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Bowie Sells Out Across Three Sales = £32.9m

November 14, 2016 by Marion Maneker

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Here are Sotheby’s numbers on the white glove Bowie sale:

Bowie/Collector Sale Totals: £32.9m /$41.1m 

Part I: Modern and Contemporary Art, Evening Auction: £24.3m / $30.3m

Estimate: £8.1-11.7m (47 lots, sale lasted two hours)

Part II: Modern and Contemporary Art, Day Sale: £7.2m / $9.1m

Estimate: £1.7-2.5m (209 lots, lasted seven hours)

Part III: Design: Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Group: £1.4m / $1.7 m

Estimate: £77,070-117,020 (100 lots, lasted 3.5 hours)

Facts and Figures

  • Global exhibitions seen by 55,870+ visitors
  • London Exhibitions in July and November had a total of over 51,470 visitors – the highest attendance for any pre-sale exhibition in London
  • Over 26,500 people watched the sales online
  • Over 1,750 people attended the sales
  • Over a thousand bidders registered through our BIDnow programme, powered by Invaluable

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David Bowie Sale = £24.3m

November 10, 2016 by Marion Maneker

 

sothebys-bowie-saleThe David Bowie Evening sale at Sotheby’s was a white glove sale with every one of the 47 lots sold. The remaining 303 should also find buyers. Here’s Sotheby’s details for some of the highlights:

By the end of a 10-minute battle, eight bidders had driven Frank Auerbach’s mesmerising Head of Gerda Boehm to £3,789,000 ($4,710,106), a record for the artist at auction (est. £300,000-500,000). In an interview with the New York Times in 1998 Bowie described the whole gamut of reactions that this work provoked when he looked at it, exclaiming “My God, yeah!  I want to sound like that looks”.  A portrait of the artist’s cousin, Head of Gerda Boehm was last exhibited at the Royal Academy in London when Bowie lent the work to Auerbach’s much-heralded retrospective in 2001.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Air Power became the most valuable work sold at the auction tonight when it was pursued by six bidders who pushed the final sale price to £7,093,000  ($8,817,308 ) after a 5-minute bidding battle, double the pre-sale high estimate (est. £2.5-3.5m).

A second work by Basquiat, Untitled, also dated 1984, sold for £2,389,000 ($2,969,766), against an estimate of £500,000-700,000.

Damien Hirst’s Beautiful, hallo, space-boy painting, created in collaboration with David Bowie when he visited Hirst’s studio in 1995, tripled its low estimate to sell for £785,000 ($975,834) (est. £250,000-350,000).

A second spin painting by Hirst, Beautiful, Shattering, Slashing, Violent, Pinky, Hacking, Sphincter Painting, also dated 1995, exceeded its pre-sale estimate to sell for £755,000 ($938,540) (est. £250,000-350,000).

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