Klimt painting sold for record $135 million Yahoo! News June 18, 2006 “WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased by cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest amount ever paid for a painting, The New...
Record price paid for African mask June 17, 2006 AFP “PARIS (AFP) – A Gabonese tribal mask was sold at auction here Saturday for 5.9 million euros (7.5 million dollars, including fees), a record price for tribal art. The 48-centimetre (19-inch) wooden Ngil...
Forbes.com via ArtFact reports on the following new record for a Norman Rockwell painting: A Rockwell Record Forbes.com Julie Carlson, Artfact.com 05.31.06 “In the lead-up to Memorial Day remembrances, a patriotic Norman Rockwell work titled “Homecoming...
Group of Seven painting sells for $1.1 million CTV.ca Canadian Press May 29, 2006 “TORONTO — A striking abstract scene by Group of Seven member Lawren Harris sold for nearly $1.1 million at auction Monday, roughly one year after being rescued from a...
Man Ray Light Bulb Fetches Record $439,400 at London Photo Sale Bloomberg.com: U.K. “May 19 (Bloomberg) — New York photography dealer Howard Greenberg paid 232,000 pounds ($439,400) for a Man Ray image of a light bulb at a London auction this week, setting...
Rare Shirt Forbes.com Julie Carlson, Artfact.com 05.11.06, 12:30 AM ET “Perfectly preserved in the attic of a Scottish castle for the past 150 years, a Blackfoot man’s beaded hide shirt drummed up $800,000–a world-record price for a Native American...
Lichtenstein, de Kooning paintings sell for $15.7 million in New York Canadian Press Published: Thursday, May 11, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) – Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s Sinking Sun and Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XVI have both sold for almost $15.7...
Broad Buys Warhol ‘Soup Can’ in $143 Million Christie’s Auction Bloomberg.com: Canada May 10, 2006 Lindsay Pollock Philip Boroff “May 10 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire collector Eli Broad paid $11.8 million last night for Andy Warhol’s...
Western officials to vie for aboriginal artifacts at auction Thu, 04 May 2006 CBC Arts “Western Canadian museum officials and historians have expressed alarm at an upcoming New York auction. A Sotheby’s auction of aboriginal art and artifacts collected...
Vase sold for record 160mil yuan thestar.com.my Thursday April 20, 2006 “BEIJING: A Chinese entrepreneur paid 160mil yuan (US $20 Million) at an auction for an eighth-century white porcelain vase, a new record for antiquities in China, state television and an...