Press Releases
LAMA Press Release February 1, 2012
LAMA Announces Spring 2012 Auction
LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA), the fastest growing auction house in the modern and contemporary art world, is pleased to announce the date for its next auction: Sunday, May 6, 2012, 12 p.m. (PST). This auction will include Modern Fine Art by top-tier 20th century artists such as: Andy Warhol David Hockney Tom Wesselmann Robert Rauschenberg Diane Arbus Ed Ruscha Saul … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release December 17, 2011
LAMA Sales Reach New High in 2011, Nearly Doubling Previous Company Record
For Immediate Release December 16, 2011 LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) reached $8.5 million in sales for 2011, nearly doubling the previous record of $4.5 million set in 2008. This year LAMA achieved new auction records for works by Reg Butler, Ettore Sottsass, De Wain Valentine, Roland Reiss, Robert Rauschenberg, and Isamu Noguchi, as well as set a new company record … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release December 13, 2011
LAMA Realizes Highest Grossing Auction to Date
For Immediate Release December 13, 2011 LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) set new records for art and design in the December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design Auction. Total sales realized $2.88 million, a new company sales record, with 74% of the 505 lots sold. Isamu Noguchi’s Chess Table (Lot 280 est. $30,000 – 40,000) soared to a new auction … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release November 22, 2011
LAMA Announces Ex-Raymond Loewy Collection Studebaker Avanti R2 for sale December 11, 2011 Auction
LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) announces Raymond Loewy’s personal Avanti Studebaker from 1963 will go up on the auction block on December 11, 2011 in the Important Modern Art & Design auction in Van Nuys, California. This unique 1963 model, personally ordered by Loewy and handmade with custom detailing, carries the R2 supercharged engine. It was once sold at the McCormick’s … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release November 9, 2011
LAMA Announces the Most Important Selection of California Design Ever Offered in One Auction
November 9, 2011 For Immediate Release LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions’ (LAMA) December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design Auction will present the most important selection of California Design to ever be offered at auction. Examples include prototypes and personally commissioned, unique works each with strong provenance and rarity. Highlights include exceptionally important examples from nearly every major movement of the … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release October 20, 2011
LAMA Announces Most Important Auction Since 1992
LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) announces its most impressive sale to date: The December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design auction. This auction of over 500 lots features exceptional material from a prominent West Coast collection and includes rare examples of modern art and design by iconic 20th century artists. A 1907 Greene and Greene linen press from the Dr. … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release October 12, 2011
More News from LAMA’s Dorso Auction
For Immediate Release October 12, 2011 Los Angeles Modern Auctions’ (LAMA) single-owner auction of The Collection of Richard Dorso held on October 9, 2011 was one of the strongest sales in LAMA’s history and marks the highest results for Fine Art for the company. In a press release from October 10, 2011, LAMA mentioned a Craig Kauffman oil painting on Masonite and claimed the sale … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release October 10, 2011
LAMA Breaks Multiple Records with the Richard Dorso Collection
For Immediate Release October 10, 2011 LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions’ (LAMA) single-owner auction of The Collection of Richard Dorso held on October 9, 2011 set new auction records for De Wain Valentine and Roland Reiss, both of whom are currently featured in Pacific Standard Time exhibitions. The sale totaled $1,536,000, more than doubling the pre-sale estimate of $657,000, with 100% of the … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release July 23, 2011
Modern Auction House Partners with Acclaimed Art Blog
LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) and You Have Been Here Sometime (YHBHS) will partner together to produce a special interior showcase for LAMA’s Pacific Standard Time exhibit Collecting in Los Angeles 1945 – 1980. This three week exhibit explores the collecting practices of Richard Dorso, a native Californian, who at age 101 left behind a unique art collection spanning much of … Continue reading
LAMA Press Release June 29, 2011
Pacific Standard Time: Collecting in Los Angeles 1945 – 1980
LOS ANGELES, CA– As a participating gallery of Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of The Getty, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) presents Collecting in Los Angeles 1945-1980, a three week exhibit that explores an ideal Pacific Standard Time collector of art, Mr. Richard Dorso, at the height of his collecting from 1945 – 1980. The three week exhibit will conclude with an auction of Mr. … Continue reading