Picaso painting breaks world record w/ $106M

May 5, 2010

Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust (above) dated 1932, from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, was sold for a staggering $106.5 million to an unidentified telephone bidder, breaking the previous world record for any work of art sold at auction (set back in February when a Giacometti sculpture brought in $104.3 million). Yesterday’s sale achieved a stunning $335.5 million in total. The Evening Sale portion of the Brody Collection also became the highest total for a single-owner sale offered at Christies New York, surpassing the landmark sale of the Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz sale in 1997. The 27 lots from the Brody Collection achieved $224.2 million.

Marc Porter, Chairman of Christie’s Americas, commented: “This was a stellar night for Christie’s and for the art market. The sale was led by exceptional prices for works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Henri Matisse from the Brody Collection, one of the greatest private collections to come to market. In addition, we witnessed great depth of bidding and strong results for important works from other American and European collections, including additional paintings by Picasso and works by Giacometti and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. We are honored to have been entrusted with so many remarkable works this season, and we are delighted to have delivered such positive results, including three new world auction records for Picasso, Georges Braque, and Jean-François Raffaelli.” source

Picasso Who?

March 24, 2010

Now this is an ART gallery worth paying for!

Body Painting – The last South China Tiger

January 29, 2010

At first glanse, this image looks like a photo of a tiger’s face. Look again, you’ll notice that the tiger’s face is actually painted on the back of three women, by body painter Craig Tracy. Entitled “The Last South China Tiger”, this project is part of Save China’s Tigers‘ efforts to protect the remaining striped felines in China. Craig creates a new bodypainting to help save the most endangered tiger in the world. source

Now this is ART that we can relate to, not some BS scribbles that sell for $20M

Picasso’s Art in 3D

November 30, 2009

Picasso named this painting Guernica, its a representation of his reaction to the aerial bombing of a town named Guernica in 1937 by Nazi Luftwaffe.