudes were exhibited in the 1917 show. ""Nu couché"" realized $170,405,000 at a Christie's, New York, sale on 9 November 2015, a record for a Modigliani painting and placing it high among the most expensive paintings ever sold. On a trip to Nice which had been conceived and organized by Zborowski, Modigliani, Foujita and other artists tried to sell their works to rich tourists. Modigliani managed to sell a few pictures, but"
"$500,000 to $800,000. In 2010, Grotjahn's oil on linen painting ""Untitled (Lavender Butterfly Jacaranda over Green)"" (2004) was sold for $1,5 million against its presale estimate of $500–700,000 at Christie's New York. At Sotheby's New York in May 2015, one bidder paid $6.5 million for Grotjahn’s abstracted face painting, ""Untitled (Into and Behind the Green Eyes of the Tiger Monkey Face 43.18)"" (2011), against a high estimate of $3 million. On May 17, 2017 a new price record was set for a Grotjahn work at auction when “Untitled (S III Released to France Face 43.14)” was sold for $16.8 million"
"at Christie's in London, almost double the estimate of £18 to £24 million. In May 2010, it was announced that the 1906 ""Nymphéas"" work would be auctioned in London in June 2010. The painting had an estimated sale price of between £30 and £40 million. Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christie's auction house director and head of impressionist and modern art, said, ""Claude Monet's water-lily paintings are amongst the most recognised and celebrated works of the 20th Century and were hugely influential to many of the following generations of artists."" The sale took place on 23 June 2010 at the auction house and"
"major work of 1950s abstract expressionism, and its significance in Australian politics and history. Estimates of the painting's present value vary widely, from $100 million to $350 million, but its increased value has at least shown it to have been a worthwhile purchase from a financial point of view. Blue Poles Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952 is an abstract expressionist painting and one of the most famous works by American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the gallery's major paintings. At the"
"1948 painting ""No. 5, 1948"" from his collection for $140 million (£73.35 million) to Mexican financier David Martinez. Martinez is the founder of London-based Fintech Advisory Ltd, a financial house that specializes in buying Third World debt. The sale made ""No. 5, 1948"" the most expensive painting ever sold (outstripping the $134 million paid in October 2006 for Gustav Klimt's portrait ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,"" purchased by cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder). Wealth-X reported in June 2013 that Geffen owns the most valuable private art collection in the world, and estimated its worth at $1.1B at the time. In February"
"of $58 million for Jeff Koons' ""Balloon Dog (Orange)"" in 2013 and more than tripled the record for a work by Hockney, $28.5 million for ""Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica"" set in May 2018. The highest known prices for a painting by a living artist in private sales are for two paintings by Jasper Johns (born 1930): in 2006, Kenneth C. Griffin bought Johns' ""False Start"" for about $80 million ($ million in ) from David Geffen, and in 2010 Steven A. Cohen bought Johns' 1958 ""Flag"" for around $110 million (equivalent to $ million in ) from Leo"
"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"
"most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of $140,000,000. Another artist record was established in 2004, when ""No. 12"" (1949), a medium-sized drip painting that had been shown in the United States Pavilion at the 1950 Venice Biennale, fetched $11.7 million at Christie's, New York. In 2012, ""Number 28, 1951,"" one of the artist's combinations of drip and brushwork in shades of silvery gray with red, yellow, and shots of blue and white, also sold at Christie's, New York, for $20.5 million—$23 million with fees—within its estimated range of $20 million to"
"(121.9 x 121.9 cm.). Signed and dated ‘rf Lichtenstein '64’ (on the reverse). Nurse (Lichtenstein) Nurse is a painting by American pop art painter Roy Lichtenstein made in 1964. ""Nurse"" was at one time the 34th most expensive painting ever sold, purchased in November 9, 2015, by an anonymous buyer for $95,365,000, the then-record price for a piece by an American pop art painter. It had previously sold at auction in 1995 for $1.7 million. Christie's, the auction house involved for the sale, called ""Nurse"" ""a quintessential Lichtenstein heroine"" and stated that the subject was taken from a 1960s comic"
