artruby:

Cass Bird, Bubble, (2009)

artnet:

Record Art Sotheby’s

Last night at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction, six bidders fought over Barnett Newman’s Onement VI, a spectacular blue abstract composition from 1953. In the end, a telephone bidder payed US$43.8 million, a record price for the artist’s work at auction. 

Records were set for four artists that night, including Gerhard Richter’s 1968 work, Domplatz, Mailand, which was bought by New York businessmanDonald L. Bryant for US$33 million. 

There were some high-profile casualties, with a Francis Bacon and a Jeff Koons work failing to attract bidders. 

At the end of the night the Contemporary Art auction totaled US$293.6 million. 

Dads at the derby and asked me to pick a horse. I’m going for Goldencents! #8

artruby:

Christopher Coppers, Desperate Table.