Jean-Michel Basquiat s In This Case, sold for $93.1m Courtesy of Christie s
For its first ever 21st-century evening sale last night, Christie’s hired in the writer and TV personality Derek Blasberg and model Precious Lee to play the hosts of a futuristic introductory broadcast designed to appear as though they were wandering through some light-filled corner of cyberspace.
In the New York saleroom, Basquiats shared the limelight with an NFT (both bringing in many millions), and a virtual audience of observers, who were given special behind-the-scenes access to the proceedings, appeared as floating heads superimposed onto stadium seating courtesy of Microsoft technology.
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The artwork George Washington Carver Crossing The Delaware: Page From An American History Textbook by Robert Colescott is on display during Sotheby s press preview of the upcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York. Photo: AFP
Black artists are represented like never before at New York s spring sales this week after years of being overlooked and underappreciated, with several expected to set new records for their works.
American-born Jean-Michel Basquiat, of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, becomes the first Black painter to headline both Christie s and Sotheby s main auctions, on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
The 1983
Versus Medici are expected to fetch around US$50mil (RM205mil) each during the virtual auctions.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 ‘In This Case,’ part of his trilogy of ‘skull’ paintings, is expected to fetch around US$50 million during the virtual auctions. Picture courtesy of Christie’s
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NEW YORK, May 9 Black artists are represented like never before at New York’s spring sales next week after years of being overlooked and underappreciated, with several expected to set new records for their works.
American-born Jean-Michel Basquiat, of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, becomes the first Black painter to headline both Christie’s and Sotheby’s main auctions, on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.