Share: Source – Artdaily.org LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place at Christie’s this evening and realized $91,210,543. The top price of the evening was paid for Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which sold at this evening sale for […]
Share:By Souren Melikian Published: January 9, 2009 LONDON: A new order is emerging in the art market and, in startling contrast to the broader economy, this calls for a celebration. That art would follow a separate course in the current global crisis was bound to happen because a fundamental characteristic singles it out among all […]
Share:By Stephen Adams The stratospheric state of the global art market has been underlined by figures that show last month’s ‘Monet’ auction at Christie’s in London was the most lucrative in European history. The sale of Monet’s Le bassin aux nymphéas doubled the previous record for a work by the Impressionist artist Despite the global […]
Share:London – Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place this evening (24 June 2008) and realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 – the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which realised £40,921,250 […]
