Carte Blanche Overview – the sale totaled $117,055,000, selling 90.90% by lot
Contemporary Art Part I Overview – the sale totaled $19,973,000, selling 84.61% by lot
Lot 15 Andy Warhol, Men in Her Life $63,362,500
Lot 10 Takashi Murakami, Miss ko2, $6,802,500
Lot 8 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Self-Portrait, $4,562,500
Lot 4 Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Portrait of Marcel Brient), $4,562,500
Lot 115 Ed Ruscha, Sex at Noon Taxes, $4,338,500
Lot 32 Thomas Schütte, Grosse Geist No. 16, $4,114,500
Lot 116 Roy Lichtenstein, Two Figures, Indian, $3,890,500
Lot 20 Christopher Wool, Untitled (W 24), $3,666,500
Lot 23 Robert Ryman, NO TITLE REQUIRED, $3,442,500
Lot 6 Maurizio Cattelan, Charlie, $2,994,500
46% of the sale total was in a single painting; the top ten lots comprised nearly 72% of the sale total. Surely, the Warhol, Men in Her Life was priced in the shadow of Green Car Crash which made $71m at the height of the art boom in the Spring of 2007.
Is the bubble back in Contemporary art?
Artist Records:
Lot 4 Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Portrait of Marcel Brient), $4,562,500
Lot 14 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #153, $2,770,500
Lot 25 Daniel Buren, Peinture email sur toile de cotton, $542,500
Lot 26 Lee Lorano, No Title, $602,500
Lot 27 Robert Morris, Untitled, $1,258,500
Lot 29 Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, $2,658,500
Lot 32 Thomas Schütte, Grosse Geist No. 16, $4,114,500
Lot 124 Wade Guyton, Untitled, $302,500
Lot 125 Martin Creed, Work no. 202: Half the air in a given space, $98,500