Posts by Category: Art

09 February

Angelina Jolie’s Winston Churchill Painting to Hit the Auction Block

A painting by Winston Churchill is being offered for sale by Angelina Jolie. The artwork is the only painting Churchill completed during WWII—he was rather busy at the time—and depicts...

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31 October

Banksy’s Unapologetically Subversive ‘Show Me The Monet’ Fetches $10M at Auction

Mysterious, globetrotting street artist Bansky might be shy of media attention, but his bitterly satiric 21st-century revision of an impressionist masterpiece is getting a great deal of press. This month,...

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07 July

Hippo-themed Bathroom Suite Fetches $2.7M at Auction

A functional family of water-closet Hippo sculptures designed by François-Xavier Lalanne finished at Sotheby’s Paris this month at €2.1 million. Regular readers may recall that a Lalanne-designed sculpture from the...

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09 June

Billionaire Ken Griffin Pays Over $100M for Basquiat’s ‘Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump’

Aside from shelling out $238 million for a Manhattan penthouse last year, Citadel founder Ken Griffin expanded his Palm Beach estate with a hundred million dollar purchase, bringing the total...

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19 May

Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Brushstroke’ Estimated at $30M Ahead of Auction

At one time, acquiring a Lichtenstein indicated a moment of arrival. Well, Lichtenstein’s work White Brushstroke I is going under the gavel at Sotheby’s, where it’s expected to sell for...

3619 May 19, 2020 Art more