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Tiffany at Auction

Maine Antique Digest

Sothebys and Christies, New York City Photos courtesy Sothebys and Christies After the sale of the Danner memorial window for $12,480,000 (see sidebar) during Sothebys evening auction of modern art on November 18, which set a new auction record for Tiffany Studios, more than $20 million was spent in December on three

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Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain

The Art Newspaper

high estimate, as South Asian Modern art crests a wave The work sold at Christies New York, almost quadrupling its $3.5m

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8 Famous Color Field Paintings that Define the Genre

Invaluable

Mark Rothko’s piece, Orange, Red, Yellow , even set an auction record in the post-war category when it sold for close to $87 million in 2012. As the century advanced, though, the formerly dismissed color field painting was embraced by critics and enthusiasts.