In the world of auction, here is the lately happened auction of Francis Bacon’s creation to which you should lend all your ears. Known as triptych, the artwork got sold for $51.5 million (inclusive of Christie’s fees). With this sale “Triptych 1974-77” penned down a record for postwar work of art auctioned in Europe. But unfortunately the masterpiece fell short of touching the $52.7 million and thereby missed the opportunity of beating Irish-born artist who generated $52.7 million for his 1962 “Study for Innocent X.” The artwork gold sold to an anonymous male bidder, footing on the periphery of the packed auction area and left within seconds of falling of hammer.

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The modern artwork by gamut of renowned artists’ viz. Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and others have united to contribute towards the AIDS relief in Africa via a unique auction in New York visualized by Hirst and rock star Bono in harmony with Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Scheduled on Valentine day, the sales generated through this Sotheby’s auction of contemporary work invited by world’s leading artists would be donated to assist HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa.

Around 100 artworks, all enthused by the red shade are exhibited at the gallery and would catch eyeballs till 13 February before the scheduled auction on 14 Feb. The long list of contributory artists includes Hirst, Jeff Koons, Georg Baselitz, Jasper Johns, Matthew Barney, Cecily Brown and Douglas Gordon. It is been anticipated that it would generate more than $40 million that would be given to the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programs, a fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Out of the lot of 83, a major count is being exhibited to be available for Valentine’s Day auction and have the red vibes attached to it, no matter as a thematic element.

Top pic: Take a look at the painting titled ‘Sunday Lunch’ by artist Subodh Gupta (L), a sculpture by Tim Noble and Sue Webster (C) ‘Metal Fucking Rats with Heart Shaped Tail’ and a painting called ‘All You Need is Love’ by artist Damien Hirst (R).

Also, a woman walking past the Jeff Koon’s ‘Balloon Rabbit Wall Relief’ (L) and Takashi Murakami’s ‘Red Flower Ball (3-D) are amongst the highlight of the auction.

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Don’t apply your wild imaginations after taking a look at this installed masterpiece. Rather give me some space to disclose and lend your ears here to listen quietly. Dubbed as Troika’s Cloud, this eye-catching accessory positioned at Heathrow Airport in London is stimulated by the concept of clouds metaphor that takes one to ethereal world as one flies high in the sky.

It presents the sharp contrast stuck between the tiring, chaotic airport practice, and the tranquil, glowing and airy world amidst the sky. Bespoken by the British Airways especially for their lately constructed luxury lounges, Troika art and design studio have implemented this five-meter huge digital figure. Artists’ involved giving shape to this concept includes Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel. The ready magnum opus offers an unbeatable blend of perceptible flipping resonance between 4638 black and silver flip-dots, which enthrall one’s mind as they produce compelling waves across the facade of ‘Cloud’. Furthermore, the manifestation fills the activities with adjoining shades, and offers a flirting show. Jump further to enjoy its video:

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The upcoming and elite breed of designers is making efforts towards inventing a new concept of gardening dubbed as mini-garden. To their much-surprise, they are getting a good amount of respect and attention from the adherents. A New York-based sculptor, painter, landscape designer and now artist Paula Hayes has charted out the possible inventions in resourceful horticulture and interior decoration with her impressive Teardrop Terrarium.

Her concept follows the presence of plants inside a hand-blown glass making them transferable artworks. The fragile, subtle glass terrariums in organic shapes form the replica of the teardrops, body parts, peanuts, and pears. It demands an investment of one-year period along with a great amount of care so that plants get fully established and starts eying customers. It was initially invented by Nathaniel Ward, an English physician and botanist. Here comes one important fact: these terrariums by Paula Hayes demand a valuable sum of $8,000 and $22,000.

Gallery: Paula Hayes Reinvents Terrariums

Fortunate photographer Amanda Dutton from Wired got the opportunity to capture the artistic creations by an artificial limb designer and hobbyist robotics engineer, Christopher Conte. The designer mind seldom uses designs or drawings to present his complex biomechanical statuettes. The core of this New York-based machinist resides in giving vent to his imagination.

From where does the concept behind the formations emerge? Nowhere but his mind! He takes a call of his mind to design something and starts making efforts to hunt for the much-needed products. He depends upon the overstock of antique parts with him and thus plays with Legos to experiment with innovative designs.

