2015
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See also : Yayoi Kusama Brown Bradford Marshall Buddhism New watches Perpetual calendar OnlyWatch Hypercars
See also : Yayoi Kusama Brown Bradford Marshall Buddhism New watches Perpetual calendar OnlyWatch Hypercars
2015 Ink Lotus by Dorje Chang Buddha III
2015 SOLD for $ 16.5M before fees by Gianguan Auctions
The Vidyas are the concepts that oppose ignorance to explain the universe. The five major Vidyas are logic, healing, communication, art and enlightenment. Yi Yungao also known as Wan Ko Yee is a master of the Vidyas. Doctor in Buddhism, philosophy, art, calligraphy and painting in 1999, he is also a fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. He lives in California.
This highly respected personality is self declared as an incarnation of the most important Buddha and is named since 2008 His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III. In 2011 he received the World Peace Prize, an interfaith prize that is often awarded to heads of state. A museum is dedicated to his art and to his cultural work in Covina CA.
His graphic art is varied and fits into the modern world while respecting traditional techniques. His favorite themes are plants, animals and landscapes. His use of inks in vibrant colors is in the following of the Chinese art of the twentieth century by Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Wu Guanzhong, for example.
The figuration of simple themes is an opening to the complexity and subtlety of nature. Lotus Ink expresses how beauty can come out of chaos. This artwork 35 x 69 cm was sold on the benefit of the artist's Buddhist communities for $ 16.5M before fees from a lower estimate of $ 10.5M by Gianguan Auctions on March 22, 2015, lot 109 illustrated in the post sale report shared by PR Newswire. This undated work was arguably executed specially for the auction.
On September 12, 2015, Gianguan Auctions sold for $ 10.2M before fees Loquat, ink and color 80 x 70 cm on paper hanging scroll painted in 2013, lot 79 here linked on the Invaluable bidding platform.
The image shows the fruits, leaves and branches of a loquat. The intention of the artist is to demonstrate that perfection can be reached in a light and airy composition. It is confirmed by a calligraphic text that subtly takes the shape of an additional branch of the plant.
His Holiness is a skilled artist whose hand does not shake. Loquat was realized without a preliminary drawing and without rework, with a nice contrast of ink density in twigs and leaves.
This highly respected personality is self declared as an incarnation of the most important Buddha and is named since 2008 His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III. In 2011 he received the World Peace Prize, an interfaith prize that is often awarded to heads of state. A museum is dedicated to his art and to his cultural work in Covina CA.
His graphic art is varied and fits into the modern world while respecting traditional techniques. His favorite themes are plants, animals and landscapes. His use of inks in vibrant colors is in the following of the Chinese art of the twentieth century by Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Wu Guanzhong, for example.
The figuration of simple themes is an opening to the complexity and subtlety of nature. Lotus Ink expresses how beauty can come out of chaos. This artwork 35 x 69 cm was sold on the benefit of the artist's Buddhist communities for $ 16.5M before fees from a lower estimate of $ 10.5M by Gianguan Auctions on March 22, 2015, lot 109 illustrated in the post sale report shared by PR Newswire. This undated work was arguably executed specially for the auction.
On September 12, 2015, Gianguan Auctions sold for $ 10.2M before fees Loquat, ink and color 80 x 70 cm on paper hanging scroll painted in 2013, lot 79 here linked on the Invaluable bidding platform.
The image shows the fruits, leaves and branches of a loquat. The intention of the artist is to demonstrate that perfection can be reached in a light and airy composition. It is confirmed by a calligraphic text that subtly takes the shape of an additional branch of the plant.
His Holiness is a skilled artist whose hand does not shake. Loquat was realized without a preliminary drawing and without rework, with a nice contrast of ink density in twigs and leaves.
2015 Abstraktes Bild by RICHTER
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940-7
2021 SOLD for HK$ 95M by Phillips in association with Poly
The very long way of Gerhard Richter is a gradual exploration of the limits between figurative and abstract. For more than two decades his abstract pictures have lost any nature-related form but the confrontation of the colors brings that reminiscence of nature which is eagerly sought by viewers. His abstract art is not hermetic.
Indeed his maturity in still increasing. He painted the Abstraktes Bild 940-7 at 83 in 2015. The cascade of colors is determined as previously by the movements of the squeegee but a full range of colors mingles snow, waterfall and fire, endeavoring to reach the limits of human perception and interpretation.
