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Lot by Lot: Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Sale

May 12, 2009 by Marion Maneker

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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  • Uklanski withdrawn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

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