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The Middle Market’s Sugar High: New York Contemporary Sales Analysis

November 28, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Wayne Thiebaud, Nine Candy Apples ($1-1.5m) $4.5m

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When you remove the Leonardo painting and the Ferrari Formula 1 car from the New York Contemporary art results, a startling landscape appears that runs almost directly in opposition to the popular impression of the state of the art market. To wit, for all of the disorientation caused by a $450m auction price, the art market is not most active and competitive at the very top. The day sales in Contemporary art were a hotbed of competitive activity and a major increase in sales volume.

The rise of highly managed sales back-stopped by third-party guarantees has meant that a significant portion of the top of the art market is non-competitive. Contrast this with the day sales which achieved a sell-through rate of 88%, just three percentage points below the Evening sales, without the financial supports of third-party guarantees or irrevocable bids.

Nearly 30% of the value in the Contemporary evening sales were sold at the low estimate or below. Almost 83% of the value was sold at or below the high estimate.


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