Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
First Open
Total: $12,352,550 /8,275,344 /9,509,240 0.6699= $1 / 0.7698=$1 Description Estimate ($) Price Realized
$ 782,500 250,000-350,000 524,220 602,384 $ 626,500 200,000-300,000 419,711 482,292 $ 566,500 379,515, 436,103 $ 374,500 180,000-250,000 250,889 288,298 $ 362,500 200,000-300,000 242,850 279,060 $ 350,500
77
US Private
65
US Private
110
Harry Bertoia, Dandelion from the Hilton Hotel, Denver, stainless steel, executed in 1961.
SECOND HIGHEST PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION
150,000-200,000
Anonymous
111
US Trade
112
US Private
62
180,000-250,000
European Private
90
Andreas Gursky, Atlanta, cibachrome print, executed in 1996 Gerhard Richter, Felsenlandschaft watercolor on paper, drawn in 1984.
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A WATERCOLOR BY THE ARTIST
250,000-350,000
European Private
64
70,000-100,000
European Trade
52
Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Box: Chicken Rice acrylic and silkscreen inks on canvas, painted in 1986.
120,000-180,000
Asian Private
89
180,000-250,000
154,419 177,444
Australia Private
First Open achieved over $12 million in sales-- its highest total to date.
The auction opened with BKLYN works donated by 23 artists to benefit the artistic activities of the Brooklyn Museum, which realized $506,250 (lots 1 23). One of the contributors Dustin Yellin made his debut at auction with I see the Boys of Summer (lot 19)a work that exemplifies the Brooklyn Museum's dedication to young, emerging artists, was sold for $30,000, six times its presale estimate. The 21 works (lots 162 182) offered by artists to support the Artists Space program fund, totaled $830,625. After, a work on paper by Richard Serra estimated 70,000-80,000 was sold for $218,500. The selection of intimately-sized Abstract Expressionist works (lots 113-149) from the Property of a Private Collection, included ones by Adolph Gottlieb, Richard Pousette-Dart, Mark Tobey and Helen Frankenthaler that sold for a total of $1 million. The extremely competitive bidding underscored the ongoing enthusiasm for exceptional examples from one of the most important schools of the 20th century. These works capture the zeitgeist of American Modernism, when artists united to change the course of American art history, and sold with great success. World auction records were fetched by works created by Dorothy Dehner (lot 131) at $ 47,500 and Melville Price (lot 124) at $4,000.
The highlights of the sale were two major works on paper by Gerhard Richter (lot 77) and Peter Doig (lot 65), both of which were held in private collections and unseen for 20 years. While both exceeded their pre-sale estimates. Doigs Cobourg + 1 achieved a new world record for a works on paper by the artist, selling for $626,500. Gerhard Richters Ohne Titel (9.4.86), 1986among the most ambitious works on paper in Richters oeuvre in terms of both scale and execution, was sold for $782,500. We are pleased with the successful prices achieved by artists presented for the first time at auction: Keltie Ferris (lot 76) $68,500, Angel Otero (lot 8) $ 52,500, Aleksandar Duravcevic (lot 15) $8,750, Dustin Yellin (lot 19) $30,000. Significant auction records were set with the sale of works by Mel Bochner (lot 57) and Alfredo Jaar (lot 173), which sold for $74,500 and $62,500, respectively. PRESS CONTACT: Capucine Milliot | +1 212 641 5078| cmilliot@christies.com Estimates do not include buyers premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyers premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyers or sellers credits.