Jeanne Hébuterne (Au chapeau)  by Amedeo Modigliani  

artnet Reports Global Auction Sales Highlights and Trends For First Quarter of 2013

April 18, 2013

Top 10 earning artists at auction include Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

artnet Auctions Q1 2013 Top Sellers include Pop Art, Street Art, Prints, Modern and Contemporary Photography, and Japanese Contemporary Art.

artnet launches artnet Insights and announces new partnerships with ArtTable and Lucie Foundation.

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  Amanda Lepore: Mirror Image by David LaChapelle  

Special artnet Auction of Contemporary Art Celebrating Fashion, Music, and Celebrity

March 21, 2013

artnet Auctions is proud to present On the Rocks, an exciting new sale showcasing over 50 works by the most cutting-edge Contemporary artists, who express the generation’s creative compulsions toward beauty and aggression. From flashy diamond or gold-encrusted works on canvas to classic black-and-white celebrity portraits, this sale illustrates works which exhibit the Contemporary artist’s desire to reach new ideals. Including established as well as emerging artists of various backgrounds, this sale offers works that express the raw nature of human desire.

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  Stop by Martin Wong  

artnet Auctions Presents East Side Story: Art from the '80s East Village

March 13, 2013

artnet Auctions is pleased to announce East Side Story: Art from the ’80s East Village. In the early 1980s, the East Village of New York was a hotbed of artistic creativity, which sprouted a group of artist-run storefront galleries that hosted young and veteran artists. Soon other emerging galleries joined, and the community flourished. Those halcyon days (and nights) seemed to be a time of no limitations; everything seemed possible.

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  Melting DOB E (Platinum) by Takashi Murakami  

artnet Auctions Presents And then and then...The Art of Takashi Murakami

March 13, 2013

artnet Auctions is proud to present And then and then…The Art of Takashi Murakami, an exciting selection of over 40 prints, multiples, photographs, and works on paper by Takashi Murakami (Japanese, b.1962). The sale features silkscreen prints that have rarely, if ever, been offered at auction, including Melting DOB E (Platinum) (2006). This work, an important and dynamic silkscreen on platinum leaf from an edition of 50, is estimated at US$20,000 to 25,000.

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  Condition Report (diptych) by Glenn Ligon  

artnet Auctions Presents Text Me: Art and Language

March 12, 2013

artnet Auctions is proud to announce Text Me: Art and Language, a curated auction of over 50 works by leading Contemporary artists, including Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Deborah Kass, Jenny Holzer, Glenn Ligon, Barbara Kruger, and Richard Prince.

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  Standard Station by Ed Ruscha  

artnet Auctions Presents Top of the Pop: Prints

February 19, 2013

artnet Auctions is proud to announce Top of the Pop: Prints, a curated auction of over 50 works by leading Pop artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Ed Ruscha, Tom Wesselmann, and Jasper Johns.

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  Untitled (Hawaii Series) by Daido Moriyama  

artnet Auctions Presents Contemporary Japanese Art

February 12, 2013

artnet Auctions is proud to announce its inaugural Contemporary Japanese Art sale, an auction of over 40 works by an exciting range of emerging to established Contemporary Japanese artists, including Minol Araki, Nobuyoshi Araki, Koichi Enomoto, Mikasi Kawai, Yayoi Kusama, Daido Moriyama, Mr., Takashi Murakami, Hideaki Kawashima, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yoshitomo Nara, and Aya Takano. Works in the sale have estimates ranging from US$2,000 to 60,000.

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  Danielle Luna on the Diaries, Montauk Point, July 1977 by Peter Beard  

artnet Auctions Presents à la mode: Fashion Photographs

February 11, 2013

artnet Auctions is proud to feature à la mode: Fashion Photographs, an auction of works by iconic fashion photographers such as Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Horst P. Horst, Sante D'Orazio, and George Hoyningen-Huene.

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