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Christie’s PWC Top Ten & Records

November 9, 2011 by Marion Maneker

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

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

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