Phillips New York Modern & Contemporary reporst Strong Sales to Exceed $8.5 Million

STRONG RESULTS AT PHILLIPS’ NEW YORK MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART SALE EXCEED $8.5 MILLION   Andy Warhol’s Molly Leads the Sale, Quadrupling Estimate   Notable Results Achieved by Women Artists, Including Alice Baber,  Nicole Wittenberg, and Others   New York, 28 February 2026  Sale Total: $8,519,160 / £6,318,337 / €7,209,748   Lots Sold: 149 | Lots Offered: 164 Sold by Lot: 91% | Sold by Value: 94%  Andy Warhol Molly, 1956 Sold for $412,800 Alice Baber Ladder over and under, 1972 Sold for $387,000 Nicole Wittenberg Alford Lake, 2022 Sold for $38,700           Avery Semjen, Specialist, Head of Sale, said, “This past Saturday’s Modern & Contemporary Art Sale in New York saw strong demand across the board, achieving a sell‑through rate of 94% by value. Held on the last day of February, the sale bolstered a fitting start to International Women’s Month, opening with seven consecutive works by women artists, each surpassing their high estimates. Sasha Gordon and Alexis Ralaivao set the pace with results several times above expectations, while Alice Baber led this opening sequence with a price more than six times its estimate, and achieving her second highest price at auction. The exceptional result coincides with Alice Baber: Sacred Spaces, a landmark selling exhibition celebrating one of the most distinctive voices in Post‑War American abstraction, on view in our galleries from 6–25 March. Strong performances by contemporary artists were led by Wolf Kahn, Beverly Pepper, Dana Schutz, Barkley L. Hendricks, Cinga Samson, Alessandro Twombly, Kehinde Wiley, Natalie White, and Nicole Wittenberg, whose Alford Lake set a new auction record for the artist. Modernist highlights also performed impressively, with works by Georges d’Espagnat, Sarah Bernhardt, and Jacques Lipchitz far exceeding expectations. These results affirm the strength of demand across every category, and we look forward to carrying this momentum into our Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London on Thursday, 5 March.”   Top Ten Lots Lot Description                                                           Estimate                                 Price Achieved 27 Andy Warhol, Molly, 1956 $100,000 - 150,000 $412,800 15 Sam Gilliam, Dew, 1974 $200,000 - 300,000 $412,800 12 Alice Baber, Ladder over and under, 1972 $60,000 - 80,000 $387,000 20 Sean Scully, 4.22.98, 1998 $150,000 - 200,000 $335,400 36 Kehinde Wiley, Terence Nance, 2011-2012 $80,000 - 120,000 $296,700 45 Manolo Valdés, Reina Mariana, 1992 $250,000 - 350,000 $283,800 19 David Smith, Untitled, 1959 $180,000 - 250,000 $232,200 43 David Bates, Fall Fire, 1984 $70,000 - 100,000 $174,150 14 Gerhard Richter, 4.4.88, 1988 $100,000 - 150,000 $167,700 47 Wolf Kahn, The Magnetic Attraction of the Deep Woods, 1996 $70,000 - 100,000 $167,700
Exchange Rate on 28 FEBRUARY 2026: US$1 = £0.7415, € 0.8465, HK$7.823
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Lehman, BMCC Art Galleries to Host Tandem “Mediums of Exchange” Exhibition

Lehman, BMCC Art Galleries to Host Tandem “Mediums of Exchange” Exhibition

Bronx, NY – Are you ready to follow the money?

Andy Warhol, “Dollar Sign Series” (1982)

Lehman College and Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) will present “Mediums of Exchange,” a two-part art exhibition that opens first at BMCC on Jan. 31 and then at Lehman on Feb. 9. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public at both locations, marks the first collaboration between two of the largest gallery spaces in the City University of New York (CUNY) network.

“The show is the first of its kind at CUNY,” said Bartholomew F. Bland, director of the Lehman College Art Gallery. “In essence, ‘Mediums of Exchange’ is a single show spread between two gallery spaces, one ‘uptown’ at Lehman and the other ‘downtown’ at BMCC, with different groupings of artists featured at each space. We hope our patrons will follow the show from one location to the next to get the whole experience.”

