Sharon Stone Presents Historic Russian Painting At Phillips Auction House; Kazimir Malevich Sale Brings in 17 Million and Portion of Proceeds Goes To amfAR.Business, Arts & Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and on Business Wire's Web site at www.businesswire.com NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2000 Phillips International Auctioneers has set out to conquer the American Art American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture, Market with the sale of the masterpiece "Suprematist Composition" by the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, that went for more than 17 million dollars on May 11 last week in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . This painting is a pivotal work in the history of 20th century art. Recently returned to the Malevich family by the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the composition was presented to buyers, during the sale, by the actress Sharon Stone, dressed from top to toe from head to foot; altogether. See also: Top in red chiffon chiffon (shĭfŏn`), plain-weave, lightweight, sheer, transparent fabric made of cotton, silk, or synthetic fiber; it is made of fine, highly twisted, strong yarn. by Dior. After the sale, Sharon Stone received a percentage of the auction's proceeds as a donation on behalf of amfAR, for which she is a Chairman of the Campaign for AIDS Research. Thus Phillips is the first Auction House to contribute to the fight against AIDS. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.051700/bw3 |
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