Sotheby?s auction of Roy Lichtenstein?s White Brushstroke expected to break new Records
With Sotheby's record breaking online auction of Cartier Tutti Frutti leading the way, expectations are high for the upcoming sale of Roy Lichtenstein?s White Brushstroke
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Auction houses have turned exclusively to online auctions during the global coronavirus pandemic and with weakened economic sentiment, the initial estimate was that we weren’t likely to see any records being broken and there it was. Late April 2020, a bracelet from Cartier?s iconic Tutti Frutti collection was sold for $US1.3 million through a Sotheby’s online auction, breaking the record for the most expensive piece of jewellery sold over the internet. To critics, it was a “black swan event” – surely, never to be repeated" ?The result achieved for this bracelet is testament to the fact that, even under the most challenging of circumstances, the demand for great art endures.” – Catharine Becket, head of Sotheby?s Magnificent Jewels Auctions in New York on sale of Cartier Tutti Frutti
Well, Sotheby’s believes that their upcoming June auction of Roy Lichtenstein?s White Brushstroke is about to break another online auction record. Lichtenstein?s 1965 pop-art rendering of a black brushstroke against blue Ben-Day dots carries an estimate of $20 million to $30 million and a spokesperson for Sotheby?s confirmed the work is guaranteed to...
The post Sotheby’s auction of Roy Lichtenstein?s White Brushstroke expected to break new Records appeared first on LUXUO.
Auction houses have turned exclusively to online auctions during the global coronavirus pandemic and with weakened economic sentiment, the initial estimate was that we weren’t likely to see any records being broken and there it was. Late April 2020, a bracelet from Cartier?s iconic Tutti Frutti collection was sold for $US1.3 million through a Sotheby’s online auction, breaking the record for the most expensive piece of jewellery sold over the internet. To critics, it was a “black swan event” – surely, never to be repeated" ?The result achieved for this bracelet is testament to the fact that, even under the most challenging of circumstances, the demand for great art endures.” – Catharine Becket, head of Sotheby?s Magnificent Jewels Auctions in New York on sale of Cartier Tutti Frutti
Well, Sotheby’s believes that their upcoming June auction of Roy Lichtenstein?s White Brushstroke is about to break another online auction record. Lichtenstein?s 1965 pop-art rendering of a black brushstroke against blue Ben-Day dots carries an estimate of $20 million to $30 million and a spokesperson for Sotheby?s confirmed the work is guaranteed to...
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