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Christie’s Frieze Evening = £54.5m ($88.1m)

October 21, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Martin Kippenberger, Nieder mit der Bourgeosie (900-1.2m) 1.8m GBP
Peter Doig, Red Canoe (800-1.2m) 1.76m GBP
Pino Pascali, Muro di Pietra (400-600k ) 1.65m GBP
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese (500-800k) 1.3m GBP
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Nets (TWA) (500-700k) 1.3m GBP
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attesa (600-800k) 1.14m GBP
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attese (300-400k) 890k GBP
Alberto Burri, Combustione (400-500k) 866k GBP
Thomas Schutte, San Zaccaria, Venice (150-200k) 698k GBP
Enrico Castellani, Superficie Bianca (200-300k) 422,500 GBP
Robert Longo, Untitled (Phoenix) (120-180k) 422k GBP
Lucian Freud, The Painter’s Mother (120-180k) 314k GBP

Post-War 
& Contemporary Art

The Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised a total of £27,788,900 ($44,879,074 / €32,790,902), selling91% by lot against a pre-sale estimate of £20.3 million to £29.2 million. 9 lots sold for over £1 million / 12 for over $1 million.

With buyers from 19 countries across 4 continents

Böcklin’s Tomb (copied from ‘Floating Cities’, 1981, by Chris Foss), 1998, by Glenn Brown sold for £2,322,500 ($3,750,838 / €2,740,550).

Nieder mit der Bourgeoisie (Down with the Bourgeoisie), 1983, by Martin Kippenberger sold for £1,818,500 ($2,936,878 / €2,145,830).

Red Canoe by Peter Doig sold for £1,762,500 / $2,846,438 / €2,079,750.

The Italian Sale

The Italian Sale achieved £26,798,000 ($43,278,770 / €31,621,640) – the highest ever total for an auction of 20thcentury Italian art. It was 92% sold by lot against a pre-sale estimate of £15.6m – £22.0m.

8 lots sold for over £1 million / 14 for over $1 million.

The top price was paid for Sacco by Alberto Burri which realised £2,994,500 ($4,836,118 / €3,533,510).

Concetto spaziale, Attesa, 1967, by Lucio Fontana sold for £1,986,500 ($3,208,198 / €2,344,070), while anotherConcetto spaziale, Attesa from 1968 realized £1,818,500 ($2,936,878 / €2,145,830).

Muro di pietra (Pietra pietra) Wall of stone (Stone stone) by Pino Pascali sold for £1,650,500 / $2,665,558 / €1,947,590 – a world record price for the artist at auction. A vast 3-metre-long, 2-metre-high wall-like structure comprised of a sequence of rectangular sponge blocks each bearing the stenciled misnomer ‘Pietra’ (Stone), this is a work that explodes the traditional boundaries between painting, sculpture, language, theatre and environment. Executed in 1964, it is one of a pioneering sequence of semi-theatrical ‘object-sculptures’ that Pascali exhibited together at his first one-man show at the Galleria La Tartaruga, in Rome in 1965.

ARTIST RECORDS: 

Post-War & Contemporary Art 

Lot 1                Josephine Meckseper   (£52,500 / $84,788 / €61,950)

Lot 4                Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (£146,500 / $236,598 / €172,870)

Lot 21              Sarah Lucas        (£290,500 / $469,158 / €342,790)

Lot 34              Ryan Trecartin                           (£37,500 / $60,563 / €44,250)

The Italian Sale

Lot 60              Marina Apollonio         (£40,000 / $64,600 / €47,200)

Lot 62              Paolo Scheggi        (£218,500 / $352,878 / €257,930)

Lot 80              Mario Schifano      (£314,500 / $507,918 / €371,110)

Lot 81              Pino Pascali        (£1,650,500 / $2,665,558 / €1,947,590)

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