Christie’s PWC Top Ten & Records

Peter Norton’s collection brought a lot of record prices at Christie’s tonight. Here are all the records, though not all were owned by Norton:

Barbara Kruger – $902,500 for Untitled (When I hear the word culture I take out my checkbook), 1985
Paul McCarthy – $4,562,500 for Tomato Head (Green), 1994
Glenn Ligon – $1,178,500 for Untitled (Stranger in the Village #17), 2000
Mona Hatoum – $470,500 for Silence executed in 1994.
Sophie Calle – $218,500 for The Sleepers (Les dormeurs), executed in 1979
Charles Ray – $3,106,500 for Table, plexiglas and steel, executed in 1990
Yinka Shonibare MBE – $194,500 for Hound, executed in 2000
Christian Marclay – $266,500 for Guitar Neck, executed in 1992
Fred Tomaselli – $1,650,500 for Untitled (Expulsion), executed in 2000
Vija Celmins – $902,500 for Sea Drawing with Whale, circa 1969
Andreas Gursky – $4,338,500 for Rhein II, executed in 1999; WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR ANY PHOTOGRAPH SOLD AT AUCTION