"This painting was part of his ""Death and Disaster"" series. The art masterpiece was held by a European collector for 20 years. In November 2013, five bidders fought for the serigraph in an auction of contemporary art works organized by Sotheby's, bringing the price to $105 million. The name of the winner was never disclosed to the public. The final price was above the expectations of the organizers, because the serigraph was estimated at $60–80 million. The price broke the previous record paid for a Warhol serigraph, $100 million paid for ""Eight Elvises"". Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) Silver Car"
"on it, known as ""Double Elvis"", only one piece titled ""Eight Elvises"" was created. In 2008 ""Eight Elvises"" was sold by Annibale Berlingieri, who had owned it for 40 years, in a private sale for $100 million to an unidentified collector. News of the sale, which was not announced publicly at the time, was broken by art writer Sarah Thornton and published in ""The Economist"" in late 2009. The deal was brokered by Philippe Ségalot, a New York-based art dealer and one time head of the contemporary art department at Christie's auction house. The sale made ""Eight Elvises"" one of"
"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"
"eleven times"", 1963, the largest Elvis by Warhol in existence, as well as being a unique piece, currently located at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA ix) ""Campbell' s Elvis"", 1962, Warhol's first painting in which he superimposed two images onto a single canvas, auctioned at Christie's on 10 November 2010 for US$1.45 million. x) ""Gold (en) Boot (Slippers) Elvis Presley"", 1957. Currently in the private collection of actor Tom Lacy of the NBC TV series Law & Order xi) ""Red Elvis,"" 1962, bought privately in February 2000, for US$2.9 million and later adjudicated, after a Connecticut Superior Court"
"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"
"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"
"sold in 2013 for $142 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold. Deakin's photos of Freud also inspired a series of paintings by Jasper Johns, ""Jasper Johns: Regrets"", which were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014. Freud and Bacon appeared as two of the ""Eight Portraits"", an unpublished manuscript of photos and writings which was discovered after Deakin's death. In this work, Deakin wrote of Bacon: ""He's an odd one, wonderfully tender and generous by nature, yet with curious streaks of cruelty, especially to friends. I think that in this portrait I managed"
"Triple Elvis Triple Elvis is a 1963 painting of Elvis Presley by the American artist Andy Warhol. The photographic image of Elvis used by Warhol as a basis for this work, taken from a publicity still from the movie ""Flaming Star"", has become iconic and synonymous with the singer. Triple Elvis was sold for $81.9m (£51.9m) at a Christie's auction in New York in November 2014. Other paintings of the same subject by Warhol show Elvis repeated a number of times, such as in the silkscreen painting ""Double Elvis"", which reproduces the second image, almost as a shadow, owned by"
"use in the film, and had kept it in her home after production ended. The painting was sold at auction in Budapest on December 13, 2014 for €229,500. Róbert Berény Róbert Berény (1887 – 1953 in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter, one of the ""avant-garde"" group known as The Eight who introduced cubism and expressionism to Hungarian art in the early twentieth century before the First World War. He had studied and exhibited in Paris as a young man and was also considered one of the Hungarian ""Fauves."" Róbert Berény was born in Budapest in 1887. As a young man"
"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"
"estimated to sell for between £12 and £18 million, but in just eight minutes the sculpture was bought by Lily Safra, widow of the prominent Lebanese banker Edmond Safra for £58 million. Including the buyer's premium the price reached £65 million (US$103.7 million). The piece broke the record for a Giacometti work at auction, which was set at $27.5 million by ""Grande Femme Debout II"" in 2008, and that for the most expensive sculpture sold at a public auction, which was held by the 5000-year-old ""Guennol Lioness"", sold at Sotheby's in 2007 for $57.2 m. When expressed in British pounds"
"the latter including a 1963 ""Single Elvis"". In this regard, he told Jeffrey Fleishman, who interviewed him and his wife Edye inside the museum for the LA Times on August 22, 2015 that it was precisely his having acquired that ""Single Elvis"" which sent the price of pop art to levels that were previously unheard of. Other quite notable installations include Yayoi Kusama's ""Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away"" (2013), Ragnar Kjartansson's expansive nine-screen video ""The Visitors"" (2012), Julie Mehretu's 24-feet-wide canvas ""Beloved (Cairo)"" (2013), and Goshka Macuga's photo-tapestry ""Death of Marxism, Women of"
"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"
"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)"""
"Examples of Turk's silkscreen works on canvas are Yellow Diamond Elvis, 2005, and Pink Diamond Elvis, 2005. Triple Elvis Triple Elvis is a 1963 painting of Elvis Presley by the American artist Andy Warhol. The photographic image of Elvis used by Warhol as a basis for this work, taken from a publicity still from the movie ""Flaming Star"", has become iconic and synonymous with the singer. Triple Elvis was sold for $81.9m (£51.9m) at a Christie's auction in New York in November 2014. Other paintings of the same subject by Warhol show Elvis repeated a number of times, such as"
"2018 equivalent). It was acquired in 1983 by the American billionaire David Geffen, who sold it to British billionaire Joe Lewis in 1995 at an undisclosed price. It was included in the Hockney exhibition, which toured the Tate Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou from February 2017 to February 2018. On 15 November 2018, in nine minutes of bidding, it was sold to an unknown buyer for $90.3 million at Christie's auction house in New York City, setting an auction record for a living artist. The sale broke the previous record for a living artist"
"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"
