Pollock Sells for $181M at Christie's Newhouse Auction
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A Monumental Pollock and a Miniature Brancusi Each Sell for Over $100 Million
A blockbuster Newhouse estate sale signals renewed confidence at the top of the art market, with works by abstract painter and sculptor leading a night of records for Mark Rothko, Joan Miro and more
The work of Constantin Brâncuşi in 1913 was sold in auction in New York for more than $107 million, a record for an opera by the Romanian sculptor and an unprecedented amount for a sculpture, according to the American dealers and press. To date, the work "La Jeune fille sophisticée" held the record for ...
S.I. Newhouse’s 11-Foot-Wide Jackson Pollock Drip Painting Sells for Record-Breaking $181.2 M.
A Jackson Pollock painting formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, once one of the world’s most formidable art collectors, sold at Christie’s on Monday night for a hammer price of $157 million, breaking the Abstract Expressionist artist’s auction record. With fees, the total was brought to $181.2 million. That number officially makes the Pollock one of the most expensive artworks ever auctioned. The work started with a $82 million bi…
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