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Russell Crowe's 'Art of Divorce' auction has made over $3.7 million, with a jockstrap worn in one of his movies among the more popular lots.
Andy Warhol’s Mao sold for HK$98.5 million, or about $12.7 million, to a private collector at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong on Sunday. The painting fetched less than the $15 million pre-sale ceiling price, but still increased in value from its previous sale. The name of the winning collector has not been revealed. The piece, which is signed by the artist, was made with acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas and measures 50 by 42 inches. Warhol began his silk-screen portraits of former Chinese leader Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972 and based the series on an photo portrait of Mao that he found in the 'Little Red Book' Chinese officials had previously stopped any sales of Warhol's paintings of the former Chinese leader on Chinese territory, as the government strictly controls images of Mao, so this auction represents the first time that one of the iconic Warhol paintings of the former Chairman was sold in China. The portrait last went under the hammer in London three years ago and its value has grown by 20 percent with this latest sale.
London (UK), Oct 8 (EFE).-(CAMERA: Jorge Hinojosa / Claudia Sacrest) On October 15, Christie's house will auction for the first time David Hockney's work "Guest House Garden" with an estimated price of up to 7 million pounds.
Cape Town (South Africa), Sep 22 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Nic Bothma) The South African auction house Strauss & Co led the simultaneous face-to-face and virtual sale of works of art owned by the Desmond Legacy Foundation and Leah Tutu, an organization that watches over the legacy of Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his involvement in the fight against apartheid.FOOTAGE OF THE AUCTION AT DESMOND'S LEGACY FOUNDATION AND LEAH TUTU IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA.
Paris, Jun 18 (EFE) .- (Camera: María Díaz Valderrama) French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, creator of Little Nicolás and the watercolors and cartoons that have covered hundreds of times the covers of New magazine Yorker, has put up for sale more than fifty of his illustrations, which will be auctioned this Saturday in Paris.FOOTAGE FROM THE PARIS SEMPÉ AUCTION AND EXHIBITIONSOUNDBITES BY EXPERT ERIC LEROYTRANSLATION 1- "Sempé is aware today that works must live and it is important that they are in the art market. With his work he has already touched many people, he has marked the history of art and for an artist today there is nothing more prestigious ".
Paris, March 26 (EFE), (Camera: Martí Rodríguez).- The auction house Christie's will put on sale a collection of a hundred paintings of an estimated price of between six and nine million euros, with works by artists such as Caillebotte or Calder, which will be exhibiting from Friday in Paris. FOOTAGE OF THE WORKS THAT WILL GO UP FOR AUCTION.