Jean-Michel Basquiat
Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also a recreational spot for picnics and horse-drawn buggies.The still-...
More than 30 works by painter Jean-Michel Basquiat will be on display and for private sale at Sotheby's S|2 gallery from May 2 through June 9.The exhibition "Man Made: Jean-Michel Basquiat" offers a comprehensive view of his short career, from simple...
With over 50 paintings, “museum-quality” is probably the term you'd use to describe Gagosian’s Jean-Michel Basquiat show, which has been drawing rock-star crowds to West 24th street since it opened. But really, it might be better to...
Before Jean-Michel Basquiat could afford studios and canvases, he painted all over his apartments — on walls, doors, refrigerators, and any other bare surface he could find. In 1979, the still unknown artist began transforming his girlfriend Alexis Adler’s...
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Keith Haring? A radiant baby refrigerator magnet? A barking dog tote bag? A few years before he died, in 1990, Haring began translating his cartoonish street idioms into mass-market tchotchkes at the...
SALE: Post-War and Contemporary ArtLOCATION: Christie’s New YorkDATE: November 14-15, 2012ABOUT: The bar was raised at Christie’s this spring with the house’s landmark postwar and contemporary art auction, which took in $386 million — the highest total ever...
LONDON — Phillips de Pury & Company closed out the endless summer art market season with a buoyant £23,376,400 ($36,233,420) sale compared to pre-sale expectations of £15.1-21.1 million ($23.4-$32.7 million). Estimates do not reflect fees, also known as...
LONDON — The art market received a big shot of adrenaline tonight at Christie’s rousing Postwar and Contemporary art sale, delivering £132,819,400 ($207,331,083), the highest total of its kind ever achieved in Europe. That compared to the £102-139...
SALE: Contemporary Evening SalesLOCATION: Sotheby's and Christie's LondonDATE: June 26, 6pm (Sotheby's), and June 27, 7pm (Christie's)ABOUT: After the Impressionist and modern auctions — the results of which are still to be determined — wrap up in London this...
NEW YORK — The spring contemporary evening auction season in New York ended on solid ground at the boutique-scaled Phillips de Pury & Company, turning in a respectable $86,897,500 total. That figure fell midway between pre-sale expectations of $75.9-...
