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LAMA Spring Auction = $2.032m

May 24, 2016 by Marion Maneker

May 22, 2016 Modern Art & Design Auction
Shiela Hicks, Untitled ($40-60k) $125k | Artist’s Record

Los Angeles Modern Auctions held a sale over the weekend that brought in $2m against 326 lots

  1. Isamu Noguchi, Chess Table (1944-1947), (Lot 184, est. $100,000–150,000) realized $137,500
  2. Sheila Hicks, Untitled (1975), (Lot 200, est. $40,000–60,000) brought $125,000, setting an auction record for the artist
  3. Jules Olitski, Love of Ariel (1989), (Lot 229, est. $20,000–30,000) realized $102,500
  4. Tom Wesselmann, Stockinged Nude, Edition #2 (1980), (Lot 34, est. $35,000–$45,000) fetched $71,875
  5. Ken Price, L.A. Riot (1994), (Lot 84, est. $20,000–30,000) realized $58,750, setting an auction record for a work on paper by the artist
  6. Harry Bertoia, Untitled (Sonambient) (c. 1965), (Lot 199, est. $40,000–60,000) realized $53,125
  7. John Register, Motel: Route 66 (1991), (Lot 241, est. $40,000–60,000) totaled $50,000
  8. Harry Bertoia, Untitled (Sonambient) (c. 1965), (Lot 197, est. $30,000–50,000) brought $36,250
  9. Francis Bacon, Triptych (1981), (Lot 165, est. $15,000–20,000) realized $34,375
  10. Andy Warhol, Old Fashioned Vegetable (from Campbell’s Soup II) (1969), (Lot 27, est. $12,000–18,000) brought $28,750

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