20 MOST #EXPENSIVE #ARTWORKS #SOLD AT #AUCTION IN #2018

$157,159,000

Amedeo #Modigliani, Nu Couché (Sur Le Côté Gauche), 1917

#Sotheby’s #NYC, May 14, 2018

Amedeo Modigliani, Nu couché (sur le côté gauche), 1917. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

In 2018, 20 most expensive lots showed a healthy market that continued to churn out new records for major artists, despite many top lots selling on just a few bids or less. Collectors fought over paintings, furniture, and ephemera from the collection of Peggy and David #Rockefeller, which racked up $832.6 million in sales—the most for an #estate in #history. #Asian collectors continued to muscle their way into the top echelon of the auction #world, both by securing major works at sales in New York and by buying big lots during sales in #HongKong and #Beijing.

$115,000,000

Pablo #Picasso, Fillette à la corbeille fleurie, 1905

#Christie’s New York, May 8, 2018

$91,875,000

Edward #Hopper, Chop Suey, 1929

Christie’s New York, November 13, 2018

View the rest of the most expensive Artworks in 2018 click here: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-20-expensive-artworks-sold-2018

View recent sold works on Diego Voci: https://www.diegovociproject.com/acquire-originals

#RINGING IN #MAJOR #SALES

#Sotheby’s $146 Million #Contemporary #Art #Auction Reaffirmed the Deep Pockets of #London’s Summer Season!

Work by Peter Doig, Henry Taylor, and Cecily Brown proved there is an abundant appetite for coveted art in #London, even during vacation season.

 

Peter Doig’s Daytime Astronomy (Grasshopper) (1998-99), est. £6 million to £8 million, sold for £7,674,400. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

To Read more; https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-backs-june-in-london-with-strong-146-million-contemporary-art-sale-1309871 

Prices are heating up for Diego Voci; go to Acquire Originals on Diego Voci Project to view recently SOLD items! https://www.diegovociproject.com/acquire-originals 

 

 

#Magicians of #Light, Video from #Sotheby’s + #DiegoVoci

Click on this link to view the 3 minute #video from Sotheys: http://artdaily.com/?date=02/21/2017

As with the Masters of Impression, DiegoVoci (1920-85) infused the magic of light.

 

Visit www.diegovociproject.com to view more.  The Diego Voci Project is an all volunteer group assisting the Diego Voci Estate in archiving all of Diego Voci works of art.  Contact us at diegovociproject@gmail.com .  

#Google “Diego Voci” and click on images.  

 

#PICASSO #CUBISM #ART in June 12 #AUCTION

#Picasso, #Gris, #Leger or #Diego… #Masters of #Art learn from #Masters

Google “DiegoVoci” https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/cubism-diegovocitm/

http://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-voci-painting-of-the-week-5154118.html

www.diegovociproject.com

 

#TWOMBLY CHALK #DRAWING SOLD FOR $37 MILLION

Cy Twombly “Untitled” 1968 

Blindfold yourself and #draw a continuous “slinky” 5 times across a canvas.  Then listen to the Art #critics rave.

Every now and then renown #figurative #post-war artist Diego #Voci was always pushing the edge and would let his brushes go wild with abandon.  Here is one example:

Visit #YouTube for more on Diego the #Italian #Artist: https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/diegovoci-youtube-videos/

and #Google  #DiegoVoci for all social media links:

Courtesy of www.diegovociproject.com

SOLD: #MODIGLIANI $42 MILLION… DIEGO VOCI™ ESTATE OFFERS “VISAGE DE FILLE”

(left) Diego Voci’s “Visage de Fille” 11” x14”, oil on board. Diego Voci (1920-1985)

(right) Amedeo Modigliani’s “Portrait de Paulette Jourdain,” c. 1919, which sold at Sotheby’s for $42.8 million.

Persons attracted to Modigliani are also drawn to the magnetism of artist DIEGO VOCI™.  This small Diego is part of the DIEGO VOCI™ ESTATE.  Available:  Link to www.diegovociproject.com; click “Acquire Originals”.

About the $42 million Modigliani:

“There were plenty of big-ticket lots peppered throughout the evening, highlighted in large part by Amedeo Modigliani’s beautiful and almost prim seated portrait “Paulette Jourdain,” from circa 1919, which sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for the top lot price of $42,810,000 (est. upon request in excess of $25 million). The unidentified, silver-haired under bidder sat in the fourth row of the salesroom, wedged between two blonde companions and sipping white wine during the bidding. The pony-tailed sitter in the painting was the maid and later companion/lover of Leopold Zborowski, Modigliani’s Paris dealer. The work was last exhibited in “Modigliani and His Models” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2006. It was one of Modigliani’s last portraits before his death in 1920 and #Taubman acquired the work from the Acquavella Galleries in 1983, the same year he acquired Sotheby’s with the help of several private investors, including Henry Ford II.”

