Art Market Monitor

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• Jules de Balincourt opens the sale with £67,250
• Liu Ye shows Chinese Contemporary is still kicking with £277,250 for Red I
• Murakami red Flower Ball sells for £289,250
• Antony Gormley Shift II makes £217,250 which is nicely within estimate range.
• Hirst Spot painting sells low for £337,250 but that’s still passably good.
• Christopher Wool goes for just above the high estimate to make £313,250
• Richard Prince Country Nurse gets £1.7m. That’s low and re-establishes the Nurse threshold around the $3m mark.
• Warhold self-portrait makes £690k right in line with estimates.
• Oldenberg soft Popsicle, Hamburger, Price bought in
• Bruce Nauman Wax Cat makes £175k just over high est of £150k
• Cover lot, Richter 1025 Farben sells below low est. for £1.38m
• Gursky Copan also lowers the reserve and makes £241k
• Doig, Night Playground sells for £3m–collectors are still chasing him.
• Sol Le Witt Open Geometric Structure 3 squeaks through at £211,250
• Alighiero Boetti Rosso Gilera/Rosso Guzzi breaks through to double the high est. and sell for £713,250
• Cy Twombly untitled work gets £802,250 comfortably over the high est.
• This sale is going well for Christie’s and confirms the relative strength of the Contemporary market.
• Fontana Concetto Spaziale also blows through the high est. of £400k to sell for £713,250
• First Dubuffet La Nef handily defeats the estimates and makes £385,250
• Second, La Coiffeuse is sold for £690,850
• Pierre Alechinsky makes £277,250 following on the strength of the Continental trend.
• Big Fontana lot Concetto Spaziale, natura and Concetto spaziale, Attese are bought in
• Yves Klein ANT 159 also fails to sell. So much for the Continental momentum.
• Frank Auerbach Mornington Crescent makes £881k well above high est.
• Auerbach Head of Debbie Ratcliff II makes £343,250
• Bacon Study for Portrait goes for low est. at £870k
• Robert Gober work passes and Jeff Koons Flowers sell just under low est at £337k
• Koons Walrus sells for £361,250
• Koons Moustache: £1.1m–not so nice.
• Joana Vasconcelos gets £163,250
• Basquiat withdrawn
• Anselm Kiefer £409,250
• Gilbert & George makes a strong price of £241,250
• John Baldessari Four Men £169,250–not a great price.
• Rudolf Stingel £385,250–that’s right at the low est. mark
• Julie Mehretu Transients, the second Mehretu of the week sells for £229,250
• Second Stingel £181,250–not so good.
• Damien Hirst Guardian makes £301,250
• Zeng Fanzhi Untitled is £229,250
• Wesselmann Reclining Stockinged Nude #8 reaches £337,250

Also of Interest:

• Christie’s London Cont. Evening
  Refresh browser for updates; all prices hammer unless noted. Total £39.14m Lot 32 has been withdrawn Lot 1 Matthew...
  
• Lot by Lot: Phillips de Pury Cont. Evening Sale, London
  All prices are for hammer without premiums. (Inka Essenhigh’s Lot 33 withdrawn from the sale.) Simon starts off with Gert...
  
• Sotheby’s Evening Cont. Sale, London
  Sotheby’s Evening Sale total: £54,074,450/ $84,761,700 That’s £10m above the high estimate. Chris Ofili’s dung painting goes for £800k, more...
  
• Lot by Lot: Sotheby’s London Contemporary Evening Sale
  (Refresh for updates) Dubuffet that has never been on the market since it was painted in 1962 goes for £325k...
  
• Lot by Lot: Christie’s London Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale
  (Refresh browser for updates) Klee and Laurens start the auction well selling over estimate. Early Miró sells according to expectations....