Tag Archive for: Christo
Warhol Flowers summon spring at Nye & Co., March 2-3
One of two Andy Warhol ‘Flowers’ screen prints, both signed and numbered, both est. $50,000-$100,000
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Nye & Company Auctioneers’ Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction, taking place Wednesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 3, will be headlined by property from a private New York City collection; property from the Stephen and Stephanie Alpert collection; property from a Provincetown, Massachusetts collector; and property from a Verona, New Jersey collection. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Arc de Triomphe to be wrapped as posthumous work by Christo
The Arc de Triomphe will be wrapped as part of a posthumous art project by Christo. Image courtesy of Xavier Sayanoff and Wikimedia Commons, published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
PARIS (AP) – The Arc de Triomphe has seen parades, protests and tourists galore, but never before has the war monument in Paris been wrapped in silver and blue recyclable polypropylene fabric. That’s about to happen next month in a posthumous art installation designed by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
NFT king Beeple leads Heritage May 13 art sale
Beeple, ‘The Everydays – The 2020 Collection,’ estimated at $250,000-$350,000
DALLAS, Texas – Heritage Auctions’ May 13 Modern & Contemporary Signature Auction is a decidedly frisky peek at the past, present and future of the definition of art, spanning decades to include masterworks by revered pioneers, celebrated revolutionaries and treasured upstarts. The sale, open now, includes a beer can fashioned into a rattle by Alexander Calder in the 1940s, a hypnotic work made in the 1970s by op art co-founder Victor Vasarely, three digital Everydays by coveted non-fungible token (NFT) artist Beeple, and everything imaginable in between. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Haring’s fridge door, Warhol’s moose star in Guernsey’s May 12 sale
Keith Haring’s much-inscribed and drawn-upon fridge door from his SoHo walk-up apartment
NEW YORK – A graffiti-tagged refrigerator door and a mounted moose head are among the unique items belonging to iconic artists Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Christo that will be sold at Guernsey’s Urban Gems Auction on May 12. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.