In response to the question "How do you know when you're finished?" Jackson Pollock once made the reply, "How do you know when you're finished making love?"
Via Mutual Art: Following our highly succesful 2010 auction summary, MutualArt.com's auction summary is back with insightful information reviewing ...
Whereas highly valued masterpieces were rare in 2009, reassured sellers sent top-tier works from Giacometti to Picasso tumbling across the auction block in 2010.
If the gracious and pricey Upper East Side is the Gold Coast of Manhattan, then Madison Avenue is the waterfront for art lovers.
Picasso once again proved his staying power as a 1932 portrait of his muse Marie Therese, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, sold for $106.5 million, a record at auction.
Cartier-Bresson covered the shiny lens of a Nikon with black tape so his subjects would be less inclined to notice him, and took to the streets. What he invented there was essentially photojournalism.
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