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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, June 23, 2010

A record price of $722,000 for Ansel Adams was reached with "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" from the Polaroid Collection at Sotheby's.

Sotheby's scores with Polaroid Collection
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 23rd, 2010 04:58

The Sotheby's sale of 1,200 photographs from the collection of bankrupt Polaroid Corporation whipped up $12.47 million, well past its $10.7 million high estimate. Self-portrait photographs by artists were among the works soaring past estimates. Andy Warhol's image of himself with closed eyes took in $254,500 (est. $10–15,000). A 1987 Chuck Close garnered $290,500 from a $70,000 high estimate. Close was among the artists who said they were told by Polaroid ...

Andre Derain’s 1905 landscape “Arbres à Collioure’’ brought $21.3 million at Sotheby's.

Fauvist landscape brightens London auction

The first of two major Impressionist and Modern art sales this week in London brought a total of $165.2 million at Sotheby's, within the $148.4 million to $217.5 million estimated ...

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