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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.
