Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson, 1984, 76.2 x 66 cm, technicolor silkscreen Commissioned to celebrate the success of Thriller, a portrait of Michael Jackson painted by Andy Warhol goes to auction later this August in New York. From 1984, when both artists were at their peak, ...
One of the three paintings to be sold for over the one-million mark, Emily Carr‘s Wind in The Tree, circa 1939, went for a record $2,164,5000 on Heffel’s auction last night (June 17) at Vancouver Convention Centre. David Heffel, on the auction brochure: “I think ...
Entertaining and insightful, Collecting Contemporary, by Adam Lindeman is the book you should buy to get in tune with how the international art market works. Made entirely of interviews and divided in chapters dedicated to the main actors in play (the Dealer, the Consultant, the ...
Working Model for Draped Reclining Figure by Henry Moore sold for $1,818,500 Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP Not as good as recent years, but not exactly bad. The inaugural day of the fall auction season had nice surprises like Malevich’s Suprematist Compostion being sold for $60 million, ...
Lines of Power, 2008 Currency collage , 6 x 4 inches If you are having a hard time deciding between investing in art or in more traditional markets, how about doing both? Mark Wagner makes collages using only one dollar bills. His work is collected ...