This oil on canvas 140 x 160 cm was sold for HK $ 95M by Phillips in association with Poly on June 8, 2021, lot 13. Please watch the video shared by Phillips.
Indeed his maturity in still increasing. He painted the Abstraktes Bild 940-7 at 83 in 2015. The cascade of colors is determined as previously by the movements of the squeegee but a full range of colors mingles snow, waterfall and fire, endeavoring to reach the limits of human perception and interpretation.
This oil on canvas 140 x 160 cm was sold for HK $ 95M by Phillips in association with Poly on June 8, 2021, lot 13. Please watch the video shared by Phillips.
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2021 SOLD for $ 5.1M by Phillips
2015 Patek Philippe 5016A-010
2015 SOLD for CHF 7.3M by Phillips for OnlyWatch
OnlyWatch is a charity auction of watches, which takes place every second year. The first event was in 2005 in Monaco under the patronage of the Prince, with Antiquorum at the hammer.
Swiss brands are invited to provide a unique specimen for the benefit of a charity supporting the research against Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The OnlyWatch event has become the high end showcase for contemporary Swiss watches and their technological improvements.
No premium applies.
The OnlyWatch principle, which is to have submitted by each manufacturer a unique model at auction, is necessarily pleasing Patek Philippe. For nearly a century, the models made as a single specimen were used as benchmarks for the technological developments and the design changes of the brand.
In 2007, the contribution of Patek Philippe to OnlyWatch was a unique 5712T Nautilus in titanium, sold for € 525K.
On September 23, 2011, in the sale operated by Antiquorum, Patek Philippe sold for € 1.4M a unique watch based on the model 3939. This smart tourbillon watch is fitted with a beautiful black enamel dial.
The fifth edition of the OnlyWatch sale took place in Monaco on September 28, 2013. The hammer was entrusted to Antiquorum. For once, Patek Philippe offers a model of the past, the 5004, commercially stopped two years earlier when they started the 5204. 5004 is a grande complication watch including perpetual calendar, leap year and chronograph, and 30 meter water resistance.
The 5004 watch sold for OnlyWatch has been made in titanium in 2013, and is the only specimen made in this metal, reference 5004T. It is illustrated on the page shared by Watchonista. It was sold for € 2.95M.
Patek Philippe responds most often to the OnlyWatch rules of uniqueness with a high-end model in a refractory metal unusual in its similar productions : titanium in 2007 and 2013, steel in 2011, 2015 and 2024.
The Patek Philippe 5016A-010 was sold by Phillips on November 7, 2015 for CHF 7.3M.
Swiss brands are invited to provide a unique specimen for the benefit of a charity supporting the research against Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The OnlyWatch event has become the high end showcase for contemporary Swiss watches and their technological improvements.
No premium applies.
The OnlyWatch principle, which is to have submitted by each manufacturer a unique model at auction, is necessarily pleasing Patek Philippe. For nearly a century, the models made as a single specimen were used as benchmarks for the technological developments and the design changes of the brand.
In 2007, the contribution of Patek Philippe to OnlyWatch was a unique 5712T Nautilus in titanium, sold for € 525K.
On September 23, 2011, in the sale operated by Antiquorum, Patek Philippe sold for € 1.4M a unique watch based on the model 3939. This smart tourbillon watch is fitted with a beautiful black enamel dial.
The fifth edition of the OnlyWatch sale took place in Monaco on September 28, 2013. The hammer was entrusted to Antiquorum. For once, Patek Philippe offers a model of the past, the 5004, commercially stopped two years earlier when they started the 5204. 5004 is a grande complication watch including perpetual calendar, leap year and chronograph, and 30 meter water resistance.
The 5004 watch sold for OnlyWatch has been made in titanium in 2013, and is the only specimen made in this metal, reference 5004T. It is illustrated on the page shared by Watchonista. It was sold for € 2.95M.
Patek Philippe responds most often to the OnlyWatch rules of uniqueness with a high-end model in a refractory metal unusual in its similar productions : titanium in 2007 and 2013, steel in 2011, 2015 and 2024.
The Patek Philippe 5016A-010 was sold by Phillips on November 7, 2015 for CHF 7.3M.
2015 Flowers by Kusama
2023 SOLD for HK$ 58M by Christie's
Flowers, acrylic on canvas 130 x 97 cm painted by Yayoi Kusama in 2015, features four blooms in bright colors proudly raised on their stems with a few leaves attached, in the follow of van Gogh's Sunflowers. Their bright colors arguably represent the joyous variety of life on earth. The background is the signature yellow fishing net over ebony black.
