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- Owen Wilson & James Frey here at Sotheby’s tonight. Here we go!
- Gober’s Rat Bait goes for $85k hammer
- Charles Ray $250k
- Wool $1.6m–finally one gets above the low estimate
- Meyer moving quickly
- Warhol Cornflakes box gets bids and goes above est. @ $400k
- Dan Colen (Blow Me) gets them out of their seats and sells for $320k.
- Gober cover lot gets no bids
- Kippenberger sells at low est for $3.6m
- Small Warhol Flowers struggles to get to $340k below low est.
- Koons Egg has bids to $4.8m to Gagosian
- Jeff Wall almost makes low est. @ $640k
- Bill Viola $220k below low est.
- Kusama goes for $630 hammer, again below the lowest.
- Twombly early work $280k–gets in the range
- Diebenkorn passes at $1.5m
- Calder early mobile gets them bidding; Eli Broad comes in late and gets outbid @$2.8; still going; Meyer gets the patter going. $3.05m twice high est.
- Rothko, $1.4m just under
- Rauschenberg passes @$3.4m with no bids
- David Smith $2.25m following the same pattern
- Joan Mitchell goes for $1m below the est. range
- Ad Reinhart passes
- Oldenberg Typewriter Eraser $310k
- Warhol Mona Lisa $1.5m
- Basquiat Red Man $3.1m
- Twombly $825k well above the high est.
- Richter Mirror Painting gets dogged bids to $1.1m, well above the $800k high est.
- Serra passes at $1.3m
- Ellsworth Kelly $820k
- Flavin for $400k
- Richter Abstract $1.5m, well under the high est.
- Twombly pendant $550k below $700k low est.
- Lichtenstein Surrealist Head $480k hammer low est. was $600k
- Warhol back cover lot Dollar Bills makes low est. $750k
- Frank Stella passes
- Mangold inches up to low est. of $600k then makes$610k
- Richard Prince Joke painting with help from Gagosian leaps to $1.15m over $800k high est.
- Chuck Close $500k
- Munoz $580k
- Yan Pei-Ming self portrait $520k below low est.
- Warhol Cammo–“it’s now or never”–$1.35m–Mugrabi tries $1.42m and is told “No, that’s mean!” goes for $1.45m
- Judd $280k
- Flavin passes@$240k
- Stella passes
- Uklanski withdrawn
- Prince Joke goes for $550k
- Gilbert & George $750k
- Kippenberger passes @$650k
- Cecily Brown makes $1m
- Mike Kelley $320k
- Kara Walker wraps it up at $170k