RESULTS: POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART DAY AUCTION
163 lots sold | Total: £14,406,575 /$23,165,773/€18,065,845 | 93% sold by lot | ||||
193 lots offered | $1.608= £1 / €1.254=£1 | 84% sold by value | ||||
Lot | Description | Estimate (£) | Price Realised | Buyer | ||
285
| Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Barbie, Portrait of BillyBoy*, Executed in 1986 | 200,000 - 300,000 | £722,500 $1,161,780 €906,015 | Anonymous | ||
260
| David Hockney (b. 1937), Ravel's Garden 3, Executed in 1980 | 400,000 - 600,000 | £578,500 $930,228 €725,439 | Anonymous | ||
286
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Robert Indiana (b. 1928), Love, Executed in 1966-2000
| 280,000 - 350,000 | £386,500 $621,492 €484,671 | Anonymous | ||
239
| Sigmar Polke (1941-2010), Untitled, Executed in 1993 | 250,000 - 350,000 | £386,500 $621,492 €484,671 | Anonymous | ||
253
| Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Untitled (13.4.86), Executed in 1986 | 150,000 - 200,000 | £374,500 $602,196 €469,623 | Anonymous | ||
229
| Otto Piene (1928-2014), Due onde nell’oscurità (Two waves in the dark). Executed in 1963 | 150,000 - 200,000 | £362,500 $582,900 €454,575 | Anonymous | ||
221
| Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969), Bleu rouge gris vert (Blue, Red, Grey, Green), Painted in 1963 | 180,000 - 250,000 | £362,500 $582,900 €454,575 | Anonymous | ||
238
| Neo Rauch (b. 1960), Malerei (Painting), Executed in 1999 | 150,000 - 200,000 | £350,500 $563,604 €439,527 | Anonymous | ||
217
| Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Abstraktes Bild, Executed in 1988 | 180,000 - 250,000 | £350,500 $563,604 €439,527 | Anonymous | ||
230 | Roman Opalka (1931-2011), 1965/1-8, Detail 2890944-2910059, | 250,000 – 350,000 | £338,500 $544,308 €424,479 | Anonymous | ||
Cristian Albu and Rosanna Widen, co-heads of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction comment: ‘This was a record October Day Auction. We saw particularly strong prices for German artists – the Richters and Schuttes and German art in general sold particularly well. We saw truly global bidding for Andy Warhol’s Barbie, Portrait of BillyBoy*, which doubled its high estimate, selling for £600,000 to an Asian buyer. The success of the Day Auction comes down to presenting and curating interesting sales, providing quality works at accessible prices – both from established names and younger artists - with an enormous amount of material fresh to the market, as highlighted by the fantastic success of a previously unseen Martin Kippenberger painting.’
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Estimates do not include buyer’s premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.
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