Posts by Category: Art

on 16 March

Digital Collage Fetches $69.3M at Auction; Payment Made Using Cryptocurrency

A work by artist Beeple—born Mike Winkelmann—that began as a career development project in 2007 and became a massive and complex piece called ‘Everydays’ sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million...

5099 March 16, 2021 Art more

on 06 March

Angelina Jolie’s Churchill Painting, a Gift From Brad Pitt, Shatters Expectations With $11.5M Sale

The Winston Churchill painting that went to auction courtesy of Angelina Jolie stirred a fiery competition that resulted in an expectations-shattering high bid. Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque topped out...

4643 March 6, 2021 Art more

on 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...

4476 February 9, 2021 Art more

on 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,...

4531 October 31, 2020 Art more

on 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...

5628 July 7, 2020 Art more