Christie’s kicked off the spring public sale collection with a successful $178 million sale in New York. The auction featured 16 pieces from the property of Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the late chairman of Condé Nast, with seven works selling for over $10 million each. The robust efficiency signifies that collectors are nonetheless prepared to put cash into high-value art. Abraham Oghobase’s set up features silk printed with British texts from the colonial interval Art News positioned over re-photographed pictures, creating ghostly half-presences. During the last 15 years of his life, Matisse was mostly bedridden because of an abdominal surgery, however he continued to create art from his room. Using gouache-painted paper, he minimize natural and geometric shapes, arranging them into dynamic compositions that expanded all through his apartment.
ArtTactic reported an 18% drop in gross sales throughout main public sale houses like Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips through the first …