Carla Accardi record at Dorotheum, Brancusi hits $93M at Christie's
At the Wiener Dorotheum, Carla Accardi's double-sided painting 'Fonda notte'/'Pieno giorno' (1986) sold for €400,000, ten times its estimate, setting a record for the Sicilian-born abstract artist. At Sotheby's New York, Henri Matisse's 'La Chaise lorraine' (1919) fetched $41.5 million, far above its $25 million estimate. At Christie's Rockefeller Center, Constantin Brancusi's gilt bronze 'Danaïde' (ca. 1913) from the S. I. Newhouse collection achieved a record $93 million. Brancusi's exhibition runs at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie until August 9.
Key facts
- Carla Accardi's 'Fonda notte'/'Pieno giorno' sold for €400,000 at Dorotheum Vienna.
- The price was ten times the estimate, a record for Accardi.
- Henri Matisse's 'La Chaise lorraine' sold for $41.5 million at Sotheby's New York.
- The Matisse painting was estimated at $25 million.
- Constantin Brancusi's 'Danaïde' sold for $93 million at Christie's New York.
- The Brancusi sculpture came from the S. I. Newhouse collection.
- Brancusi exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin runs until August 9.
- Accardi was born in Sicily in 1924 and died in Rome in 2014.
Entities
Artists
Institutions
- Dorotheum
- Sotheby's
- Christie's
- Neue Nationalgalerie
- Rockefeller Center
Locations
- Vienna
- Austria
- New York
- United States
- Berlin
- Germany
- Sicily
- Italy
- Rome