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Post by Bonobo on Apr 9, 2016 19:37:22 GMT 1
Sculpture by Polish artist sold for record price
08.04.2016 11:32
A work by one of Poland’s most respected sculptors that was stashed away in a shed in the US for decades has been sold at auction in Warsaw for PLN 1.95 million, a record for a sculpture in this country.
Konrad Niemira of Desa Unicum, which held the auction, said Alina Szapocznikow’s sculpture “Ptak” (Bird) was “a masterpiece.”
The work was bought by an anonymous Polish collector.
Niemira added: “Sculptures by Alina Szapocznikow very rarely appear at auction.”
Pieces by Szapocznikow, who died in 1973, have in recent years have been bought by some of the most prestigious museum collections in the world, including New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Pompidou centre in Paris and London's Tate Modern.- See more at: www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/247864,Sculpture-by-Polish-artist-sold-for-record-price-#sthash.NdeHf60r.dpuf  
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 15, 2019 22:46:55 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 8, 2020 9:45:57 GMT 1
Lempicka`s painting set a new record of Polish art sold at an auction: 21 million www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-tamara-de-lempicka-painting-sold-211-million-christies-smashing-artists-auction-recordPolish artist Tamara de Lempicka emerged as the star of Christie’s evening sale of Impressionist and modern art in London on Wednesday. A painting by the Art Deco painter, Portrait de Marjorie Ferry (1932), set a new auction record for her work, selling for £16.2 million ($21.1 million). It beat out her previous record, set only three months ago when La Tunique Rose (1927) sold for $13.3 million at a Sotheby’s sale in New York. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 8, 2020 23:24:39 GMT 1
I don't like it I'm afraid, not sure why. Don't like the 'Ptak' sculpture above it either!
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 9, 2020 17:20:26 GMT 1
I don't like it I'm afraid, not sure why. Don't like the 'Ptak' sculpture above it either! Ptak is silly indeed, but Lempicka`s art is known and appreciated. We can say she is in fashion. I need to make a seperate thread about her. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 12, 2020 19:56:22 GMT 1
We can say she is in fashion. And that is when the prices go sky high. No doubt she is laughing all the way to the bank. Obviously she is very talented but her work isn't my thing I'm afraid. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 13, 2020 12:23:54 GMT 1
No doubt she is laughing all the way to the bank. Obviously she is very talented but her work isn't my thing I'm afraid. Are you talking about a real person or her spirit now? I don`t know this idiom about the bank. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 22, 2020 22:19:47 GMT 1
Are you talking about a real person or her spirit now? I don`t know this idiom about the bank. I'm talking about the artist herself. Laughing all the way to the bank isn't an idiom, it's a phrase. It means she's making a lot of money very easily. I mean this in the sense that you said she is in fashion at the moment, so pretty much everything she paints is going to command six or seven figure sums. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 26, 2020 21:59:48 GMT 1
so pretty much everything she paints is going to command six or seven figure sums. Aaah, now I know why we have a little misunderstanding, you think she is still alive? No, she created her best art between the wars, died in 1980. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 26, 2020 22:31:35 GMT 1
you think she is still alive? No, she created her best art between the wars, died in 1980. Yes, I did! Oops! I don't know why I thought that. Sometimes I am brain dead  |
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 2, 2020 12:57:34 GMT 1
Before Lempicka`s records ,there were other pricey opportunities to buy Polish art: culture.pl/en/article/13-most-expensive-auctioned-artworks-from-poland
2. 'Dance Among Swords' by Henryk Siemiradzki (1887)
Sold at Sotheby's, New York, on 12th April 2011 for $1,800,000
Another version of the painting 'Dance Among Swords' by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1881, 120 × 225 cm, oil on canvas, photo source: National Museum in Warsaw
Another version of the painting 'Dance Among Swords' by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1881, 120 × 225 cm, oil on canvas, photo source: National Museum in Warsaw
In a way, Siemiradzki is a similar case to Łempicka, as most of the art world considers him to be a Russian painter – and that's also how he is presented at auctions (as Genrykh Ippolitovich Semiradskii). He was born in eastern Ukraine, not far from Kharkiv, to a very patriotic Polish family. Educated in St. Petersburg, he spent most of his life in Rome, which became his life-long fascination. Apart from the Dance, four other paintings by Siemiradzki have sold for over $1 million, among them Un Naufragé Mendiant (1878) (See the Polish list below) and The Girl or the Vase (1887). |
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