NEW YORK, May 19 — A Jackson Pollock painting sold for a record $181.2 million yesterday at Christie’s in New York, leading a blockbuster day at the auction house.With its...
! Plus, enjoy an additional FREE RM10 when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with a min. cash-in of RM100 today. T&Cs apply. NEW YORK, May 19 — A Jackson Pollock painting sold for a record $181.2 million yesterday at Christie’s in New York, leading a blockbuster day at the auction house.
With its black drips of paint accented by touches of red on a huge canvas spanning over three meters , Pollock’s, the sale makes it the fourth most expensive work ever sold at auction. The previous auction record for the abstract expressionist painter was US$61.2 million, set in 2021. Other works by him have been sold privately for up to US$200 million.
“It is with this work that Pollock finally frees himself from the shackles of conventional easel painting and produces one of the first truly abstract paintings in the history of art,” Christie’s said in a statement.a bronze head sculpted around 1913 by Romanian-born artist Constantin Brancusi, sold for US$107.6 million, topping its previous record of US$71.2 million set in 2018.by American painter Mark Rothko sold for US$98.4 million, while Catalan artist Joan Miro’sRothkoMonday’s eye-watering auction follows a string of records set at Sotheby’s in November last year. , which he painted between 1914 and 1916, sold for US$236.4 million, becoming the second most expensive work ever sold at auction.
, a self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, sold for US$54.7 million, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman. , , a Renaissance work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which was bought for $450 million in 2017. — AFP
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