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Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

The Art Newspaper

In May, Christie’s for the first time delivered a white-glove sale for its online Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art auction in Dubai. The sale included a section dedicated to Saudi artists, with almost all the works selling over their high estimates.

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Tiffany at Auction

Maine Antique Digest

Sothebys and Christies, New York City Photos courtesy Sothebys and Christies After the sale of the Danner memorial window for $12,480,000 (see sidebar) during Sothebys evening auction of modern art on November 18, which set a new auction record for Tiffany Studios, more than $20 million was spent in December on three

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Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain

The Art Newspaper

high estimate, as South Asian Modern art crests a wave The work sold at Christies New York, almost quadrupling its $3.5m

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8 Famous Color Field Paintings that Define the Genre

Invaluable

Mark Rothko’s piece, Orange, Red, Yellow , even set an auction record in the post-war category when it sold for close to $87 million in 2012. As the century advanced, though, the formerly dismissed color field painting was embraced by critics and enthusiasts.

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A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to Paris

The Art Newspaper

The latter will include the October 18, 1977 series which is described by its lender, the Museum of Modern Art in New York as evoking “fragments from the lives and deaths of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group”. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S.

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