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Contemporary Art Evening Auction

16 May 2018 | 7:00 PM EDT | New York

SALE TOTAL

284,542,500USD
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  • Lot 24
    Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Flesh and Spirit
    Lot Sold: 30,711,000 USD

  • Lot 14
    Jackson Pollock
    Number 32, 1949
    Lot Sold: 34,098,000 USD

  • Lot 21
    David Hockney
    Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica
    Lot Sold: 28,453,000 USD

  • Lot 5A
    Kerry James Marshall
    Past Times

    Lot Sold: 21,114,500 USD

  • Lot 16
    Gerhard Richter
    Abstraktes Bild
    Lot Sold: 16,563,000 USD

  • Lot 27
    Mark Bradford
    Visible Giant
    Lot Sold: 4,631,000 USD

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Sale Number: N09858 Lots : 49

SALE TOTAL

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Auction Results: Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction this May was a resounding triumph, with 97.3% of works sold and an astonishing 15 new world auction records established. Kicking off the evening was the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel, comprising 26 exceptional twentieth-century works, which achieved $107.8 million in a prestigious ‘white glove’ auction with full proceeds benefitting the Mandel Foundation. Following this extraordinary collection, the five works sold to benefit The Studio Museum in Harlem’s new building project totaled $16.4 million and set a new record for Njideka Akunyili Crosby when Bush Babies fetched $3.4 million, quadrupling its pre-sale high estimate. The remaining 14 auction records from the evening included unprecedented prices paid for both emerging and established artists such as David Hockney, Kerry James Marshall, John Chamberlain, Cecily Brown, Grace Hartigan, Barkley Hendricks, and Avery Singer, among others, in a sale that has reshaped how the market will conceive of ‘blue chip’ works.   
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Auction Details: This May, Sotheby’s is pleased to offer a selection of superb examples by some of the most exciting and innovative artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Ranging from masterworks by the leading Abstract Expressionists, whose groundbreaking work in the wake of World War II forever transformed the very possibilities of art, to sculptors expanding the traditional boundaries of three-dimensional space, to a group of trailblazing African-American artists who have donated works to benefit the Studio Museum in Harlem, the artists represented in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction this May have possessed a prescient eye and demonstrated a fearless drive to push traditional boundaries.

Immediately preceding the Contemporary Art Evening Auction, Sotheby’s will present the collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel, a superb group of Modern and Contemporary Artworks.

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Grégoire Billault
Senior Vice President
Head of Contemporary Art,
New York
+1 212 606 7254
gregoire.billault@sothebys.com
Amy Cappellazzo
Chairman
Executive Vice President
+1 212 606 7254
Allan Schwartzman
Chairman
Executive Vice President
+1 212-606-7533
Allan.Schwartzman@sothebys.com
Leslie Prouty
Senior Specialist
Senior Vice President
Contemporary Art
+1 212 606 7254
leslie.prouty@sothebys.com
Michael Macaulay
Senior Vice President
Senior International Specialist
Contemporary Art
+1 212 606 7254
michael.macaulay@sothebys.com
Saara Pritchard
Senior Specialist, Senior Vice President
Contemporary Art
Saara.Pritchard@sothebys.com
David Galperin
Head of Evening Sale
Senior Vice President
Contemporary Art
+1 212 606 7254
David.Galperin@sothebys.com
Kelsey Leonard
Associate Specialist
Contemporary Art
+212 894 1032
Kelsey.Leonard@sothebys.com
   
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