All prices are for hammer without premiums. (Inka Essenhigh’s Lot 33 withdrawn from the sale.)
- Simon starts off with Gert & Uwe Tobias’s Untitled work grinding out bids to £26,000
- Sergej Jensen Odd Couple struggles to get past low est. £21k
- Barry McGee Untitled gets to £18k
- Mark Grotjahn blows through the high est of £100,000 and makes £120,000.
- Wim Delvoye Clio also plows through the £35k high est. and gets to £70,000
- James Turrell Acro, Blue passes
- Mario Merz Untitled just makes the low est. of £180,000
- Florian Maier-Aichen Untitled work is bid up to £42,000 above high est.
- Roni Horn Seen in the Distance £68,000 against a £45k high est.
- Warhol Five Guns pokes up into the estimate range and sells for £175,000
- Ed Ruscha That Was Then This is Now gets up to low est. and stalls to sell for £600,000
- Richard Prince Spiritual America passes at £280k failing to make the £400k low.
- Jack Goldstein Untitled fights to £30,000 high est. and then turns into an epic bidding war in £1,000 increments to £88k currently and still rising.
- Simon de Pury: “We’ll take as long to sell this lot as the whole rest of the sale.”
- Jack Goldstein finally sells for £100,000
- Thomas Schutte Stahlfrau No. 7 £380,000
- John Chamberlain Mr. Moto £440,000
- Robert Rauschenberg Wolf Wood £240,000–just under the low est.
- Anselm Reyle foil work £70,000 below low est.
- Jeff Koons Mermaid Troll sells for £200,000 significantly below est.
- Zhang Xiaogang Untitled bought in at £260,000
- Ed Ruscha Doric bought in £220k just short of the £250k low est.
- Richter Schatten 6 goes for £110k just below low est.
- Wilhelm Sasnal Cemetery sells for £30,000 despite low est. of £50k
- Kehinde Wiley Passing/Posing – St. Helena goes above est. range to make £42,000
- Robert Indian Art makes £170,000 in the bidding but passes
- Yan Pei-Ming Timonier 009 stalls out at £100,000 against £150,000 low est.
- Yoshitomo Nara Your Dog sold for 121,250 premium
- Yue Minjun untitled £350,000 takes it over the high est.
- Alighiero Boetti gets 181,250 premium
- Kenneth Noland is bid to 121,250 premium
- Tal R Fungusia passes at £48,000
- Anselm Reyle stripe painting sells for £70,000
- Feng Zhengjie Chinese Portrait P Series goes over the £70k high est. to £81,000
- Michael Raedecker ins and outs tops the £60k high to reach £92,000
- Wang Guangyi Art Go passes at £65,000
- Damien Hirst spin painting £160,000
- Jonathan Meese Die Verschworung des Dr. sells for high est. of £80,000
- Jitish Kallat Collidonthous passes at £68,000
- Wim Delvoye Cabinet breaks through the high est. at the last bid to make £70,000
- Ashley Bickerton Herr Schoendorff is the final lot and it sells for a healthy £42,000 above £20k high est.