(Worldkings) Auction Market Around the World - P174. $22-Million Nicolas de Staël Painting Breaks Auction Record at Christie’s in Paris
25-10-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Christie’s handily broke the auction record for a work by the French modernist Nicolas de Staël before a standing-room-only crowd at its Avenue Matignon salesroom on Thursday night. While bidding on the evening’s star lot was relatively subdued, several lots with estimates below €1 million inspired the night’s fiercest bidding wars.

(Worldkings) Auction Market Around the World - P173. A Mark Rothko painting could fetch more than $25 million at Sotheby’s upcoming New York sale.
25-10-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Sotheby’s is betting big on the Mark Rothko market, again. The auction house revealed on Wednesday it lined up Blue Over Red (1953), which is expected to sell for between $25 million and $35 million at its marquee New York auction of contemporary art on November 14th.

(Worldkings) Auction Market Around the World - P171. David Hockney Is Now the World’s Most Expensive Living Artist
24-10-2019
(Worldkings.org) - David Hockney became the most expensive living artist Thursday night when Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) sold at Christie’s for $80 million at the hammer, or $90.3 million with fees. The work sold for exactly its on-request low estimate after nine minutes of bidding.

(Worldkings) Auction Market Around the World - P172. Pennsylvania auction house set to sell record-breaking 'Star Wars' toy
24-10-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Boba Fett action figure, with a rocket that really fires, is expected to fetch at least $200,000 – maybe twice that much

‘Statue of Jesus Christ’ – Masterpiece of nature through the hands of human art
17-10-2019
(WorldKings.org) The statue of Jesus Christ is made of petrified wood - a special material provided to us by nature, dating from 120 to 125 million years. The Petrified Wood Plank - the precursor of the statue of Jesus Christ was found in the Chu A Thai primary forest (Chu A Thai commune, Phu Thien district, Pleiku city, Gia Lai province, Vietnam) - this is the only place in Gia Lai province you could find this unique petrified wood.

(Worldkings) Auction Market Around the World - P147. An Old Volvo Truck Could Fetch $2 Million at a Bonhams Car Auction—Thanks to a Banksy Mural
08-10-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Despite his prankish beginnings, Banksy has earned himself a place of renown in the mainstream art world. His coveted murals are sold by lucky landlords and then turn up at high-end art fairs and exhibitions around the world. Now, Banksy seems poised to conquer the luxury car market too—sort of.

Auction Market Around The World - P1. Pink Legacy - A rare pink diamond has sold for world record price
01-07-2019
A rare pink diamond has fetched 50.3m Swiss francs ($50m; £38.5m) at auction, a record price per carat.

[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P100. The painting "Girl with peaches" by the Russian painter Valentin Serov.
08-04-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Girl with Peaches (Russian: Девочка с персиками, Devochka s Persikami) is an 1887 painting by the Russian painter Valentin Serov.

[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P98. An oll painting "Portrait of an Unknown Woman" by the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi.
07-04-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Portrait of an Unknown Woman, also known as The Unknown Woman, An Unknown Lady or Stranger (Russian: Неизвестная, tr. Neizvestnaya) is an oil painting by the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi, painted in 1883. The model, whose identity is unknown, is a woman of "quiet strength and forthright gaze". It is one of Russia's best-known art works, although a number of critics were indignant when the painting was first exhibited and condemned what they saw as a depiction of a haughty and immoral woman. Its popularity has grown with changes in public taste.

[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P96. The painting "The Lunch on the Grass" by Édouard Manet, France.
06-04-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (English: The Lunch on on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863. It depicts a female nude and a scantily dressed female bather on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting.

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