The quantity of Warhol works on the market this past week was fairly astounding. Works ranged from the very top lots of the week at $63m to some remaining five-figure items. Altogether there was more than $200m in Warhol’s work sold at the three auction houses.

That made a lot art market participants nervous judging by their comments coming out of the sales. Here’s Lindsay Pollock:

“We dealers thought: Here were too many Warhols,” said New York-based Christophe Van de Weghe. “But it was the exact opposite effect.”

And Judd Tully:

“There’s a huge demand for Warhol under $10 million, and over that it becomes very selective. Having three high-value Warhols in one week divided the market.”

Interestingly, later works of Warhol — dating from the 70s and 80s, a period in the artist’s career that has gained increased attention over the past year as a result of a recent traveling museum exhibition — performed better, in comparison to their estimates, than mint works from the 60s.

Christie’s, which had the largest number of works, sold everything on hand. Sotheby’s had a higher average price than Christie’s.

But in the day sales the avg. price reversed with Sotheby’s averaging $228,476 and Christie’s averaging $426,761.

Here (Week of Warhol) is a list of all the works on offer this last week sorted from highest to lowest price.

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