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Lot by Lot: Christie's London Cont. Evening Sale

June 30, 2009 by Marion Maneker

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  • Jules de Balincourt opens the sale with £67,250
  • Liu Ye shows Chinese Contemporary is still kicking with £277,250 for Red I
  • Murakami red Flower Ball sells for £289,250
  • Antony Gormley Shift II makes £217,250 which is nicely within estimate range.
  • Hirst Spot painting sells low for £337,250 but that’s still passably good.
  • Christopher Wool goes for just above the high estimate to make £313,250
  • Richard Prince Country Nurse gets £1.7m. That’s low and re-establishes the Nurse threshold around the $3m mark.
  • Warhold self-portrait makes £690k right in line with estimates.
  • Oldenberg soft Popsicle, Hamburger, Price bought in
  • Bruce Nauman Wax Cat makes £175k just over high est of £150k
  • Cover lot, Richter 1025 Farben sells below low est. for £1.38m
  • Gursky Copan also lowers the reserve and makes £241k
  • Doig, Night Playground sells for £3m–collectors are still chasing him.
  • Sol Le Witt Open Geometric Structure 3 squeaks through at £211,250
  • Alighiero Boetti Rosso Gilera/Rosso Guzzi breaks through to double the high est. and sell for £713,250
  • Cy Twombly untitled work gets £802,250 comfortably over the high est.
  • This sale is going well for Christie’s and confirms the relative strength of the Contemporary market.
  • Fontana Concetto Spaziale also blows through the high est. of £400k to sell for £713,250
  • First Dubuffet La Nef handily defeats the estimates and makes £385,250
  • Second, La Coiffeuse is sold for £690,850
  • Pierre Alechinsky makes £277,250 following on the strength of the Continental trend.
  • Big Fontana lot Concetto Spaziale, natura and Concetto spaziale, Attese are bought in
  • Yves Klein ANT 159 also fails to sell. So much for the Continental momentum.
  • Frank Auerbach Mornington Crescent makes £881k well above high est.
  • Auerbach Head of Debbie Ratcliff II makes £343,250
  • Bacon Study for Portrait goes for low est. at £870k
  • Robert Gober work passes and Jeff Koons Flowers sell just under low est at £337k
  • Koons Walrus sells for £361,250
  • Koons Moustache: £1.1m–not so nice.
  • Joana Vasconcelos gets £163,250
  • Basquiat withdrawn
  • Anselm Kiefer £409,250
  • Gilbert & George makes a strong price of £241,250
  • John Baldessari Four Men £169,250–not a great price.
  • Rudolf Stingel £385,250–that’s right at the low est. mark
  • Julie Mehretu Transients, the second Mehretu of the week sells for £229,250
  • Second Stingel £181,250–not so good.
  • Damien Hirst Guardian makes £301,250
  • Zeng Fanzhi Untitled is £229,250
  • Wesselmann Reclining Stockinged Nude #8 reaches £337,250

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