“Mediums of Exchange” presents more than 30 contemporary artists who appropriate and contextualize money, using currency as a material in their work or taking a conceptual approach to the global economic system. 

Exploring the ever-changing forms and uses of currency, the artists in “Mediums of Exchange” engage in sociological, psychological, and economic approaches that raise new questions about the role of money around the world. Andy Warhol, who frequently spoke about his fascination with the dollar, is the chief historical reference point for the artists in this exhibition.

Lisa Panzera, director of the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, said, “We are very excited to be working in collaboration with Lehman College Art Gallery and with these incredible contemporary artists, who are investigating varying aspects of currency, how it circulates, and what it represents in our current global society.”

Both galleries will host receptions to kick off the exhibit, also free and open to the public, on Feb. 6 at BMCC and on Feb. 13 at Lehman. During the Lehman reception, the Lehman Stages Bronx Music Project, a student and alumni musical group, will present money-themed selections such as “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” and “I Need a Dollar.”

“Mediums of Exchange” is co-curated by Bland and Panzera. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated 120-page catalogue published by CUNY with essays by Bland, Panzera, and Georgette Gouveia, editor of “WAG” magazine.

“Mediums of Exchange” – Downtown

When: Jan. 31 – March 30

Where: Shirley Fiterman Art Center

             Borough of Manhattan Community College

             81 Barclay St.

             New York, NY

Reception: Feb. 6 at 6-8 p.m.

“Mediums of Exchange” – Uptown

When: Feb. 9 – May 4

Where: Lehman College Art Gallery / Fine Arts Building

             Herbert H. Lehman College

             250 Bedford Park Boulevard West

             Bronx, NY

Reception: Feb. 13 at 5-8 p.m.

For more information about Lehman College, visit:

http://www.lehman.edu/

For more information about Borough of Manhattan Community College, visit:

https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/sfac/

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ANDY WARHOL—FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN, THE FIRST MAJOR REEXAMINATION OF WARHOL'S ART IN A GENERATION, TO OPEN AT THE WHITNEY ON NOVEMBER 12

ANDY WARHOL—FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN, THE FIRST MAJOR REEXAMINATION OF WARHOL'S ART IN A GENERATION, TO OPEN AT THE WHITNEY ON NOVEMBER 12 —Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again—the first Warhol retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989, and the largest in terms of its scope of ideas and range of works—will be an occasion to experience and reconsider the work of one of the most inventive, influential, and important American artists. With more than 350 works of art, many assembled together for the first time, this landmark exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, will unite all aspects, media, and periods of Warhol’s forty-year career. Curated by Warhol authority Donna De Salvo, Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator, with Christie Mitchell, curatorial assistant, and Mark Loiacono, curatorial research associate, the survey debuts at the Whitney on November 12, 2018, where it will run through March 31, 2019. Following its premiere at the Whitney, the exhibition will travel to two other major American art museums, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. While Warhol's Pop images of the 1960s are recognizable world-wide, what remains far less known is the work he produced in the 1970s and 80s. This exhibition positions Warhol's career as a continuum, demonstrating that he didn't slow down after surviving the assassination attempt that nearly took his life in 1968, but entered into a period of intense experimentation, continuing to use the techniques he'd developed early on and expanding upon his previous work. Taking the 1950s and his experience as a commercial illustrator as foundational, and including numerous masterpieces from the 1960s, Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again tracks and reappraises the later work of the 1970s and 80s through to Warhol’s untimely death in 1987. “Perhaps more than any artist before or since, Andy Warhol understood America’s defining twin desires for innovation and conformity, public visibility and absolute privacy,” noted De Salvo. “He transformed these contradictory impulses into a completely original art that, I believe, has profoundly influenced how we see and think about the world now. Warhol produced images that are now so familiar, it’s easy to forget just how unsettling and even shocking they were when they debuted. He pioneered the use of an industrial silkscreen process as a painterly brush to repeat images 'identically', creating seemingly endless variations that call the very value of our cultural icons into question. His repetitions, distortions, camouflaging, incongruous color, and recycling of his own imagery anticipated the most profound effects and issues of our current digital age, when we no longer know which images to trust. From the 1950s until his death, Warhol challenged our fundamental beliefs, particularly our faith in images, even while he sought to believe in those images himself. Looking in this exhibition at the full sweep of his career makes it clear that Warhol was not just a twentieth century titan but a seer of the twenty-first century as well.” #fineartmagazine

**Save the Date**

Don’t be Tardy for the pARTy 2015!

