A Tennis Player for Wimbledon and Other Museum Purchases 🎾⁠ At the last Live Auction of the year in Copenhagen, as many as 15 museums bought works for their collections, one of the most notable being the work depicting a female tennis player on the court by the up-and-coming, Mexican contemporary artist Monica Kim Garza. The painting was acquired by the home of the world-famous Wimbledon Championships, the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum in London.⁠ ⁠ True to form, the Danish museums were also present in the auction room or poised to bid over the phone, including Den Gamle By in Aarhus. Thanks to donations received via Facebook, they were able to buy Martinus Rørbye’s painting “En Torvedag i Wiiborg”.⁠ ⁠ The biggest draw was the large-scale CoBrA Auction, which marked the first major collaboration between us and the other Bonhams auction houses around the world. The auction produced eight of the auction’s million hammer prices. The highest price of DKK 3.3 million was fetched by Corneille’s work “L’Orchestre de Jazz Be Bop” from 1950 – a world record for a work by this artist. Then came Asger Jorn with “Le forgeron aveugle” – “d’une mythe muet”. ⁠ ⁠ Not only did the auction produce many great hammer prices, but a few other auction records were also broken, among them a price of DKK 1.5 million for a rarely-seen-at-auction stoneware vase in the characteristic budding style with the coveted bluey-green Sung glaze by ceramic artist Axel Salto. ⁠ ⁠ You can read about a number of the museum purchases via LINK IN BIO.⁠ ⁠ Photo 1: Monica Kim Garza, "Tennis Player", 2016.⁠ Photo 2: Martinus Rørbye, "A Market Day in Wiiborg", 1831.⁠ Photo 3: Corneille, “L’Orchestre de Jazz Be Bop”, 1950.⁠ Photo 4: Asger Jorn, "Le forgeron aveugle" – "d'une mythe muet", 1956.⁠ Photo 5: Axel Salto. ⁠ ⁠ @bruunrasmussendesign @bruunrasmussencontemporary⁠ #bruunrasmussen #monicakimgarza #martinusrørbye #corneille #asgerjorn #axelsalto #salto #danishdesign #dkkunst