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Christie's PWC Evening Sale Highlights

November 10, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Twombly: Hot out of the gate; sprints to $2.05m
Calder also $2.1m
Wool right in estimates at $1.5m
Twombly bronze goes for $2.4m leaving a stranded late bidder.
Lichtenstein stalls out at $38m
Warhol Soup Can with Opener sells but at $21.25m. Huge disappointment for the top of the Warhol market.
Warhol Brillo Box breaks out to $2.65m. High est was $800k
Warhol Tomato Soup keeps going like the Energizer bunny until it makes the $8m high est.
Warhol Two Guns makes a strong $3.9m
Mark Tansey also beats est @ $4.1m
Rothko bought in @ $8.5m
Richter Two Candles sells just below the estimate at $11.5m
Grotjahn $1.25m almost twice the high est.
Johns 0 thru 9 passes @ $7.5m. Another blow.
Thiebaud Outbox doubles the high est to make $1.3m
Sherman Centerfold doubles the high est to $1.2m
Joan Mitchell chugs along to $3.7m
Morris Louis $2.6m

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

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