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Christie’s to Sell David Rockefeller Estate for Charity with $700 M. Estimate, Aiming to Break Record for Most Valuable Collection Ever Auctioned

After decades housed partially in the complex that bears its name, the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller will be sold to the highest bidder at Rockefeller Center. Christie’s announced today that in spring 2018, the house will auction off 2,000 items belonging to David Rockefeller—the last living grandson of formational American industrialist John D.…

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Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Shocks Attendees at Sotheby’s $319.2 M. Postwar and Contemporary Evening Sale

As auctioneer Oliver Barker put it, “Now he goes into the pantheon.” Jean-Michel Basquiat became the most expensive American artist ever sold at auction Thursday when an azure-and-black untitled skull painting from 1982 was bought by the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa for $110.5 million after a ten-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s Postwar and Contemporary Evening Sale. The…

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At Christie’s $289 M. Impressionist-Modern Sale, $57.4 M. Brancusi Smashes Artist’s Record

The New York auctions began last night with an Impressionist and modern evening sale at Christie’s Rockefeller Center salesroom that totaled $289 million, handily eclipsing its low estimate of $207 million and falling just short of its $307 million high estimate. “It’s the best Impressionist and modern sale in New York in seven years,” said Guillaume Cerutti, the Christie’s…

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Two Major Auctions of Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture, & 20th Century Design‏

FAAM is pleased to present its spring auction schedule which will feature two back to back auctions on April 27, 2013 and May 2, 2013. The first, a traditional auction of important paintings and sculptures, will take place on April 27th, 2013 at FAAM’s Wynwood location and the second will be an auction of an estate and important 20th Century design that will take place on May 2nd at a mansion on the prestigious and exclusive Star Island.