3 min read · 19 Jul 2024
Installation view of Oscar Murillo, A Storm is Blowing From Paradise at Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice, 2022. Photo by: Tim Bowditch and Reinis Lismanis. Copyright and courtesy of the artist.
Los Angeles: Bill Viola, the video artist who channeled the spirit of the Renaissance, died aged 73.
Market: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painted glass vase sold for $693,000 at Christie’s online auction, 6,800% above estimate. It was one of two vases Basquait gave to Jon Gould, who was also Andy Warhol's friend and possible lover. HENI News
Market: Felix Gonzalez-Torres led Sotheby's $5.32m 'Contemporary Discoveries' online auction when the artist’s C-print sold for $264,000. For all the highlights, see the HENI News report.
Market: Aenne Biermann, a pioneering female artist who died young, led Bonhams 'Photographs Now auction on July 18. Her surreal image Strasse (1931) sold for $28,000, eleven times its low estimate. For more, see the HENI News report.
Market: Carlos Alfonzo led Christie's Rosa de la Cruz Collection online sale on July 18. The latest sale of the late Miami museum founder's art totaled $2.43m, exceeding the pre-sale high estimate. For all the highlights, see the HENI News report.
Profile: The model turned artist Amanda Wall’s HENI Score jumped 177% with solo shows in New York and London and strong sales of paintings featuring body-conscious females. HENI News
Market: Marjorie Strider’s Girl with Pink Rose set a new auction record for the artist, selling for $180,000 at Sotheby's, Online, 73% above her previous record sale. HENI News
In other news
Market: Christie’s first half auction sales declined to $2.1bn, a 22% year-on-year decline.
New York: In the fall the Brooklyn Museum will present “The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition”, featuring works by artists who have lived in the borough during the past five years. HENI News
New York: 18 artists, including Barbara Kruger, will create works for JFK’s new terminal, a $22m public-art project.
"Oscar Murillo began to imagine Giverny not as a serene paradise, but rather as ‘a place of suffering’. The artist reveals how his The flooded garden, which is now on show in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, was inspired by Monet’s late, great water lily paintings, despite suffering from serious cataracts. "
- Art Basel