Auchter’s Art: Not So Big News

Five phone bidders duked it out over Pablo Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) after the asking price reached $120 million, with Christie’s Jussi Pylkkänen reffing the bidding at the May sale, as the value went up, up, and away . Ultimately, the portray bought to an undisclosed purchaser for $179 million, making it the costliest artwork ever to sell at auction Art News. Museum directors and curators replicate on the legacies of major collectors lost over past 12 months. In an open letter, they name on arts group to “refuse inhumanity, which has no place in life or art”. While at the Art Newspaper, the publication has continued to expand across print and on-line within the UK and the US.

Drawing inspiration from Carriera’s Portrait of a Man in Pilgrim’s Costume, Party has created three pastel portraits and mounted them on murals. The set up not only celebrates …