It was sold for HK $ 58M from a lower estimate of HK $ 32M by Christie's on May 28, 2023, lot 93.
It was sold for HK $ 58M from a lower estimate of HK $ 32M by Christie's on May 28, 2023, lot 93.
2015 Free Games for May by Brown
2023 SOLD for $ 6.7M by Sotheby's
Games For May is the title of a concert of the Pink Floyd made in May 1967 in London. By modifying this phrase to Free Games for May, Cecily Brown adds the idea of bodies in the joyous liberty of the spring.
This oil on linen 170 x 165 cm was sold for $ 6.7M from a lower estimate of $ 3M by Sotheby's on May 17, 2023, lot 1.
Brown views herself as a figurative painter. Human forms and landscape mingle together while keeping their colors, overall constructing a total abstraction in the follow of the Untitled of the later 1970s by de Kooning. The figures are only remaining as ghostly traces. The brush strokes bring energy and movement to her abstraction.
This oil on linen 170 x 165 cm was sold for $ 6.7M from a lower estimate of $ 3M by Sotheby's on May 17, 2023, lot 1.
Brown views herself as a figurative painter. Human forms and landscape mingle together while keeping their colors, overall constructing a total abstraction in the follow of the Untitled of the later 1970s by de Kooning. The figures are only remaining as ghostly traces. The brush strokes bring energy and movement to her abstraction.
2015 Untitled (Ravens) by Stingel
2018 SOLD for $ 5.9M by Phillips
In his hyperrealistic recuperation of images from the past, Rudolf Stingel selected in 2015 the twelve pages of a vintage calendar on the theme of wildlife, in the follow of the Romantic pantheism.
The pair of ravens frolicing or quarreling in fresh snow is indeed the most spectacular, in its action and its black and white contrast.
This strictly square oil on canvas 244 x 244 cm was sold for $ 5.9M from a lower estimate of $ 5M by Phillips on May 17, 2018, lot 23. In the signature style of the artist, the painting displays the original condition of the photographic image.
The pair of ravens frolicing or quarreling in fresh snow is indeed the most spectacular, in its action and its black and white contrast.
This strictly square oil on canvas 244 x 244 cm was sold for $ 5.9M from a lower estimate of $ 5M by Phillips on May 17, 2018, lot 23. In the signature style of the artist, the painting displays the original condition of the photographic image.
2015 The Next Hot Line by Bradford
2021 SOLD for $ 5.8M by Christie's
From about 2012 Mark Bradford prepares his work by drawing lines that will shape the image.
Smear, executed in 2015, is a continuous assembly of horizontal lines excepted two large adjacent triangles of vertical lines on the left edge. This geometry makes loose any comparison with a city map. This mixed media and collage 244 x 183 cm was sold for $ 4.4M by Sotheby's on May 12, 2015, lot 1.
Made in 2015 by Bradford, The Next Hot Line was included in that year in a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This mixed media on canvas 214 x 275 cm was sold for $ 5.8M from a lower estimate of $ 4M by Christie's on November 9, 2021, lot 29A.
This picture is built on a pattern of intersecting curved lines, like wide streets within a city map made of dwellings and of park dots, in a mesmerizing burst of colors emerging from bulk grey and black.
Smear, executed in 2015, is a continuous assembly of horizontal lines excepted two large adjacent triangles of vertical lines on the left edge. This geometry makes loose any comparison with a city map. This mixed media and collage 244 x 183 cm was sold for $ 4.4M by Sotheby's on May 12, 2015, lot 1.
Made in 2015 by Bradford, The Next Hot Line was included in that year in a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This mixed media on canvas 214 x 275 cm was sold for $ 5.8M from a lower estimate of $ 4M by Christie's on November 9, 2021, lot 29A.
This picture is built on a pattern of intersecting curved lines, like wide streets within a city map made of dwellings and of park dots, in a mesmerizing burst of colors emerging from bulk grey and black.
2015 Koenigsegg One:1
2019 SOLD for CHF 4.6M by Bonhams
The Swedish brand Koenigsegg, founded in 1994, is steadily pursuing and overcoming three records for which its only competitors are Bugatti and Hennessey : road speed, time 0-300-0 and engine power.
In 2014 a variant of the Koenigsegg Agera R is equipped with an engine of unprecedented power : 1360 hp, corresponding to 1 Megawatt. It weighs 1360 Kg and this conjunction of numbers provides the name for the model : One:1. This power has been exceeded on later models, the Regera and the Jesko.
