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Sotheby's Cont. Evening Sale (Highlights)

November 9, 2010 by Marion Maneker

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Warhol Coke Bottle: Hot out of the gate to $22m. Then slow, excruciatingly slow to $31m in 500k increments with 8 bidders showing their hands. Finally knocked down @ $31.5m hammer.

Warhol Last Supper makes the high est. At $6m

Lichtenstein Ice Cream Soda gets stranded @ $11m. Finally, another bidder comes in and then a third to make $12.5m.

Rothko goes to $20m on the irrevocable bid. Sells at low estimate.

Gorky, Housatonic eager phone bidder takes on all comers til $1.1m them out. Serious money dukes it out to $3.2m

De Kooning Montauk also slow starting. Creeps up to $8.8m on 2 bidders.

Rauschenberg pokes through the high estimate to make $7.1m

Bacon Cricketer goes back and forth until they run out of steam at $12.5m

Bourgeois Spider has very eager bidder on the phone with Sotheby’s Barker but gets away for $3.1m despite the $800k high estimate. Seven bidders did their part.

Richter Abstraktesbild goes for a nice round $10m

Richter Sailors gets $11.75m

Noguchi sells for $3.1m

Mehretu for $2m

Stingel passes @ $500k

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Filed Under: Auction Results Tagged With: Contemporary, New York, Sotheby's

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