Posts Tagged ‘art’
World Record: Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sells for $106.5 Million at Christie’s
Christie’s May 4 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a total of $335,548,000. The auction was highlighted by the runaway success of Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, which sold for a record $106,482,500, breaking the previous world record for any work of art sold at auction. The Evening Sale portion of the Brody Collection also achieved 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 in 1997.
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Linda Gallery Contemporary Chinese Art
Linda Gallery, established in 1990, specialises in contemporary Chinese art and Indonesian paintings. Being an active player in the industry for more than a decade, the gallery has held numerous exhibitions, featuring works by famous Chinese Contemporary artists, Indonesian maestros, Indo–European artists, as well as other South East Asian artists.
The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art. With a network of 3 galleries and 1 museum in key cities of Asia, we aim to bring arts beyond the boundaries of nation and culture and expose our clients to different varieties of works. We are actively positioning the gallery as one of the leading galleries in the region.
*We will be having an exhibition on the 7th of July 2007 on Yan Bo’s works.
Please visit us at www.lindagallery.com
Thank you very much
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Contemporary Chinese ink paintings by Zhou Jun – 水墨画家周俊
Modern art by Zhou Jun: http://zhoujun.eu – All pictures are copyright Zhou Jun 周俊 – Please visit the website for info, exhibitions (recently in Cologne, Germany) and better quality images of the ink paintings with themes like monochrome landscapes of the beginning of times, portraits (women, children and [old] men), flowers, animals (fishes, birds, etc.), also abstracts, very colorful or less so. Many contain Chinese calligraphy too. Be on the lookout for the painter’s name stamp in red. Seal paste is used to place it on a carefully chosen spot completing the composition.
BTW for Mandarin try: http://hensho.eu/chenglun
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