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ARTMARKET.COM: Artmarket.com: real paintings by blue-chip artists remain the super-stars of the art market, says Artprice
Lynda Benglis,
Hernan Bas,
James Ensor,
Rashid Johnson,
Frank Stella,
Alexander Calder,
$378,000 (est. $ 50,000 - $70,000)
Dana Schutz,
David Hockney,
Kees Van Dongen, Robert de Saint-Loup (1946-47): $143,750 (est. $20,000- $30,000)
After Beeple s freak wave in March, the ranking of the best performing artists at auction in 2021 has returned to its usual population of great masters. Beeple has now left the top 5 in favor of Claude Monet and Andy Warhol.
Top 10 artists by auction turnover (1 January 2021 - 15 May 2021)
1. Pablo Picasso - $252,155,000
2. Jean-Michel Basquiat - $217,287,000
3. Claude Monet - $129,984,000
Late North Texas philanthropist Anne Windfohr Marion's private art collection sold for an eye-popping $157.2 million (including fees) at a Sotheby's
Andy Warhol s Elvis 2 Times Courtesy of Sotheby s
Fourteen choice lots from the collection of the fourth generation Texas rancher and storied art patron Anne Marion, who died last year at age 81, fetched $134.4m ($157.2m with fees) at Sotheby’s single-owner sale last night in New York. But Marion’s sophisticated eye seems to have encountered some blind spots in a changing market more attuned to lighter weight, contemporary fare.
The venue was certainly appropriate in that the heiress was married to John L. Marion, the onetime chairman and star auctioneer of Sotheby’s. The collector didn’t just use her inherited fortune to buy art she was the driving patron behind the $65m expansion of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (designed by Tadao Ando) and with her husband John L. Marion, formed the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe New Mexico in 1997.
A 1983 painting by Haitian-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat reached $93.1 million on Tuesday at a Christie’s auction in New York, nearly twice its estimated price. A ten-minute bidding battle between three phone bidders for “In This Case” began at $40 million, escalated quickly to $50 million (its estimate) and hammered at $81 million, a total of $93.1 million with fees and commissions. The piece was reportedly consigned by Giancarlo Giammetti, fashion designer and cofounder of .