First glimpse of the new Andy Warhol: Portraits Exhibition

WHO:        This year’s event co-chairs, CEO and Founder of My Sister’s Closet – the Valley’s largest family designer consignment shops - Ann Siner, sister and My Sister's Closet head stylist, Tess Loo, and philanthropist Cheryl Londen invite you to attend the pARTy, Phoenix Art Museum’s annual fundraiser. This  evening will feature cocktails, dinner, dancing, a fashion collaboration by Neiman Marcus, and a rare, first glimpse at the new exhibition Andy Warhol: Portraits. Proceeds from the pARTy support the Museum’s exhibitions and programs.

WHAT:        Phoenix Art Museum’s annual fundraiser, the pARTy

WHEN:        Saturday, February 28, 2015

WHERE:      Phoenix Art Museum - 1625 N. Central Ave.

About Andy Warhol: Portraits Exhibition
Andy Warhol: Portraits features original works from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This notoriously private artist is revealed in the company he keeps. Including screen prints, drawings, paintings, Polaroids, and vintage family photos, this exhibition explores the phenomenon that is Warhol’s work on a deeply personal level, including more than 130 portraits produced by Warhol from the 1940s to the 1980s. This exhibition contains portraits of Warhol in his youth, a reproduction of Warhol's first celebrity autograph (from Shirley Temple in 1941), early portrait drawings from the 1940s, samples of Warhol's commercial work from the 1950s, movie star portraits from the 1960s, and more than 100 portrait paintings from the 1970s and 1980s.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum has grown to an institution with an international reputation for excellence. The Board of Trustees has provided solid leadership and economic stewardship. Our membership is loyal, generous, and supportive and the volunteers within our support organizations are a unique force in driving programming enrichment, and enthusiasm for the Museum. Since 1959, staff members have been a passionate, dedicated force following a vision of making this institution the best it can be. From all of these groups and more, donors have shared our vision, and, in turn, invested in the efforts of to this institution to raise the quality of life in metropolitan Phoenix.  Our Mission is simple - Phoenix Art Museum is a vibrant destination connecting people to great art from around the world to enrich their lives and communities. In the last 50 years, Phoenix Art Museum has hosted more than 400 exhibitions, grown the collection to more than 18,000 works of art, and has been visited by millions.

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15 MINUTES: HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL

15 MINUTES: HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL
An Exhibition in Sight and Sound


The Pollack Krasner House Foundation opening yesterday honored the shows organizer and producers, ... Jeff Gordon and Path Soong, the exhibition features silkscreen prints and original recordings, ranging from spoken word to music and sound, created by some of the most prominent artists, writers and performers who knew, worked with, or were associated with Andy Warhol. Included are Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Ivan Karp, Billy Name, Ultra Violet, Lawrence Weiner, Carter Ratcliff, John Giorno, Vincent Freemont, Alexander Heinrici, Brigid Berlin, Christopher Makos, Yura Adams, Nat Finkelstein, Connie Beckley, Susan Breen, Path Soong, and Jeff Gordon. ... http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/pkhouse/exhibition/warhol.shtml

The 15 MINUTES Box, sponsored by Sony and released through Sony's Legacy Recordings, and is available for sale.


All Photos © Jamie Ellin Forbes/ Sunstorm Arts Publishing Co. Inc. 2011, above top Roy Nicholson, Helen Harrison, Director of the Pollack Krasner House Foundation, Below Anthony Hayden Guest, Renee Dahl, happy crowd, Jeff Gordon, project organizer and producer, guests, Helen Harrison, Jeff Gordon &, fellow organizer and producer, Path Soong, crowd, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, & Phyllis Graff, Pollack Studio shot