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Sotheby’s NY Cont Day = $63.9m

May 10, 2012 by Marion Maneker

 

  • Alexander Calder’s standing mobile The Orange Table which has been in the same family collection for nearly 70 years. The 1943 piece sold for $2,546,500 – the highest price achieved for a work in a Contemporary Art Day sale at Sotheby’s since May 2008.
  • Gerhard Richter, whose Abstraktes Bild (595-3) from 1986 continued a series of strong prices for the artist when it sold for $2,098,500
  • Andy Warhol Jackie from 1964 beating the estimate to fetch $1,202,500
  • Andy Warhol, 1963 Ambulance Disaster also exceeding the estimate to sell for $962,500.
  • Takashi Murakami, Kanye Bear which comfortably exceeded the high estimate to sell for $1,202,500 
  • David Hockney’s Palm Reflected in Pool, Arizona which sold for $962,500, well over the $250/300,000 estimate.
  • Jean Dubuffet, Arabe gesticulante selling for 1,258,500, many multiples of the $50/70,000 estimate

 

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

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