Nice. I like how the auctioneer gave the person in the room the benefit of the doubt and not wasting any more time. Sometimes it pays to have something done in person, on site.

The fact that in 1945 she was 28 and pregnant when she was creating this painting is a +

I am homeless and I can see the beauty and the investment in art. ✌️

@liasisboa

21 күн бұрын

Prayers for you🙏❤️🙏. Keep focused on beauty and hold on to your positive attitude. Things will get better.

0145 Sat 18/05/24 ..just saw video interview of buyer constantini posted by sotheby's...amazing story of love of art paintings...well done for waiting 30 years to try your luck again and win the bid this time...great story...

Looks like a Bosch study

This painting was found on an Antiques Road Show!

Each bid increment of $1M is enough to set up a person for life. The price of bragging rights among the super rich.

@ajadegirl

20 күн бұрын

say whatever u want to say, its all just noise to him :)

Love it!

I have an odd reaction watching this: there should be a revolution. I am rich, but seeing people so casually tossing around millions for a single painting to hang on a wall when most people scrape by living paycheck to paycheck. It seems obscene.

@k.y.6148

21 күн бұрын

If it's any consolation, most art at this level is being purchased by consortiums or museums for public display. I look at it that, rather than hoarding their money, it puts this money back in play for many other people to benefit. And if you are a billionaire, why not share the wealth?

@jlasf

21 күн бұрын

@@k.y.6148 Possible. But I have walked into the house of a friend and seen a $10M Warhol on the wall. So there's that....

@liasisboa

21 күн бұрын

I share your reaction. I am not rich, but I’m generally a believer in free market capitalism… so when I watch paintings go for many millions I feel conflicted. I know it’s simply a market functioning, and yet it does seem, as you said, obscene. I guess the downside of capitalism is that it does produce obscenities: athletes making 50 mil/year, Jeff Bezos’s ridiculously excessive yacht, 30,000 sq. ft. houses… and 20 million dollar art. The sad reality.

@jlasf

21 күн бұрын

@@liasisboa It's also the scale/speed of the bidding: in $1M increments! One loses perspective of what $1,000,000 means and how much that could change people's lives.

@liasisboa

21 күн бұрын

@@jlasf You’re right - something I hadn’t thought of but it is the pace of increments that seems so unreal.

Worth every million. #SothebysMatter

Very nice

its stunning, so much going on in this painting

¡Bien Eduardo!

Pleased to see a female artist fetching such high prices. I love this painting by Leonara.

@tipsysmichigander6483

18 күн бұрын

Many female artist paintings sell for high prices... What would be nice is if the family of said artist received some sort of compensation for their families art that is being sold and resold and resold and resold...

It’s strange watching the way that millions are spent here. Keep in mind that add another 25% for Christie’s and that’s the total .

@mattbrehe9781

20 күн бұрын

this is sotheby's and they recently revamped their premium structure to be 20% up to 6 million and 10% after that.

Curious if the auctioneer makes a commission as they really do an amazing job of trickling up the price tag ?

現場的買走了，厲害😂😂😂

I read the negative comments and think we want to value art but we become disgusted when people pay for art. Perhaps we should pick a lane.

why does the description say 28.5 and the auctioneer says 24.5??

@shreeragaviagencies6649

16 күн бұрын

Thats the tax and auctioneer fees

@dongiogarciasantiago2864

16 күн бұрын

n commission

Finally

Holy damn....

My bid 24 million and a penny! 😂

1148 Tue 21/05/24 BREAKING NEWS....christies brought back social commentary online...and realised sotheby's doing better on viewing ratings and PR, Publicity, People Person Skills..🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧..well done sotheby for being ahead of the game...💪👍❤️🇬🇧

Art auctions always seem to me to be the way really rich people show that they hate each other.

24?

Soo sad that she never got this money when she was alive and could have used that amount of cash to further her Art career : (

Was it sold for $24,5 or $28,5m? I heared $24,5m.

@davidschmidt5507

20 күн бұрын

24.5 + fees to the auction house = 28.5

@dongiogarciasantiago2864

16 күн бұрын

n commission + VAT TAX

Think of all the people you could feed with $28,500,000.00 …………………………..

Hola cordiales saludos . porque no contestan .

This sale was clearly THE story of the 2024 auction season. It was nail biting. Sell prices are about supply and demand. Like real estate, manipulation in the art market does exist but this is not the case with Leonora Carrington. Her accolades have been a long time coming. "Women surrealists" are in vogue and Carrington is leading the charge. Respectfully, I bow, but she is not the best of this school. Carrington's Bosch-like subject matter is discussed extensively. What isn't discussed is Carrington's lack of compositional skills, coloration, and the collapsing of negative space, as if these skills don't matter. Among this noise, there is nowhere for the eye to rest. This observation is not a critique. It's a matter of fact and not my preference. Carrington's vision is free flowing, not bound by traditional norms of artistic excellence. Some critics say Carrington is an amateur, others a genius. Pick your poison, Chopin's Nocturnes or Tool's Aenima? There is another lesser known surrealist in this school, Gertrude Ambercrombie. Her magic is as spellbinding as Carrington's but whose grasp of composition, color, and negative space is as charged as her subject matter. Gertrude Abercrombie's paintings are singular, nightmares in a Ikebana basket.

@davidschmidt5507

20 күн бұрын

Admittedly this is not my favorite of Carrington. I think “Minotaur…” is a much better piece and uses negative space in a way that this painting does not

@davidhunternyc1

20 күн бұрын

@@davidschmidt5507 Agreed.

#ShothebysHauseInEngland And Hause.

Eat the rich .

applause for merely writing a big check

Hola cordiales saludos .bla bla bla

Not for me. 😬

The world is insanely unfair 😢This is disgusting 😢