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NEW YORK -- A new record for one of pop art superstar Andy Warhol’s paintings was set late Wednesday, when a telephone bidding war raised the price to a whopping $105 million. The prized eight ...
The record price for postwar art was broken twice at a Sotheby’s auction Tuesday, first with a Francis Bacon work and later with a Mark Rothko painting, which went for almost $73 million ...
That would top the current record, set in November by ... Pilar Ordovas, head of contemporary art at Christie’s in London, said the painting is coveted because it is the first from a series ...
“I’ve never thought as myself as a card-carrying Pop artist,” Thiebaud ... sold for $486,400 at Christie’s. The record for the artist’s pie paintings is the $4 million paid in 2011 ...
A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living ...
An Antiques Roadshow guest received a staggering 6-figure valuation for a forgotten Andy Warhol painting given to her ... became a leading figure in the pop art movement during the 1960s.
His auction record, also for a Black Painting ... and affecting the development of Colour Field painting, Minimalism and arguably even Pop art. “It was the most groundbreaking body of work ...