Barbara Hepworth, Small Form (Amulet) (1960), sold for $1.02m (GBP768,000), more than the low estimate at Sotheby's in London on October 14.
Bassi continued to paint while serving five years in prison for shooting her son-in-law dead.
Atlanta and Texas's art scenes are burgeoning and new kid on the block in Austin is Ostillo Art Foundation, a non-profit backed by the local real estate developer and collector René Campos.
The Spanish artist has a retrospective at Paris’s Fondation Cartier in 2028, and she is one of three artists selected to submit a design proposal for the Glory facade at Barcelona’s Sagrada Família—the third and final facade of Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece.
Works by Malick Sidibe and Martin Parr were among the 62% of lots selling above their low estimate at Phillips 'Exposure: Photographs Online Auction' on October 2-13 in New York.
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