Los Angeles Modern Auctions = $4.33m

LAMA’s October auction did very well with Mike Kelley’s work on paper setting a record for the artist and Ed Ruscha setting a record for a print:

TOP LOTS:

• Mike Kelley, Nazi War Cave #1  (Lot 215 est. $400,000 – 600,000) realized $740,000, setting an auction record for a work on paper by the artist
• Ed Ruscha, Double Standard (Lot 75 est. $50,000 – 70,000) realized $206,250, setting an auction record for any print by the artist
• Maria Pergay, “Flying Carpet” Daybed (Lot 187 est. $100,000 – 150,000) brought $162,500, setting an auction record for the design
• Alberto Giacometti, “Lampadaire a tete de Femme” (Lot 191 est. $80,000 – 120,000) fetched $162,500
• Richard Pettibone, Andy Warhol, Most Wanted Men  (Lot 330 est. $100,000 – 150,000) realized $112,500
• Alexander Calder, Systeme Solaire Dont un Blanc (Lot 371 est. $80,000 – 100,000)
  realized $100,000
• Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams, Baby! (Lot 314 est. $70,000 – 90,000) realized $93,750
• Robert Mapplethorpe Self Portrait (Lot 333 est. $25,000 – 35,000) brought $87,500, setting an auction record for the edition
• Frederick Hammersley, In Two #27  (Lot 366 est. $30,000 – 50,000) totaled $81,250
• John Baldessari, Three Moments (Lot 435 est. $6,000 – 9,000) exceeded the pre-sale estimate bringing $53,125