
Last week, ahead of its upcoming London 20th century art evening sales, Sotheby’s saw its New York mid-season “Contemporary Curated” auction achieve a hammer total of $19.3 million ($24.3 million with buyer’s premium). The result was just above the $18.1 million pre-sale low estimate, realizing an 87 percent sell-through rate across 110 lots.
The sale offered a mix of works by emerging and mid-career blue-chip artists, and its total was below the equivalent March 2020 sale, which made $31.8 million across 209 lots. It was also below the $36.8 million achieved across 265 lots in the spring 2019 edition.