Record Prices For Oil Painting Masterpieces
In the category of high prices, which may or may not mean anything, the first place goes by right to Vincent Van Gogh. On November 11, 1987, at Sotheby’s in New York, a version of his Vase with Irises against a Yellow Background painting was sold for $53.9 million, while on November 19, 1998, at [...]
An Edgar Degas Painting Sold For $500,000 In 1912
In 1912, Louisine Havemeyer purchase the Dancers at the Bar by Edgar Degas for which she pays $500,000, at the time the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist. Louisine dies in 1929, and in accordance with her will her children bequeath the most important pieces in the collection, including fifty [...]
Monet Water Lilies Painting Breaks Auction Records!
Christie’s, London, June 2008, $80,451,178 becoming an auction record for a painting by Claude Monet, and the second highest price for a work of art in Europe. It was sold on 24 June 2008 at Christie’s London auction rooms for £40.9m, a world record for a Monet painting. Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (The Water Lily [...]
A Van Gogh Painting Sells For $40 Millions
The BBC News Entertainment has posted an article regarding a Van Gogh Painting that sells for $40 millions. A painting by Vincent Van Gogh has sold at auction in New York for more than $40m (£22m). L’Arlesienne, Madame Ginoux commanded the fourth highest price on record for a work by the renowned Dutch artist. This [...]
Gustav Klimt’s Oil Paintings Sold At Christie’s
Four of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were at the center of a much-publicized restitution battle will be heading to Christie’s for sale this fall. Click here to read the full story. Experts say the four paintings — three landscapes and a portrait executed between 1903 and 1916 — are worth about $100 million. [...]
