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Showing posts with label Art Artists Picasso. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

New York Times News Alert: Picasso Sells at Auction for $106.5 Million, a Record for an Artwork

New York Times News Alert: Picasso Sells at Auction for $106.5 Million, a Record for an Artwork

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Tue, May 04, 2010 -- 7:55 PM ET
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Picasso Sells at Auction for $106.5 Million, a Record for an Artwork

A painting that Picasso created in a single day in March
1932, "Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and
Bust)," sold for $106.5 million, a world record auction price
for a work of art, at Christie's Tuesday night. Bidding for
the Picasso lasted 8 minutes and 6 seconds; there were six
bidders.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Christie's to Offer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Picasso Masterpiece from His Blue Period


Christie's to Offer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Picasso Masterpiece from His Blue Period

March 18, 2010 Labels: Art Artists, Art Artists Picasso http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/christies-to-offer-andrew-lloyd-webbers.html http://tinyurl.com/yhw9u5d http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/309623.html

Giovanna Bertazzoni, Head of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's, London looks over Picasso's 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker), 1903. EPA/ANDY RAIN. Christie's to Offer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Picasso Masterpiece from His Blue Period http://tinyurl.com/yhw9u5d Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/19d6d2

LONDON.- Christie’s announced that they will offer an exceptionally important and highly celebrated masterpiece by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on 23 June 2010.

Painted by the most influential artist of the 20th century, Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, 1903 comes from the artist’s celebrated Blue Period, arguably the greatest period in Picasso’s career.

The painting will be priced at £30 million to £40 million and all the proceeds will benefit The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, a charity founded by the celebrated composer in 1992. Working for the public benefit, The Foundation focuses on the promotion of arts, culture and heritage in Britain.

The painting had been consigned for sale at Christie’s in New York in November 2006 but was withdrawn from the auction at the request of the vendor after an 11th hour ownership challenge based on a sal ...
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March 18, 2010

Christie's to Offer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Picasso Masterpiece from His Blue Period

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David Zwirner Presents First Exhibition by Marlene Dumas with the Gallery

Director Paul Schrader Donates Collection to Harry Ransom Center

Trustees of the Reina Sofia Museum Agree Not to Move Picasso's Guernica

Paintings by Lawrence and Park Enter Museums of San Francisco Collection

Christie's Brings in the Bids as Art Market Shows Signs of Life

Auction of the World's Largest Collection of Original Vintage Glamour Photography

Property from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Z. Wick to Highlight March Auction

Dutch Police Arrest 2 Suspects Involved in 2009 Art Heist

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Opens Third Alex Couwenberg Exhibition

Reagan 'GE Theater' Tapes Restored, Go to Presidential Library

Pierre Huyghe's La saison des fetes at Museo Reina Sofia

Powerful Images of Contemporary Icons by Mark Evans at Scream Gallery

Rotation at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Features Seminal Chinese Painting

Delaware Art Museum Presents on Assignment: American Illustration, 1850-1950

FBI in Florida Recovers Stolen Painting by Juan Gris

South Carolina Museum Rejects Monument to Mark Secession

Random House Publisher Services to Handle Sales and Distribution for Smithsonian Books

Auctioneer Plans $15 Million Emerging Nations Sale

20100318 Christies to sell Picasso 1903 Absinthe Drinker

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