0-300-0 is the time taken by the vehicle to reach 300 Km/h on the road and come back to a standstill. It assesses the progress of the technologies developed by Koenigsegg : 29.2 seconds in 2008 by a CCX, 21.19 seconds by an Agera R in 2011, 17.95 seconds in 2015 by a One:1.
The speed homologation in the Guinness Book of Records considers a two-way average for a production car that has been built to more than 30 units. It is held since 2017 by a Koenigsegg Agera RS at 447 Km/h.
This record will not last long. A Bugatti pre-prototype based on a long-tailed Chiron reached a top speed of 490.484 Km/h, achieving its goal of exceeding 300 mph. The feat, recorded by the TUV certification office, was revealed on 2 September 2019. Koenigsegg congratulated Bugatti and announced that a Jesko 300 was in preparation. The next threshold will be 500 Km/h.
The One:1 was built in 1 prototype and 6 commercial cars. One of them made in 2015 was sold for CHF 4.6M by Bonhams on September 29, 2019, lot 24. For this car in as new condition with less than 600 Km, the announced estimate had been CHF 1.8M to 2.3M. In a blog post released on June 28, Koenigsegg considered that such a value is below the market price.
In 2014 a variant of the Koenigsegg Agera R is equipped with an engine of unprecedented power : 1360 hp, corresponding to 1 Megawatt. It weighs 1360 Kg and this conjunction of numbers provides the name for the model : One:1. This power has been exceeded on later models, the Regera and the Jesko.
0-300-0 is the time taken by the vehicle to reach 300 Km/h on the road and come back to a standstill. It assesses the progress of the technologies developed by Koenigsegg : 29.2 seconds in 2008 by a CCX, 21.19 seconds by an Agera R in 2011, 17.95 seconds in 2015 by a One:1.
The speed homologation in the Guinness Book of Records considers a two-way average for a production car that has been built to more than 30 units. It is held since 2017 by a Koenigsegg Agera RS at 447 Km/h.
This record will not last long. A Bugatti pre-prototype based on a long-tailed Chiron reached a top speed of 490.484 Km/h, achieving its goal of exceeding 300 mph. The feat, recorded by the TUV certification office, was revealed on 2 September 2019. Koenigsegg congratulated Bugatti and announced that a Jesko 300 was in preparation. The next threshold will be 500 Km/h.
The One:1 was built in 1 prototype and 6 commercial cars. One of them made in 2015 was sold for CHF 4.6M by Bonhams on September 29, 2019, lot 24. For this car in as new condition with less than 600 Km, the announced estimate had been CHF 1.8M to 2.3M. In a blog post released on June 28, Koenigsegg considered that such a value is below the market price.
2015 Still Life with Wedding Portrait by Marshall
2017 SOLD for $ 5M by Christie's
Painted in 2015, Still Life with Wedding Portrait by Kerry James Marshall features a framed painting being hanged on a white wall by two assistants of whom only the gloved hands and a forearm are visible.
That painting inside the painting displays two African Americans in the like of a wedding portrait, announced as a tribute to Harriet Tubman, the highly esteemed former slave who escaped and became an efficient social activist. This portrait is a fancy as no document remains of her wedding with John, a free black man, ca 1844.
In that picture, Harriet is a woman in her early twenties. The contrast with the signature ultra-black skin of the artist is provided by a white flower in the hair and an earring. Her gaze is confident and straight. The non-significant John, from whom the real Harriet had divorced in 1851, is half hidden behind her. The similarity with the likes of the then US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is not by chance.
This acrylic on panel 150 x 120 cm was sold for $ 5M from a lower estimate of $ 1M by Christie's on November 15, 2017, lot 3B.
That painting inside the painting displays two African Americans in the like of a wedding portrait, announced as a tribute to Harriet Tubman, the highly esteemed former slave who escaped and became an efficient social activist. This portrait is a fancy as no document remains of her wedding with John, a free black man, ca 1844.
In that picture, Harriet is a woman in her early twenties. The contrast with the signature ultra-black skin of the artist is provided by a white flower in the hair and an earring. Her gaze is confident and straight. The non-significant John, from whom the real Harriet had divorced in 1851, is half hidden behind her. The similarity with the likes of the then US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is not by chance.
This acrylic on panel 150 x 120 cm was sold for $ 5M from a lower estimate of $ 1M by Christie's on November 15, 2017, lot 3B.
