#Christie’s and #Sotheby’s increasingly are lining up third-party guarantors, sophisticated financial players, to minimize their own risk at #auction.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/guaranteed-sales-fuel-the-art-market
Check out remnants of the Diego Voci #Estate owned by Helga Voci, Diego’s widow.:
Purchase Prices are in EUROs
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If you thought it was the bottom one you would not be alone. The top painting that sold on February 28, 2017 for $25 million dollars at Christie’s in London is not the typical bold style Gauguin is known for (Google “Gauguin images“).
The lower painting is by Antonio Diego Voci (1920-1985) from the private collection of Patti and Coop Cooprider. Google has selected a few dozen of Diego Voci art works for display in their gallery of Diego Voci Images. Google “Diego Voci” and click “Images”.
Also take a museum tour on YouTube https://youtu.be/GG5Jl-2FuXM
We are the Diego Voci Project, an all volunteer group assisting the Diego Voci Estate spreading the awareness of the great internationally collected artist Diego Voci and cataloging all of Diego Voci’s works of art in the Estate’s Archive.
#Yusaku #Maezawa is the Mystery #Bidder and #Buyer of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Untitled” at #Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary sale that realized a reassuring $318.4 #million!
Take a virtual Museum Tour while sitting down: https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/diegovoci-youtube-videos/
#Google #DiegoVoci to see what this #internationally known #Italian #Artist created! See our Boards on #Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/
Contact us at: diegovociproject@gmail.com when you find an Antonio #Diego #Voci #artwork (b. 1920 d. 1985) Also see: www.diegovociproject.com
Update from post on September 19, 2015
https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/nine-figures-to-buy-one-nude-figure-by-modigliani/
Straight from the #NYTimes
In an overheated art market where anything seems possible, a painting of an outstretched nude woman by the early-20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani sold on Monday night for $170.4 million with fees to Liu Yiqian, a former taxi driver turned billionaire art collector, in a packed sales room at Christie’s. It was the second-highest price paid for an artwork at auction.
The painting became the 10th work of art to reach nine figures under the hammer. The bidding was palpably tense, with six people vying for the lot, and it took nine minutes to sell, with the winning bid coming from the phone. Mr. Liu, who with his wife Wang Wei is among China’s most visible art collectors, confirmed on Tuesday that he is the buyer. He said he planned to bring the work back to Shanghai, where he and his wife have two private museums.
Modigliani nudes are regarded as among the ultimate trophy paintings of the 20th century.
To view the video on BBC click on the link: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34775073
Courtesy of The Diego Voci Project: www.diegovociproject.com
Alberto Giacometti’s human-scale bronze sculpture of a pointing man fetched $141.3 million in New York, setting an auction record for the Swiss artist.
And German Art Dealer Busted Trying to Sell Fake Giacometti Sculpture
Police discovered over 1,000 bronze Giacometti forgeries in the gang’s warehouse. The authorities melted down the sculptures, but as the current court case shows, many are still on the market. https://news.artnet.com/in-brief/giacometti-forgery-fraud-court-296471?utm_campaign=artnetnews&utm_source=051115daily&utm_medium=email
Buyer beware! The information shared is to inform buyers to have your priceless works of art authenticated.
Courtesy of www.diegovociproject.com.
See “Les Femmes d’Alger” Version “O” ” below.
The all-time record breaker for Auction! #Picasso is in a category by himself.
Do we dare then ask you to compare to #Diego Voci? Yes, for the purpose of finding the viewers estimate of value for a Diego work of art. Here is Diego’s fauve version of the not legendary Amazon Warriors. These women, they are all women, really did exist. Click this link for evidence of Amazon women http://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-voci-painting-of-the-week-5154118/Page9.html#244. And, for “Wonder Woman’s” Amazon history, http://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-voci-painting-of-the-week-5154118/Page9.html#249.
If a Picasso is worth $179 Million Dollars, how much should “Le Amazzoni” 31” x 39” be valued? Let us know. Google www.diegovociproject.com and email us.
Jeff Koons, Fait d’Hiver (1988)
Photo: Courtesy Christie’s via artnet Price Database
Jeff Koons has been accused of plagiarizing a 1985 advertisement for French Clothing brand Naf Naf. Franck Davidovici, the Frenchman who created the ad in question, has claimed that Koons’s sculpture Fait d’Hiver (1988) is a blatant copy of his work. An example of the sculpture is currently on view at the Centre Pompidou as part of the artist’s retrospective.
As the AFP initially reported, citing anonymous sources close to the case, the advertisement featured a woman laying on her back in the snow with a small pig, which sports a rum barrel around its neck and is nuzzling the top of her head. It was also called “Fait d’Hiver.”
Koons’s artwork, part of his well-known “Banality” series, features Italian porn star Ilona Staller styled with similarly greasy, short black hair and also being approached by a pig. Koons’s sculpture, of which there are four copies (an edition of three and one artist proof) does differ slightly from the ad. In the artwork, the pig’s barrel is attached to its neck by a lei. An emperor penguin and its chick accompanying the pig check out Staller, who is presented with her breasts exposed through a mesh top.
However, Davidovici’s lawyer, Jean Aittouares, confirmed to multiple sources that a “legal action” was underway. A French bailiff reportedly went to the Pompidou’s Koons retrospective on Thursday of last week to take a picture of Fait d’Hiver (1988). Aittouares did not specify further as to the nature of the proposed legal action.
According to the artnet Price Database, one edition of Fait d’Hiver (1988) sold at Christie’s New York in November 2007 for $4.3 million. Another example was bought in at a Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg sale in New York in November 2001.
The case marks the fourth time that Koons has been taken to court over a work from his “Banality” series. In the past, his legal representatives have argued that the works did not infringe on the copyright protections of his sources due to a “fair use by parody” provision in US copyright law. (A similar defense was used in the recent Prince v. Cariou case.)
Koons lost two of the three copyright infringement cases that have thus far been brought against him. The first, Rogers v. Koons, was decided against the artist in 1992 and involved the appropriation of a photograph which depicts a couple holding a group of puppies. Likewise, Koons lost a case brought against him by United Features Syndicate, over the use of “Odie,” a character featured in Garfield. He did, however, prevail in a case dealing with his appropriation of fashion photographer Andrea Blanch’s image of a woman’s feet wearing Gucci sandals, which Koons included in a portion of his 2000 painting, Niagra.
Despite the changes Koons made to the original presentation of the “Fait d’Hiver” advertisement in his sculpture, he may not be protected under the fair use by parody or transformation clause. As copyright lawyers Owen, Wickersham, and Erickson explain in analyzing the previous cases brought against the artist, “Even a quantitatively small amount of copying can be infringement if it copies a qualitatively important part of the original work.” They note a common misconception “that you can avoid infringement by making at least 20 percent changes from the original,” but counter, “This is not true. Infringement is not a mathematical formula.”
Henri Matisse
Nu assis, fond bleu 1936
oil on canvas
Sold at Christie’s $5.4million
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