Sotheby's New York Contemporary sale about to begin. Follow along with us @Sothebys
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Clyfford Still and three other lots withdrawn from the sale with estimate range dropping to $280-$395m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Colen goes for a boring $280k; Bruce High Quality gets to a solid $350k and stops; Rudolf Stingel from 2012 opens with a roar = $1.1m hammer
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Mark Bradford is over $1m in a single breathless bound. pic.twitter.com/Q4RrRfYSAW
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Mark Bradford's Mithra chased by bidders inc Jay Jopling from White Cube, @Sothebys Oli Barker on phones. Makes $2.2m – a record for artist
— charlotte burns (@charlieburns) November 14, 2013
Basquiat, Yellow Feathers is a tennis match of bids to $20m. New bidder comes at $22m Chopped bid counters $22.25m pic.twitter.com/vB3h4rhKP2
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Stepped out for a second. Let's catch up: Bradford makes astonishing$2.2m; Stingel at $1.325m; Gonzalez-Torres = $850k; Cattelan passes.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
#Basquiat 'Untitled (Yellow Tar and Feathers)' sells well above estimate for $25,925,000 @Sothebys in New York pic.twitter.com/8DGpqIa1Wa
— Art Observed (@ArtObserved) November 14, 2013
Jose Mugrabi won a Basquiat for $25.9 mln @Sothebys
— katya kazakina (@artdetective) November 14, 2013
First Dia work, John Chamberlain Candy Andy shows the wisdom of this sale as it glides to $2.4m mid-est. then $2.8m pic.twitter.com/qdxTcy71F0
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Once the $3m mark is broken a tap opens with bids to $3.7m and a new bidder at $3.4m. 6 bidders and it finally goes for $4m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
And Eykyn Maclean wins at $4m
— charlotte burns (@charlieburns) November 14, 2013
Lovely Robert Ryman, Basis from 1998 opens strong and marches to $1.9m just under the high est pic.twitter.com/mhMxmNwx4E
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Silver Car Crash opens at $50m and immediately goes to $60m with a pause before a flurry of 6-handle bids to $70m+ pic.twitter.com/zEsxw8Qjfd
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Silver Car Crash now at $84m and climbing. There's $85m. Still going. $87m, $88m, $89m, $90m.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Huge. The #AndyWarhol 'Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) hammers for $94,000,000 @Sothebys A record for the artist. pic.twitter.com/i5KEwpvdKC
— Art Observed (@ArtObserved) November 14, 2013
#AuctionRecord for #Warhol; 3 bidders battled for Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), driving it to $105m pic.twitter.com/AT5uJZLTyf
— Sotheby's (@Sothebys) November 14, 2013
Agnes Martin is getting some traction with this Lannan Foundation work, The Beach. Breaks $4.5m and still going. pic.twitter.com/AT6VkZCF84
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Agnes Martin makes $5.7m hammer; first of the Dia Twomblys sells below estimate for $520k. That will stir some waters.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Agnes Martin makes $5.7m hammer; first of the Dia Twomblys sells below estimate for $520k. That will stir some waters.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Cohen's Stingel self portrait from 2010 is slowing at $2.1m with a $3m low estimate and a guarantee. Sells there.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Now the Poems to the Sea. An important Twombly work that opens at $4.2m and shoots to $7.5m. Now $8.5, $9m and on pic.twitter.com/jnXwMFY9JD
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
New bidder for the Twombly at $11m and quickly moves to $12m. Now $13m then $14m brings out new bidder. Then $15m with room to go.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Twombly drawing array is on the bubble at $18m as Meyer checks. "Are you sure-sure? It's now $18.5m against you." Breaks $19m. Sells $19.2m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Huge Warhol Flowers is begging for bids at $8.75m. Finally they spot a "timid gesture" bid for $9m. Will it sell? Meyer says he will. $9.25m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Sotheby's has a stake in Warhol's Flowers, 1964, first owned by dealer Leo Castelli and sells now at $10m low est
— charlotte burns (@charlieburns) November 14, 2013
