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'1 in 11' Auction

RESULTS

Sotheby’s fundraising auction to benefit the ‘1 in 11’ campaign raised a final total of £2,663,000 million. The sale kicked off with a bespoke football designed by Takashi Murakami and signed by both Lionel Messi and the artist, which soared above its pre-sale estimate of £500-1,000 to £45,000. The top lot of the evening was Jeff Koons’s Donkey (Yellow) from 1999, which sold for £557,000. Two paintings depicting Lionel Messi by Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami sold for a combined total of £6.82 million.

AUCTION DETAILS

Important Notice: This sale is subject to the new buyer's premium rates that came into effect 1 February 2015. To view the updated rates please CLICK HERE

Sotheby’s is delighted to support the '1 in 11' campaign; a unique partnership between three internationally recognised organisations, FC Barcelona Foundation, Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) and UNICEF, founded to help vulnerable children in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal access a quality education and unlock their potential. Led by two specially commissioned works; Takashi Murakami’s Lionel Messi and a Universe of Flowers and Damien Hirst’s Beautiful Messi Spin Painting for One in Eleven,  the ‘1 in 11’ auction presents a fantastic array of artworks, kindly donated in support of this campaign, from Middle-Eastern artists such as Dia Azzawi, Wael Shawky and Etel Adnan, to international names such as Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, Luc Tuymans and Yan Pei-Ming.

For more information about '1 in 11' please go to www.1in11.org.

If you would like to attend the auction please pre-register your interest with our bids department. Please call +44 (0)20 7293 5283 or email bids.london@sothebys.com for further information.