Christie’s 2011 sales total US$5.7 billion; significant increase in private sales and via online

LONDON.- Christie’s announces 2011 sales of £3.6 billion / US$5.7 billion, up 9% by £ (14% by US$) compared with 2010 (figures include buyer’s premium). This includes private sales of £502 million / US$808.6 million, an increase of 44% by £ (50% by US$) on 2010. “Christie’s ability to curate and offer sales of art to a growing audience has led to continued demand across geographies, collecting categories and at all levels. This is a very encouraging set of results”, said Steven [...]

Christie’s New York, Post War and Contemporary art evening sale realizes $247,597,000

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, including the first part of the Peter Norton Collection, achieved $247,597,000 (£153,510,140/ €178,269,840) demonstrating the continuing appeal of this category among collectors worldwide. Thirty-three works sold for over the $1 million mark and 16 new world auction records were established for artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Louise Bourgeois, among others. In total, sell-through percentages were very strong, with 90% sold by lot and 87% by value. The top lot [...]

Christie’s shows off star New York Lots in newly renovated show rooms in central London

LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s is showing some of the prize lots coming up for sale in New York at an exhibition in London including a Degas sculpture valued at up to $35 million and a Lichtenstein picture worth as much as $45 million. The prices underline the belief among auction houses and some sellers that high-quality works which rarely come to market will continue to fetch top prices despite broader concerns over the global economy. Edgar Degas’ “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” [...]

Christie’s announces the auction of an exceptional selection of Pop Art masterpieces

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces the auction of an exceptional selection of Pop Art masterpieces at its Post-War and Contemporary Sale on November 8, 2011. The constellation of major works to be offered will include stars such as Roy Lichtenstein’s I Can See the Whole Room…and There’s Nobody in It!, Andy Warhol’s Silver Liz and Four Campbell’s Soup Cans and Gerhard Richter’s Frau Niepenberg. Works by all three of these artists have previously set world auction records at Christie’s, a leader in [...]

Museum Explores Relationship Between Two Iconic Painting Series by Monet and Lichtenstein

BOSTON, MA.- Claude Monet (1840–1926) painted 30 views of Rouen Cathedral from 1892 to 1895, captured at different times of the day and from various vantage points. Some 75 years later, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) approached the same subject with a fresh eye, one that reflected the bold and graphic sensibilities of another innovative style—pop art. These two visions confront each other in Monet/Lichtenstein: Rouen Cathedrals, which opens to the public on Sunday, July 3, at theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston. [...]

Exhibition: “Riches of a City: Portland Collects” Celebrates Arts Patronage in Portland

PORTLAND, OR.- Organized by the Portland Art Museum, the exhibition Riches of a City: Portland Collects celebrates arts patronage in Portland and the influence these collections have on the Museum. Opening on February 5, the exhibition features more than 230 objects from some 80 private collections in the city. The exhibition title references a quote from C.E.S. Wood, a founder of the Museum and arts patron: “Good citizens are the riches of a city.” For nearly a year, four of [...]

Seventy Impressive Black-and-White Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Albertina

VIENNA.- The 1960s marked a dramatic change of direction in the art of Roy Lichtenstein: while his earlier works consisted mainly of paintings of American history and the American West, in 1961 he turned to black-and-white drawings. Inspired by advertising and media illustrations as well as by comic strips, Lichtenstein created about seventy impressive black-and-white drawings between 1961 and 1968. These were completely new in terms of subject and style. In the same period, the artist also made numerous black-and-white [...]

Christie’s 2010 Global Art Sales Total $5.0 Billion, Highest Sales Total in History

LONDON.- Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, today announced worldwide sales for 2010 of £3.3 billion/$5.0 billion, up 53% by £ on last year’s figure of £2.1 billion (Figures include buyer’s premium). The highest sales total in the 245 year history of the firm, the figure is also the highest annual sales total ever recorded in the industry. Sales totals include private sales of £369.3 million/$572.4 million, an increase of 39% by £ on 2009 figures. In a year [...]

Lichtenstein Painting Originally Purchased for $27.50, Sells for $128,700 at Quinn’s

FALLS CHURCH, VA.- A 1951 painting by Roy Lichtenstein purchased for $27.50 and kept out of the public eye for nearly 50 years sold for $128,700 on Dec. 4 at Quinn’s Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia. Titled The Statesman, the 18 by 28 inch oil-on-canvas portrait was consigned by D.C.-area resident Enid Liess, a retired schoolteacher who, as a young girl had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was there that she learned how to identify quality [...]

Pop! Christie’s Sets New World Auction Record for Lichtenstein Achieving $42.6 Million

NEW YORK, NY.- The Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art realized $272,873,000/£169,181,260 /€199,197,290, selling 93% by lot and 92% by value. The sale had a pre-sale estimate of $239.2 to $348.6 million with 75 lots. Buyer geography by lot was 63% American, 20% European, 4% Asian, and 13% other. Marc Porter, Chairman of Christie’s Americas, commented: “We welcomed an enthusiastic response from the global collecting community this evening, giving Christie’s the week’s highest total for Post-War and Contemporary Art evening [...]

Fortnight of Sales at Christie’s Expected to Yield a Combined Total in Excess of $500 Million

NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Christie’s presents a spectacular line-up of fine art auctions, featuring the best examples of Impressionist & Modern and Post-War & Contemporary Art available on the auction market. Over the course of a fortnight, Christie’s will offer over 850 works of art, beginning with its major Evening Sale of 85 works of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3 and continuing with its Works on Paper and Day sales on November 4. The following Wednesday, November 10, Christie’s will [...]

Exceptional Public Exhibitions, Events and Auctions at Christie’s During Frieze Week

LONDON.- Christie’s will host an exciting series of public exhibitions, events and auctions from today until 18 October in London coinciding with the Frieze Art Fair. The leading highlights of the public exhibition are celebrated masterpieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter, none of which has been seen before in the UK. These works will be offered at the evening auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on 10 November 2010 and have a combined value [...]

The Morgan to Show Black-and-White Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein

NEW YORK, NY.- Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) has long been considered one of the key figures in the development of Pop Art. His signature brightly colored paintings are cornerstones of museum collections the world over. His subject matter drawn from visual fragments of popular culture is emblematic of an entire movement. An extraordinary new exhibition organized by The Morgan Library & Museum, opening September 24, presents an important series of large-scale, black-and-white works as a group for the first time and [...]

Art Fund Bets on Late Picassos, Pop Artist Robert Indiana

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Fund firm Castlestone Management is betting that late Picassos and paintings by U.S. pop artist Robert Indiana will help revive performance, after a tough first year in which its art fund fell more than 20 percent. The $20 million Collection of Modern Art fund, which holds 27 works including Andy Warhol’s “Five Guns” and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Nude in an Apartment,” owns Picasso’s 1967 crayon work “Adolescents, aigle et ane” which it bought last year for 220,000 pounds [...]

Roy Lichtenstein’s Art Car at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

TEL AVIV.- Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents an unusual exhibition: sixteen cars, representing the top design of cars in the 20th century. Car design is considered among the peaks of industrial design, and the designers of the exhibited cars are among the most famous European and American designers. Fifteen of the exhibited cars are fro Israeli collections, and one car is from the BMW collection in Berlin – the BMW 320i Art Car painted by Roy Lichtenstein. Commenting on [...]

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