"than 2,600 pieces, was considered the most comprehensive ever assembled at the time of their death. During their lifetimes, much of their collection of Naïve art was donated to museums, including the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, and Flint Institute of Arts. A smaller collection of paintings, including Picasso's ""Seated Acrobat with Folded Arms,"" was sold at auction in May 1980 for $14.8 million—then a record for any auction in the United States. Edgar Garbisch Edgar William Garbisch (April 7, 1899 – December 13, 1979)"
"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"
"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"
"""Untitled"" (1982), a powerful depiction of a skull, at auction for a record-setting US$110,487,500—the most ever paid for an American artwork and the sixth most expensive artwork sold at an auction, surpassing Andy Warhol's ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"" which sold in 2013 for $105 million. The Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat was formed by the gallery that was assigned to handle the artist's estate. Between 1994 and 2012, it reviewed over 2,000 works of art; the cost of the committee's opinion was $100. The committee was headed by Gérard Basquiat. Members and advisers varied depending on"
"2008, the painting ""Vampire"" set a new record for his paintings when it was sold for US$38,162,000 at Sotheby's New York. Munch's image appears on the Norwegian 1,000-kroner note, along with pictures inspired by his artwork. In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, ""Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye"", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway. In May 2012, ""The Scream"" sold for US$119.9 million, and is the second most expensive artwork ever sold at an open auction. (It was surpassed in November 2013 by ""Three Studies of Lucian Freud"", which sold"
"in the collection of the Berlin bank president Jakob Goldschmidt. Goldschmidt immigrated to New York City in 1936, taking his collection with him, and died there in 1955. In 1958 the painting was bought by J. Summers for 65,000. Later the collector couple John and Frances L. Loeb from New York acquired the painting for $176,800. At the auction of the Loeb collection on 12 May 1997 the painting was sold for $18.7 million to an anonymous bidder. At that time it was the second highest price ever paid for a work by Manet. Shortly thereafter the new owner was"
"Abstraktes Bild (809-1) Abstraktes Bild (809-1) is a 1994 painting by the Dresden-born artist Gerhard Richter. In the top-ten list of the most expensive paintings by Richter it occupied 6th place in 2013. ""Abstraktes Bild (809-1)"" is the first from a series of four paintings. ""Abstraktes Bild (809-3)"" is in the collection of the Tate Gallery. When Eric Clapton brought ""Abstraktes Bild (809-4)"" to auction at Christie's in 2013, it sold for At the same auction, ""Abstraktes Bild (809-2)"" sold for . The painting was first shown at the exhbition ""Gerhard Richter: Painting in the Nineties"" at the Anthony d’Offay"
"expensive photograph in the world when it was auctioned at Sotheby's on February 7, 2007, for a price of US$3.34 million. Another auction in New York in May 2006 fetched $2.25 million for a second print, and a third print sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery. These would be the fourth and sixth-most costly photographs sold, as of 2011. On May 12, 2011, Cindy Sherman's ""Untitled #96"" from 1981 was sold for $3.89 million. 99 Cent II Diptychon The artwork 99 Cent II Diptychon from 2001 is a two-part photograph made by Andreas Gursky"
"$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"
"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"
"Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa (; or La Gioconda , ) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as ""the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"". The ""Mona Lisa"" is also one of the most valuable paintings in the world. It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation in history at $100 million in 1962, which is worth nearly $800 million in 2017. The painting is thought to be a"
"York at the May Post-War and Contemporary evening sale in Christie's, fetched $38.4 million. On May 9, 2012, his classic painting ""Double Elvis (Ferus Type)"" sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York for US$33 million. With commission, the sale price totaled US$37,042,500, short of the $50 million that Sotheby's had predicted the painting might bring. The piece (silkscreen ink and spray paint on canvas) shows Elvis Presley in a gunslinger pose. It was first exhibited in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Warhol made 22 versions of the ""Double Elvis"", nine of which are held in museums."
"It was shown at various expositions, mostly in Europe. After an extended legal battle over the painting's ownership, which endured for 17 years, the painting was returned to heirs of the artist. A few months later, in November 2008, the artist's heirs sold it at a Sotheby's auction for $60 million to the Nahmad family . In 2018 it was sold at a Christie's auction for $85.8 million with fees to art dealer Brett Gorvy . It is the most expensive work in the history of Russian art . Suprematist Composition Suprematist Composition (blue rectangle over the red beam) is"
"the financial markets during the 2008 crisis. Backed by members of the Al Thani family, the art-dealers collective GPS Partners purchased $400m of paintings and sculptures dating mainly from the 1960s on behalf of private clients. This first cache is said to have included Jeff Koons’s 1986 sculpture ""Rabbit"", which has been valued in excess of $80 million, as well as Roy Lichtenstein’s cartoon painting ""Eddie Diptych"" (1962), Cy Twombly’s abstract ""Blue Room"" (1957) and Andy Warhol’s ""Silver Disaster"" (1963), one of the artist’s paintings of an electric chair. The second transaction, a selection of paintings by Warhol, was sold"
"not paint things as they are ... [T]hey paint them as ""they themselves"" feel them to be."" Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings. Those sold for over US$100 million (today's equivalent) include ""Portrait of Dr Gachet"","" "" and ""Irises"". The Metropolitan Museum of Art's version of ""Wheat Field with Cypresses"" was acquired in 1993 for US$57 million. In 2015 ""L'Allée des Alyscamps"" sold for US$66.3 million at Sotheby's, New York, exceeding its reserve of US$40 million. Van Gogh's nephew and namesake, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1890–1978), inherited the estate after his mother's death in 1925. During"
"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"