Stimulated by the convoluted craftsmanship of turn-of-the-century expertise and Japanese bronze work, Conte also twists to obscure sci-fi movies for stimulus. It includes articulated singer insect, lethal injection attack droid prototype, unmanned attack helicopter, external video eyeware apparatus, chronos version 2, carbon-fiber spyder and others.

Gallery: Eerie Cyberpunk Fantasies

I feel honored to feature these mind-blowing pencil sculptures onto my blog and more than that the very existence of such creative artist has touched my heart. It’s now being years that Jennifer Maester is neck-deep busy in giving shape to her art via sculptures. I am using mostly pencils. The sculptures are being designed after drilling holes in one-inch long sections of pencils, and stitching them together using a sculptural beading technique known as ‘peyote’ stitch. The great source behind her artistic creation was Ernst Haeckle’s work. Why only pencils? It is because it interests her and she use to make use of pencils down to the tiniest nub, and save the nubs.

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 Pinch yourself as this has happened leaving no space for your imagination to dance keeping your mind at unrest. Lately, a cracked jug got sold for £220,000 at an auction with its actual value even less than £200; thereby raising eyebrows of all the moguls of antique industry. If you dare to calculate, then the sales generated from this 19th-century vessel was 1,000 times more than its expected price. Something that started as a war finally got its proud bidder. One could sense that they were clashing for the box rather than the claret jug itself. What made it antique? It is marked with the name of Jean-Valentin Morel, which could be a reason as Morel was a famous 19th-century French goldsmith who spent the crucial years of his career in London. The jug-booklet pens down the auction as ‘a French claret jug, the rock gemstone body imprinted with animals, the silver gilt rise with enameled beautification, 19th century, 30cm. (Cracked and damaged). It is fitted in a box of Morel à Sevres.

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Light, Color, Sound! It has all. Demystifying it, I am referring to an active accessory to be taken home. This bravura falling waters fountain is no less than a statement in itself. It’s beautiful shades are being picked from the glass stones and cautiously positioned bits of dichroic glass. To my much-surprise, even the reverse-side of this worthy to be installed home accessory has plummet colored glass in a mosaic style. It flows of the water sings as well. The melodious rhythm is as soothing as a mountain rivulet. It comes with supporting table decked up with various tinted glass “stones” for the cistern.

This artistic creation by Kerry Cleaver is a kaleidoscope of color. Each of this masterpieces starting from a diminutive beach glass tabletop fountain to the majestic six-foot falling rock waterfall fountain is being hand crafted in the USA. It is been said that due to feng shui concept, the bold color usage conveys positive energy and arouses the flow of chi. Flowing water refreshes the Chi and pacifies your nerves. And the very blend of lighting makes this fountain ultra-powerful to bring good luck to the owner. Not only home, this could be placed at your office reception or even commercial palace as well.

It includes a major re-circulating p ump for the main waterfall and smaller one can accommodate the “stones” along with two underwater lights. If the one featured above seems to be missing something, then choice of colors is still yours and on demand the curves can be curved. It is retailed at $2,300.

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Long talked about graffiti artist Banksy work on London wall finally fetched 208,100 pounds ($407,000) at a scheduled auction at Ebay against its earlier anticipation of £1,000,000.

This would be merely a metre tall and mostly hides behind a wheelie bin in a narrow Melbourne laneway. The work reflects an artist in traditional attire giving a final touch on the word “BANKSY” spray-tinted in red, was scribbled on a wall on the Portobello Road in the west London district of Notting Hill. It is being said that before putting the work up at eBay, the seller shielded the piece with a plastic-sheet.

This artwork invited 69 bids for the mural, enclosed in a Perspex screen, on an peripheral brick wall.

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Whilst earlier we introduced you to the Francis Bacon’s array of paintings’ including Bullfight painting, his self portrait and not to forget ‘Study from the human body man turning on the light’. Today it seems the list needs to be updated as Bacon’s latest creation of a three-part painting identified as ‘Triptych 1974-77’ is anticipated to generate 25 million pounds ($50 million) in a scheduled auction of contemporary art sale at Christie’s in London on 6 February. This masterpiece painting is one of a series of evocative works Bacon produced after the suicide of his beloved George Dyer in 1971. The three portraits reflect a warped figure on seashore, unnoticed by two mysterious, hazily gloomy figures. Bacon’s creation dubbed as ‘Study of a Nude with Figure in a Mirror’ would be available for auction at Sotheby’s.

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