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An art auction in Newton, Massachusetts, USA (Tremont Auctions) Sotheby's New York City headquarters on York Avenue Christie's New York City headquarters in Rockefeller Center An art auction or fine art auction is the sale of art works , in most cases in an auction house .
Parke-Bernet Galleries was an American auction house, active from 1937 to 1964, when Sotheby's purchased it. The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift.
The rest of Sotheby’s Wednesday auction is arguably more indicative of the art market’s doldrums: Sotheby’s “Now” portion of the evening, which showcases art produced in the last 20 ...
Sotheby's, New York [5] $42 $28.6 Artemis and the Stag: Unknown c.100 BC – 100 AD 7 June 2007: Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Private collection Sotheby's, New York [4] $36.3 $28.2 Popeye: Jeff Koons: 2009 - 2011 14 May 2014: Sotheby's, New York [29] $42.9 $27.5 Bird in Space: Constantin Brâncuși: 1922–1923 5 May 2005: Private collection ...
Between his start at Sotheby's and the mid-1990s, Redden created numerous new auction categories for the company, including the specialty categories such as “space-memorabilia”, [6] “baseball memorabilia, comic books, arcade machines, and computerized animation art.” [4] Early in his career, in the late 1970s, he was appointed the ...
The 64 by 90.5 inch mixed-media painting was created by Ai-Da earlier this year, and is currently estimated by Sotheby's to fetch $120,000-$180,000 at the auction, which opens on Oct. 31.
It was sold to Japanese businessman and art collector Yusaku Maezawa for $57.3 million at Christie's post-war and contemporary art evening auction in May 2016. It was the most expensive Basquiat painting sold at auction until Maezawa purchased Untitled (1982) for $110.5 million at Sotheby's in May 2017. [ 7 ]
In 1980, after a drop in sales, [68] Sotheby's relocated its North American headquarters from Madison Avenue to a former cigar factory [38] at 1334 York Avenue, New York. In 1982, the auction house closed its Madison Avenue galleries at East 76th Street, and its Los Angeles galleries were sold and West Coast auctions moved to New York. [69]