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The sale of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was the first time a "modern" (in this case 1888) painting became the record holder. Old master paintings had previously dominated the market. [ 3 ] In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874.
On 7 July 2016, the highest price ever sold for an old master painting at Christie's was achieved with £44,882,500 for Rubens' Lot and his Daughters. [79] [80] On 11 November 2017, a Patek Philippe Titanium wristwatch Ref. 5208T-010 was sold for $6.226M (CHF6,200,000) in Geneva, making it one of the most expensive watches ever sold at auction.
In 2004, he led the private treaty sale of Duccio’s Stroganoff Madonna to the Metropolitan Museum of Art [8] [9] in New York City for a record sum, then the highest price ever paid by the Met for any purchase, the second highest price ever paid for an Old Master privately and the most expensive Old Master ever sold by Christie's, breaking the ...
Canvas, height, 72 cm; width, 90 cm. Old frame, in carved and gilded wood, from the Régence period. [12] The Mühlbacher version was sold again at auction on 31 January 2024 by Christie’s in New York, Old Master Sale, lot 67, for US$756,000. [13] The composition of this painting is known in three versions.
However, most of Panshanger's contents, including the Holy Conversation, were auctioned at Christie's in 1954. In 1956, Heinz Kisters, a German businessman living in Switzerland, acquired the painting from the New York art dealers who had purchased the painting at the Christie's auction. When he died in 1977, the painting became the property of ...
These works, together with other works from Kisters' possession, were put up for auction at Christie's in London. The 36 paintings for sale were expected to fetch 6 million D-marks, but only 5 of them were sold for a sum of 156,000 D-marks. [10] Individual works, however, were later auctioned off at higher prices.
The high-end art market seems to be a great option for investment these days. On Tuesday, Vincent Van Gogh's painting, L'Allée des Alyscamps sold at a Sotheby's auction for $66.3 million to a ...
The sale was the first time Christie's had used an outside agency to advertise an artwork. Approximately 4,500 people stood in line to preview the work in New York the weekend prior to the sale. [134] The sensationalism of the painting following the sale led to it being a common subject in popular culture and discourse online.