POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE ~ 10 NOVEMBER 2009 7PM

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Lot 19 is withdrawn–Warhol Most Wanted–not a good sign.

And we’re off!

LOT 1 Robert Rauschenberg Untitled $100,000 – $150,000

–Bids from all over well into $700k range. Luhring gets it at $780k

LOT 2 Philip Guston Untitled $150,000 – $200,000

–scoots to $450k on the telephone.

LOT 3 Jasper Johns Dancers on a Plane $1,500,000 – $2,000,000

–room drives it to $3m but new bidders take over and go to $3.8m on phone.

LOT 4 Robert Rauschenberg Untitled $100,000 – $150,000

–$190,000 after several rounds

LOT 5 Robert Rauschenberg Untitled $200,000 – $300,000

–Sells at a very low $80k to the order book. Great deal.

LOT 6 Robert Rauschenberg No. 1 $800,000 – $1,200,000

–Black painting stalls out at $600 but eeks out $800k [private_subscriber][private_bundle]

LOT 7 Andy Warhol Heinz Tomato Ketchup with Campbell’s Soup Can $1,000,000 – $1,500,000

–Squeezing bids at $875,000 and sells there.

LOT 8 Jeff Koons Large Vase of Flowers $4,000,000 – $6,000,000

–$5m takes it

LOT 9 David Smith Abandoned Foundation (Landscape) $600,000 – $800,000

–Two bidders in a dogfight getting it close to $1m; crosses amid chopped bids to $1.2m

LOT 10 Willem de Kooning Untitled (Woman) $600,000 – $800,000

–$825k for the little work

LOT 11 Joan Mitchell Untitled $5,000,000 – $7,000,000

–$4.8m to one bidder against a third party guarantee.

LOT 12 Alexander Calder Untitled $1,000,000 – $1,500,000

–$3.1m

LOT 13 Peter Doig Reflection (What does your soul look like) $4,000,000 – $6,000,000

–Doig watches as a half dozen–including Jay Jopling–drive it to $9m with Jopling’s last bid coming too late.

LOT 14 Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled $1,800,000 – $2,800,000

–$2.7m in a frenzy of bids

LOT 15 Roy Lichtenstein Collage for Nude with Street Scene Painting $600,000 – $800,000

–$1.1m takes it

LOT 16 Jean-Michel Basquiat Brother’s Sausage $9,000,000 – $12,000,000

–No bids! Pass

LOT 17 Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled (14 Drawings) $500,000 – $700,000

–Two buyers beating each other’s brains out. Segalot v. telephone. Segalot wins at $7m.

LOT 18 Jeff Koons New Shelton Wet/Dry 5-Gallon, New Hoover Convertible Doubledecker $2,000,000 – $3,000,000

–Segalot again at $2.7m

LOT 20 Cy Twombly Untitled $250,000 – $350,000

–$600k takes it.

LOT 21 Brice Marden Untitled with Green $900,000 – $1,200,000

–$1.75m

LOT 22 Donald Judd Untitled, 1968 (DSS 120) $2,500,000 – $4,500,000

–$4.3m

LOT 23 Ellsworth Kelly White Black $700,000 – $1,000,000

–$700k

LOT 24 Larry Bell L. Bell’s House, Part II $300,000 – $500,000

–passes at $250k

LOT 25 Andy Warhol Tunafish Disaster $6,000,000 – $8,000,000

–passes at $4.7m

LOT 26 Yayoi Kusama Valise $250,000 – $350,000

–passes at $190k

LOT 27 Robert Smithson Untitled $350,000 – $450,000

–Blonde woman jumps bids three time but it keeps on going to $750k

LOT 28 Yayoi Kusama NO. A $1,000,000 – $1,500,000

–strong bids in the room to $1.6m

LOT 29 Takashi Murakami Magic Ball II (Negative) $1,000,000 – $1,500,000

–struggles at $880 and passes.

LOT 30 Martin Puryear Confessional $500,000 – $700,000

–passes ay $400k

LOT 31 Agnes Martin Untitled #10 $1,200,000 – $1,800,000

–$1.1 with few bids

LOT 32 Franz Kline Untitled $200,000 – $300,000

–seels for $180k

LOT 33 Mark Rothko Blue, Red, Black on Red $1,500,000 – $2,000,000

–$1.75m

LOT 34 Willem de Kooning Composition $800,000 – $1,200,000

–sells for $650k

LOT 35 Alexander Calder Constellation with Red Knife $1,500,000 – $2,500,000

–$2.05m

LOT 36 Sam Francis Japan Line $1,500,000 – $2,000,000

–$1.5m

LOT 37 John Chamberlain Ruby-Ruby $600,000 – $800,000

–$750k

LOT 38 Robert Motherwell Spanish Elegy No. 17 $300,000 – $400,000

–$310k takes it home.

LOT 39 Willem de Kooning Two Women II $1,500,000 – $2,000,000

–$1.65m

LOT 40 Mark Rothko Untitled (Gray and Mauve) $1,500,000 – $2,000,000

–$1.7m

LOT 41 Jeff Koons Wishing Well $1,200,000 – $1,800,000

–$950k and it sells there

LOT 42 Kerry James Marshall Great America $400,000 – $600,000

–passes at $300k

LOT 43 Andy Warhol Michael Jackson $500,000 – $700,000

–makes it to %500k before bidders wake up and start bidding to %675k

LOT 44 Tom Wesselmann Mel’s Model $800,000 – $1,200,000

–$700k actually gets it

LOT 45 Luc Tuymans Maypole $500,000 – $700,000

–$600k (?)

LOT 46 Kara Walker Picturesque $250,000 – $350,000

–sells for $200k

LOT 47 Marc Newson Pod of Drawers $500,000 – $700,000

–$380k [/private_subscriber][/private_bundle]