"the world by surpassing Tomas Sanchez, who previously held the record at $540,000. (Source: Artprice.com™ database) On December 15, 2015, a painting by Josignacio titled ""The key of Success"", dated 2011, was sold for a hammer price of $475,000 USD at Miami Auction Gallery in Miami, FL. On March 10, 2016, a painting by Josignacio titled ""Music is Timeless"", dated 1989, was sold for a hammer price of $3,481,205 USD at McCarthy-Williams Auctions in London. This painting is now the most expensive painting in the world by a living Latin artist (as well as a living Cuban artist). On July"
"The Philadelphia Museum of Art holds the largest collection of Brâncuși sculptures in the United States. In 2015 the Romanian Parliament declared February 19 ""The Brâncuși Day"", a working holiday in Romania. Brâncuși's piece ""Madame L.R."" sold for €29.185 million ($37.2 million) in 2009, setting a record price for a sculpture sold at auction. In May 2018, ""La Jeune Fille Sophistiquée"" (""Portrait de Nancy Cunard""), a polished bronze on a carved marble base (1932), sold for US$71 million (with fees) at Christie's New York, setting a world record auction price for the artist. Both ""Bird in Space"" and ""Sleeping Muse"
"Dix, and George Grosz. In 2006, Lauder purchased Klimt's painting ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"" from Maria Altmann on behalf of the Neue Galerie. Citing a confidentiality agreement, Lauder would only confirm that the purchase price was more than the last record price of US$104.2 million US for Picasso's 1905 ""Boy With a Pipe"". The press reported the price for the Klimt at US$135 million, which would make it at that time the most expensive painting ever sold. It has been on display at the museum since July 2006. The museum is housed in the former William Starr Miller House,"
"to be the most powerful of all his pictures"", Kelly Crow of ""The Wall Street Journal"" stated that ""The painting's trio of orange and yellow rectangles bobbing atop a cherry-red background forms a palette that's as eye-catching as a sunset or a Popsicle."", noting that ""Auction specialists say collectors historically pay more for works that are red and gold, as opposed to gray."" Orange, Red, Yellow Orange, Red, Yellow is a 1961 Color Field painting by Mark Rothko. On May 8, 2012, it was sold at Christie's from the estate of David Pincus for $86,882,500, a record nominal price for"
"highest price ever paid at auction for a Cubist work. On 17 May 2017, ""The Jerusalem Post"" in an article titled ""Picasso Work Stolen By Nazis Sells for $45 Million at Auction"" reported the sale of a portrait painted by Picasso, the 1939 ""Femme assise, robe bleu"", which was previously misappropriated during the early years of WWII. The painting has changed hands several times since its recovery, most recently through auction in May 2017 at Christie's in New York City. In March 2018 his ""Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée"" (1937), a portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, sold for"
"body ""It's flesh without muscle and it has developed a different kind of texture through bearing such a weight-bearing thing"". The painting held the world record for the highest price paid for a painting by a living artist when it was sold by Guy Naggar for US$33.6 million (£17.2 million) at Christie's in New York in May 2008 to Roman Abramovich. Freud's painting ""Benefits Supervisor Resting"" was sold for £35.8million ($56.2million) in 2015, four years after his death, replacing ""Benefits Supervisor Sleeping"" as the most expensive Freud painting sold at auction.<br> The painting was exhibited twice at Flowers Gallery:<br> Benefits"
"1980. Williams won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting twice; in 1966 with ""Upwey Landscape"" and in 1976 with ""Mt. Kosciusko"". His painting ""Upwey Landscape"" (1965) sold for $1,987,700 in one of the final auctions of Christie's in Australia in April 2006, which at the time was the second highest price for any work sold at an Australian auction. In September 2007, auction house Deutscher-Menzies broke their sales record with Williams' ""Landscape with Water Ponds"" (1965) selling for $1,860,000. The most expensive work sold at an Australian auction in 2009 was Williams' 1965 ""Evening Sky, Upwey"", which sold for $1.15"
"Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier is a painting created circa 1893 to 1894 by French artist Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906). It is considered the most expensive still life ever sold at an auction. Cézanne was famous for painting still lifes which expressed complex emotions while still being based upon carefully observed reality. Paintings of this type would eventually lead to the creation of new art styles during the 20th century such as Cubism. The painting went through the possession of Paris dealer Ambroise Vollard, Cornelis Hoogendijk, Paul Rosenberg, Albert C. Barnes, and"