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1271802/sothebys-377m-a-alfred-taubman-masterworks-sale?utm_source=BLOUIN+ARTINFO+Newsletters&utm_campaign=f7ddc4e44b-Daily+Digest+November+05+2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df23dbd3c6-f7ddc4e44b-83386813

AC P of W #290 11/9/15

The Rise of Day Sales: How Auction Houses Are Finding New Customers and Higher Profits at the Day Sales | BLOUIN ARTINFO

Although top earners like Picasso’s Femmes d’Alger (Version “O”)—snapped up for a cool $179 million at the designer “Looking Forward to the Past” sale at Christie’s—grab the headlines and sp

Source: The Rise of Day Sales: How Auction Houses Are Finding New Customers and Higher Profits at the Day Sales | BLOUIN ARTINFO

Courtesy of www.diegovociproject.com

Diego Voci on Google and YouTube

@francisbacon PRICES ON #BACON AND #EGGS SKY HIGH IN #LONDON

1. #Bacon $142,857 per square inch
2. #Eggs $388,250 each (package of 4)

On 1 July 2015, a 1975 Francis #Bacon “Self Portrait” 14” x 12” sold for $24 million at Sotheby’s, #Bacon priced @ $142,857 per inch.

Lucien #Freud “Four Eggs On A Plate” 4” x 6” at same Sotheby’s auction, sold for $1,553,027. #EGGS Priced @ $388,250 each

Others of note for same auction.

#Warhol 1964 Diptych 8 Flowers, silkscreen ink on canvas 14 ¼” x 14” sold $2,269,084. Price per flower is $283,635.

Eggs by Jean Michael #Basquiat priced (6) eggs at $1,475,296 per egg! (Lot 47 sold for $8,851,781)

Details on Blouin link: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1190757/sothebys-big-but-bruising-contemporary-art-evening-sale-in

Images on Sotheby’s link: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/contemporary-art-evening-auction-l15022.html#&page=all&sort=lotNum-asc&viewMode=list&lot=9&scroll=2943

Courtesy the Diego Voci Project www.diegovociproject.com on YouTube and Google.

ICONIC #EDGARDEGAS SCULPTURE UP FOR AUCTION

The pinnacle of degas’ achievement as a sculptor

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that Edgar Degas’ Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, estimated to fetch £10 – 15 million, will feature in the forthcoming Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 24th June 2015. Petite danseuse de quatorze ans is the most ambitious and iconic of Degas’ works and one of only a handful of bronze casts that remain in private hands – the majority are housed in major international museum collections, including Tate, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museé d’Orsay, Paris.

Courtesy of www.diegovociproject.com 

YouTube and Google “Diego Voci”

Internationally collected artist Diego Voci (1920-1985) he was fascinated by the Ballet and all forms of Dancing.  See here https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/dancers-gallery/

#SOTHEBY’S OFFERS RARE #POPE PAINTING BY #BACON

Courtesy ArtDaily and #DiegoVociProject.com

Painting by Bacon will lead the highest valued auction of Contemporary art ever staged in London

LONDON.- On July 1 Sotheby’s in London will offer Francis Bacon’s famed painting, Study for a Pope I, 1961, estimated £25,000,000-35,000,000.  Consumed by an obsession with Diego Velázquez’s Portrait of Innocent X, the Irish-born artist created this monumental work specifically for his breakthrough retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1962. For 40 years the painting remained in the collection of the celebrated art collector (and infamous playboy) Gunter Sachs, before being sold at auction in 2005 for $10m (£5.8m), a record price for any work by Bacon at that time. The subsequent ten years have seen a meteoric rise in the value of paintings by the artist. Today, the record for a Bacon stands at $142m (£89.3 million), the highest price for any work of contemporary art at auction. With the artist’s critical and commercial standing at new heights, Study for a Pope I, will lead the highest estimated sale of contemporary art ever staged in London, estimated £143.2m-204.6m.

http://artdaily.com/news/79178/Painting-by-Bacon-will-lead-the-highest-valued-auction-of-Contemporary-art-ever-staged-in-London#.VXhU3PlVhBc