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Sotheby’s Big Little Sale

March 1, 2019 by Marion Maneker

Contemporary Curated makes $36.8m on $7.3m Kerry James Marshall painting and $2.6m Jack Whitten; Marc Benioff Doesn't Want Your Tax Deduction.

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Sotheby’s mid-season Contemporary sale totaled $36.8m, building upon the $30.8m the same sale pulled in last September and the $26m from a year before. As with September, one of the top lots was a Kerry James Marshall work. But this time it was painting that ignited a prolonged all-hands bidding war that resulted in a $7.3m price that was nearly triple the high estimate. The five-times-the-high-estimate sale of Jack Whitten’s $2.6m Special Checking was very special indeed. Alice Neel’s Connie—bid upon and won by Amy Cappellazzo—also showed the sale’s organizer, Charlotte Van Dercook, was right to declare the painter undervalued.


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