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Lot by Lot: Sotheby's London Contemporary Evening Sale

June 25, 2009 by Marion Maneker

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  • Dubuffet that has never been on the market since it was painted in 1962 goes for £325k
  • Yves Klein ANT 59 makes £457k, in line with estimates.
  • Fontana sells at top of estimate range for £253k
  • Calder mobile in wood similar to one sold in New York in May is bid up to £2.6m, comfortably above the high estimate.
  • Nicolas de Staël still life also in upper end of the estimate range: £870k
  • Gerhard Richter antler painting sold for well under the low estimate at £481k
  • Louise Bourgeois sculpture £397k which is way above the estimates
  • Julie Mehretu Untitled made in 2005 sells for below the estimate range at £241k. There’s another one next week at Christie’s. Uh-oh.
  • Here’s the Doig Almost Grown just making the high est. with buyer’s premium at £2.057m
  • Gursky Dubai World II a 2007 work sells for £445k, beneath the low est.
  • Hirst butterfly “stained glass window” makes low est. at £657k
  • Alighiero Boetti Untitled white letters from 1979 goes over est. to £469k
  • Calder mobile sells for £1.8m right in line.
  • Warhol disaster painting Tuna Fish cans, one of only two, £3.7m is well under the estimate range. Not a god sign for the Warhol market
  • Hammer and sickle also goes for less than estimates £2m
  • Diamond Dust Shoes gets £634k also well below est. range.
  • Warhol Yves Saint Laurent gets £337k
  • Basquiat £1.27m also low.
  • Cattelan Mini-Me £493k
  • Murakami £139k at the low end
  • Hirst spin painting gets bought in
  • Big score for Howard Hodgkin paying off decision to include in evening sale.
  • Bridget Riley bought in–is the rage for her work finally over? What a shame.
  • Yayoi Kusama gets a nice number at £337k
  • Richard Prince joke painting does well at £553k
  • Judd wall work sells for £277k
  • Flavin corner piece makes high est. at £181k
  • Boetti World Map goes over high for £349k
  • Early Dubuffet sells for £903k against a £700k high est.
  • Germaine Richier sculpture sells for £409k almost spot on high estimate.
  • Third Dubuffet makes £253k
  • Willi Baumeister gets a healthy £397k against £300k high est.
  • Richter Abstraktes Bild makes high est £601k
  • Anselm Keifer comes in line at £361k
  • Gursky Shanghai hotel does better than Dubai at £289k
  • Neo Rauch gets bought in
  • Raqib Shaw edges over the high est. but don’t get too excited. The selling price is £63,650
  • Zhang Xiaogang reaches £433,250k, above high est. So there.
  • But Ai Weiwei struggles to £91k
  • Karin Mamma Andersson bought in.

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