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Contemporary Art Evening Auction

17 November 2016 | 7:00 PM EST | New York

SALE TOTAL

276,560,750USD
Browse Lots
  • 13
    Gerhard Richter
    A B, Still
    LOT SOLD.33,987,500USD
  • 38
    Andy Warhol
    Self-Portrait (Fright Wig)
    LOT SOLD.24,425,000USD
  • 6
    Gerhard Richter
    A B, St. James
    LOT SOLD.22,737,500USD
  • 36
    Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Brother's Sausage
    LOT SOLD.18,650,000USD
  • 43
    David Hockney
    Woldgate Woods, 24, 25, and 26 October 2006
    LOT SOLD.11,712,500USD
  • 7
    Willem de Kooning
    Untitled
    LOT SOLD.10,362,500USD
  • 4
    Willem de Kooning
    Untitled XXXIX
    LOT SOLD.9,800,000USD
  • 10
    Gerhard Richter
    Ziege
    LOT SOLD.8,986,000USD
  • 51
    Frank Stella
    Pratfall
    LOT SOLD.8,900,000USD
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Sale Number: N09572 Lots : 64

SALE TOTAL

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Results: Our Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York totaled $276.6 million with 93.8% of lots sold. Gerhard Richter's A B, Still triumphed at $34 million, with a selection of works from the Stephen & Ann Ames Collection bringing a total of $122.8 million. Frenzied bidding was seen for works by Rudolf Stingel, Richard Prince and Philip Guston, with new artist records set for Njideka Akunyili Crosby and David Hockney. Rounding out the night, Andy Warhol's Self-Portrait (Fright Wig) achieved the highest total this week for a work by the artist at $24.4 million. 

Auction Details: Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 17 November will present a particularly spectacular selection of landmarks of recent art history, including The Triumph of Painting: The Steven & Ann Ames Collection. Passionately assembled by Steven & Ann Ames over decades, this collection tells a unique narrative of the development of painting across the past fifty years with masterpieces by Robert Ryman, Georg Baselitz, Willem de Kooning, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter and many others. The evening sale as a whole will survey major touchstones of Contemporary Art, offering truly rare and prestigious exemplars of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism and Postmodernism alongside various groundbreaking paintings and sculptures by the most influential artistic innovators of our times.

View Catalogue: Lots 1-25 | The Steven & Ann Ames Collection

View Catalogue: Lots 26-64

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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
Michael Macaulay
Senior Vice President
Senior International Specialist
Contemporary Art
+1 212 606 7254
michael.macaulay@sothebys.com
Leslie Prouty
Senior Specialist
Senior Vice President
Contemporary Art
+1 212 606 7254
leslie.prouty@sothebys.com
David Galperin
Head of Evening Sale
Senior Vice President
Contemporary Art
+1 212 606 7254
David.Galperin@sothebys.com
Andie Levinson
Cataloguer & Project Coordinator
Contemporary Art
+1 212 894 1511
Andie.Levinson@sothebys.com
   
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