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Issue 223, September, 2009
Auction Notes
Auction Notes: Terry Ingram
Peter Doig, Night Playground, 1997/98, oil on canvas, 200 x 274.3cm. At £3,009,250, sold well above estimate (and 2nd highest price for the artist at auction) at the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Christie’s London. Image courtesy the artist and Christie’s images Ltd, 2009
Auction Notes: Terry Ingram
Fred Cress, True Believers, 1974, 211 x 274cm, acrylic on canvas. Sold at Menzies Art Brands’ Major Fine Art Auction in Sydney (24 June) at the top end of its $90K to $130K estimate. Ingram writes: ‘The 16th century artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted crowds of ugly looking people but they [unlike Cress’s melee] tended to be having fun.’ Image courtesy the artist and Menzies Art Brands.
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