$ 20.2 million for Andy Warhol’s Sixteen Jackie

“We are very pleased with the results of the bidding process, which allowed the auction to gain a total of $ 128,104,500,” said Tobias Meyer, head of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Department. - During the auction, 47 of the 58 submitted works were sold, and the achieved result exceeded the pre-sale estimate of $ 171.4-120.8 million. Thus, together with the impressive results of the auction of the collection of the famous American gallery owner Allan Stone, the current auction brought Sotheby’s $ 182,910,000, which slightly exceeded the expectations of experts who hoped to gain about $ 218.2-153.6 million during the two-day auction. ”

Speech by Tobias Meyer, head of Sotheby’s contemporary art department, who was more than pleased with the results of the auction, which brought 128,104,500 dollars.
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Andy Warhol - 16 Jackies.
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“Andy Warhol’s work was particularly successful,” Alex Rotter, director of Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Department, shared with correspondents. “We sold six out of seven works by Warhol, earning $ 31 million. Andy Warhol’s sixteen Jackie’s top lot ("Sixteen Jackies"), sold for $ 20,242,500. Another famous work of the master "Shadow - Red" ("Shadow - Red") was bought during lively trading between four opponents for $ 4.8 million, exceeding the upper bar of the preliminary estimate by more than five times. we have Warhol’s works “Statue of Liberty”, which went under the hammer for $ 3,442,500, and the portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy “Round Jackie”, which until today was in the private collection of socialite Dodi Rosencrantz and was sold for $ 3,722,500 ”.

16.8 million dollars brought auction house sculpture group "Pink Panther" ("Pink Panter") by Jeff Koons. A porcelain sculpture depicting a pink panther in the arms of a half-naked blonde is one of the most significant works of the master of those that have ever appeared at auctions. To date, there are three copyright copies of the Pink Panther presented at the auction. Two of them are kept in museums of modern art in Chicago and New York. A third copy of the sculpture was sold at auction in 1999 for $ 1.8 million. Thus, the proceeds from the current auction exceeded the previous value of the sculpture by almost ten times.

Also, above a preliminary estimate, a number of works of art created by contemporary authors over the past 30 years have been sold. For example, the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat “Eroica I”, written in the last year of the artist’s life, went under the hammer for $ 5,906,500 with an estimate of 3-4 million dollars. A canvas by Mark Tancy’s “Shades”, which depicts allegories from the “Republic” of Plato, was sold for $ 3,442,500 with estimey in 3-4 million. The sales leader in the field of photographic art was one of Andreas Gursky’s most famous works, “Rhein I”, for which the auction house raised $ 2,098,500, which is almost twice as much as the starting price of $ 1-1.5 million. Two works of the world-famous sculptor Anish Kapoor exceeded their estimated cost by several times: the sculpture "Turning the world upside down No. 4" went under the hammer for $ 2,434,500 with an estimate of 1.5-2 million dollars, and a completely new work of the master, created in 2009 and entitled as “Untitled” (“Untitled”), was sold for $ 962,500 with an initial estimate of $ 550-750,000.

The leader among the lots dating from the mid-20th century was the work “Concetto Spaziale” (1965) by the Italian abstract artist Lucio Fontana. The value of the product during the bidding reached $ 6.2 million, initially the lot was estimated at 6-8 million. The sculpture made of steel Voltry-Bolton II (1962) by David Smith, which left, did not quite reach the estimated value of $ 3 million under the hammer for $ 2,994,500. The work has been kept in a private collection since 1979. In addition to the “Round Jackie” from the collection of Dodi Rosencrantz, three significant paintings by the French artist Jean Dubuffet were sold, written between 1945 and 1954. The most expensive lot here was “Portrait de Edith Boissonnas”, which went under the hammer for $ 1,142,500 with an estimate of $ 600-800,000.

Buyers were very interested in the work of Alexander Calder: a large sculpture “The Tree” (“The Tree”), the value of which during the auction reached $ 3,386,500 (estimate 2-3 million dollars) and “Constellation with bottles” (“Constellation with Bottles”), which went under the hammer for $ 3,106,500 with estimeyte 3-4 million dollars.

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