“Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud”, painted in 1933 by Valentine Hugo, was sold yesterday 8 March at Bonhams London for £1.04 million ($1,4 million), a record price for this surrealist painter. On the same day, Bruun Rasmussen sold a portrait of Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo sex-change surgery.
Two works by David Hockney and Cecily Brown were the highlights of Phillips’ auction of modern and contemporary art, with the auction house donating 100% of its commission to the Ukrainian Red Cross.
The modern and contemporary art auction at Sotheby’s London on 2 March 2022 was led by René Magritte’s “L’Empire des Lumières”, which fetched the second highest price ever paid for a painting at auction in Europe.
Christie’s global auction of 20th and 21st century art in Shanghai and London on 1 March 2022 was led by works by Franz Marc and Francis Bacon, but the real winners were a group of less established artists who achieved much higher prices than expected.
Phillips has announced that it will auction “Untitled (Devil)” -one of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s most important paintings- in New York next May.
Christie’s has announced that it will auction “Champs près des Alpilles” -painted by Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy in November 1889- in New York next May.
A self-portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat and a mythological painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder are among several works announced by Christie’s for its spring and summer auctions.
ARCOmadrid 2022 returns to its usual dates and pays tribute to the galleries that have accompanied it during its four decades of existence.
Following the successful auction last November, in which all the works on offer found a buyer, Sotheby’s will organise the second part of the Macklowe Collection auction next May.
Glenstone, the private museum founded by collectors Mitchell Rales and Emily Wei Rales, has announced the acquisition of a major series of works by Hilma af Klint, the enigmatic pioneer of abstraction, which will be the first works by the artist in an American museum.
