Christie’s sale on 27 February raised $21.3 million, led by a work by Helen Frankenthaler

The total proceeds of Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale, held on 27 February, came to $21.3 million, reports artnews.com. The most expensive lot of the evening was Helen Frankenthaler's abstraction Concerto, dated 1982. The lot went under the hammer for $2.1 million dollars.

Of the 217 lots offered, 55 remained unsold. Among the works that failed to find buyers were pieces by Keith Haring, Ai Weiwei, Takashi Murakami and Alexander Calder.

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Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

Christie’s sale on 27 February raised $21.3 million, led by a work by Helen Frankenthaler

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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