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Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Evening = $343m

November 11, 2014 by Marion Maneker

Jasper Johns, Flag (15-20m) 36m USD
Jasper Johns, Flag (15-20m) 36m USD
Mark Rotho, No 21 44.9656m USD
Dubuffet, Cite Fantoche (4-6m) 7.445m USD
Louise Bourgeois, Spider 1 (4-6m) 7.1m USD
Twombly, Untitled (3-4m) 5.2m USD
Wayne Thiebaud, Hill Street (2.5-3.5m) 4.869m USD
Glenn Ligon, I was Somebody (1-1.5m) 3.973m
Ellsworth Kelly Black Panel 1 (2-3m) 3.693m USD
Lee Ufan, From Line No 760219 (800-1.2m) 2.165m
Calder, Personnage (800-1.2m) 1.865m USD
On Kawara, (700-900k) 1.445m USD
John Chamberlain, Bouquet (400-600k) 941k USD
Glenn Ligon, Warm Broad Glow (400-600k) 935k USD

Sotheby’s press department has these details from the sale:

UNCONFIRMED SALE TOTAL: $343,621,000

85.9% Sold by lot

Artist records set for: Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, Robert Ryman, Jean Dubuffet, for a Glenn Ligon Neon, an Alexander Calder painting.

Works consigned from 12 countries on five continents sought after by participants from 38 countries including nearly 40% from outside the US, and with participation from Latin America and Asia.

The sale was led by Mark Rothko’s No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange) from The Schlumberger Collection which was sought by five bidders before selling for $44,965,000.

Other Schlumberger works that performed well included Jean Dubuffet’s Cité Fantoche which set a record for the artist when it sold for $7,445,000 (est. $4/6 million).

Jasper Johns’ 1983 Flag sold tonight for $36,005,000 to set a new record for the artist at auction after an extended contest between four bidders

Liz #3 (Early Colored Liz) the portrait of Elizabeth Taylor on a distinctive mint background achieved $31,525,000, Brigitte Bardot from the Gunter Sachs Collection sold for $11,645,000, and Self-Portrait (Fright Wig) fetched $11,365,000.

The 1961 Untitled Robert Ryman fetched $15,005,000.

Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild from 1991 drew multiple bidders to fetch $21,445,000

Christopher Wool’s Halloween Fell on a Weekend from 2004 sells for $8,005,000, to exceed the high estimate.

An Untitled Cy Twombly work on paper is sought by 6 bidders before exceeding the high estimate to sell for $5,205,000 to a bidder in the room.

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