RESULTS | Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction Achieves £45,179,450 / $57,558,619 / €50,510,625
Jean Dubuffet’s Cérémonie (Ceremony) (£8,718,750), Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night) (£8,378,250) and Francis Bacon’s ‘Man at Washbasin’ (£5,109,450) achieved top prices in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Global participation with bidders from 27 countries across 4 continents
30% of registered bidders from Asia
SPIRITED RESPONSE TO NEW ARTISTS IN CHRISTIE’S EVENING AUCTION
Dana Schutz, Home Birth, £467,250
Tschabalala Self, Out of Body, £371,250 (Artist Record)
Derek Boshier, Man Versus Look, Versus Life, Versus Time, Versus Man About, £237,500 (Artist Record)
LIVELY BIDDING FOR WELL PRICED WORKS
Jonas Burgert, Suchtpuls (Addicted to Pulse), £419,250
Kara Walker, Four Idioms on Negro Art #4 Primitivism, £395,250
René Daniëls, Borsalino, £137,500
*ARTIST RECORDS*
Derek Boshier, Man Versus Look, Versus Life, Versus Time, Versus Man About, £237,500
Jonas Burgert, Suchtpuls (Addicted to Pulse), £419,250
Tschabalala Self, Out of Body, £371,250
Kara Walker, Four Idioms on Negro Art #4 Primitivism, £395,250
Gerhard Richter, Musa, £1,031,250 – World Auction Record for a Tapestry by the Artist
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Auctions continue on 26 June 2019, with the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction.