As part of its May 2017 Contemporary art sales, Sotheby’s has announced a large, six-panel work by Rudolf Stingel that is priced to set a record for the artist (though by the time it is auctioned there is likely to be a new record for the artist from the massive self-portrait expected to sell at Christie’s.) Two years ago, Phillips tied the record for the artist with the sale of a four-panel version of a similar work from the series for $4.75m.
Rudolf Stingel’s Untitled is an exceptional paradigm of the artist’s electroplated copper reliefs. The 2012 work, estimated to fetch $5/7 million, is particularly rare in its monumental configuration of six joined panels, measuring 94 1/2 by 141 3/4 by 1 1/2 inches overall.