Warhol Flowers makes the low of $10m. Richter comes up at starts at $13.5m and strides to $14.5m in the room. $15m low estimate is bid. $16m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Steven Cohen's Richter crosses the important $20m threshold. Everyone is making money here. They're waiting for every bid. Sells at $23.5m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
#GerhardRichter's 'A.B. Courbet' hammers for $23,500,000 (above estimate) @Sothebys Contemporary Art Evening Sale pic.twitter.com/mV91e57TiU
— Art Observed (@ArtObserved) November 14, 2013
Twombly's Seguso dunks on the $800k high estimate and gains momentum to $880k
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Interesting market test for Joan Mitchell as Atlantic Side comes up and opens at $4.25m. Goes to $6m 20% up from 2007 purchase price.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Dia Chamberlain makes mid-est. $700k. Andy Warhol Liz #1 is dangling at $17.5m and sells for $18m hammer. Thud. pic.twitter.com/rb3262BqXb
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
First pass is a Lichtenstein Puzzle Portrait at $7.25m; Barnett Newman stops cold at $18m low est. Perks up to $18.25m, sells.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
And David Zwirner seems to be the only bidder for the Newman, and wins it at $18.25m @Sothebys
— charlotte burns (@charlieburns) November 14, 2013
Newman, Gensis—The Break sells below estimates for $3.1m; now 1975 de Kooning which sells for $22m with irrevocable bid and guarantee
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Halfway through the sale and the exodus has begun. Dinner reservations are waiting … Meanwhile another Dia Chamberlain hovers at low = $1.5m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Twombly Idilli breaks the high estimate to sell for $2.1m; Guaranteed Twombly sculpture Pfaffikon SZ sells for $1.9m pic.twitter.com/AWtXqnwGpv
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Cohens Green Car Crash has bids to $6.4m a bit short of the $7m low estimate. This too was part of the guaranteed group.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
This Warhol, Statue Of Liberty, has been off the market since selling @Sotheby's in 1999 for £320,500 ($505,999). 4 bidders chase now
— charlotte burns (@charlieburns) November 14, 2013
Rauschenberg, Cage sells for $1m. Warhol statue of liberty fairs better to $2.7m; Lichtenstein Stretcher Frame is all done at $3.7m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Donald Judd boxes make $2.5m, well below estimate range; On Kawara corner piece makes a solid $1.9m hammer
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Murakami brings room to life again with bids to $1.3m pic.twitter.com/KMqcUPbhpT
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Richter abstract sells for $2.3m; Joan Mitchell, No Room at the End sells for $2.1m; Guston, Light on the Green Sea passes at $3.7m.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
de Kooning Woman passes at $2.7m; Chamberlain signaled to sell at half the low estimate. Sells for $850k. Kline sells for $2.5m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Fontana w glass stones makes $1.9m above the high set. by a hair but a good sale. Calder Snowflake Tree slaps the $2m high est. Sold: $3.2m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Nahmad Snr underbids on Calder's Snowflake Tree @Sothebys, loses interest and it hammers on phones at $3.2m
— charlotte burns (@charlieburns) November 14, 2013
David Smith, Agricola XII back on the market after two years sells for $1m. Martin Puryear passes. Dia Twombly sells $230k
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Never seen that before:As a Twombly faltered below est, a dude flung his hand out of the skybox, only to grow sheepish. Art went to another
— Kelly Crow (@KellyCrowWSJ) November 14, 2013
1982 Basquiat, Mecca makes it to $3.85m which isn't the $4m low estimate but it is good enough to take the painting home.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Warhol Camouflage almost goes unnoticed, $2.35m; Twombly, Blue Ridge Mtns … passes at $2.2m; last Dia Twombly = $260k; Agnes Martin = $1.3m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Warhol Camouflage almost goes unnoticed, $2.35m; Twombly, Blue Ridge Mtns … passes at $2.2m; last Dia Twombly = $260k; Agnes Martin = $1.3m
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
Round Jackie sells for $875k; last Chamberlain has no takers at $400k; Calder, Micrometer closes out sale at $1.9m hammer. Good night all.
— Art Market Monitor (@artmarket) November 14, 2013
