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Following a major retrospective on the artist at the Centre Pompidou, Paris earlier this year, the 'Masterpieces: Sayed Haider Raza 1955 – 1985' exhibition at #SothebysLondon features some of the most exceptional examples of Raza's work.
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#AuctionUpdate : Executed in London in 1938, Piet Mondrian’s Composition (unfinished) is counted among the limited body of the artist’s process works—it achieves $9.1m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Closing out the #TheFisherLandauLegacy evening sale, Andy Warhol's portrait of Emily achieves $571,500
#AuctionUpdate : One of the very few oil paintings from the artist’s seminal Les Plongeurs series remaining in private hands, 'L’Étoile rouge (Les Plongeurs)' by Fernand Léger has sold for $1.2m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Jean Dubuffet's 'Gambade à la rose' demonstrates the raw and textured tactility that characterizes his most important work, tonight it achieves $2.4m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Depicting an area of sharp cliffs located near the artist’s adopted hometown of Abiquiu, New Mexico, a site whose heroic scale and deep grooves proved visually stimulating to Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Dry Waterfall’ brings $2.4m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Painted in 1959 at the very apex of the artist's most revered stylistic period, ‘Untitled’ by Franz Kline sells for $3.6m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : ‘Vitamin’ by Robert Rauschenberg, a work of remarkable intimacy, vitality, and ingenuity, a magnificent summation of the artist's most defining format within his utterly unique practice, brings $3.5m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : A quintessential example of the deadpan, provocative irony that defines Richard Prince’s seminal Monochromatic Joke series, ‘My First Girl’ by Richard Prince has sold for $2m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : A seminal masterwork, Black White (1970) dates to the peak of Ellsworth Kelly’s highly acclaimed mature practice, bringing $2.1m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Executed in 1983, Untitled XV singularly embodies the vibrancy and calligraphic lyricism of Willem de Kooning's final decade, selling for $8.6m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Saturated in a sundry of mythical blue, ‘Installing the Lens’ by Mark Tansey brings $4.5m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Capturing the duality of transience and endurance that challenges the very fixity of semiotic meaning, Ed Ruscha's ‘Mint (Green)’ achieves $12.9m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : The first work from the celebrated Seagram series to be offered at auction, ‘Untitled’ by Mark Rothko brings $22.1m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : Created at the apex of his mature sculpture practice, ‘Torse végétal’ by Jean (Hans) Arp sells for $1.3m #TheFisherLandauLegacy
#AuctionUpdate : From the artist’s renowned Blackboard paintings, Untitled’ by Cy Twombly fetches $26.7m #TheFisherLandauLegacy