Picasso Monet Basquiat and Kusama Brighten Up New York Spring Auctions
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Results from the major Modern and Contemporary art sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams’ NY has conveyed a message of optimism to the COVID hit art market. First off, the Collection of the late Dr Teruo Hirose comprised three paintings and eight works on paper, gifted by Yayoi Kusama herself to Dr Hirose, her lifelong friend and doctor whom she consulted in her early years in New York in the 1960s when she was a struggling young artist in need of medical aid. Although the works were expected to go higher they still brought in a total of $15,225,938 at Bonhams’. Christie’s has had a comeback to the pre-COVID days with the sale of Pablo Picasso’s