21ST CENTURY EVENING SALE TOTALS $107,451,800
New York – Christie’s New York kicked off Fall Marquee Week with the 21st Century Evening Sale live at its storied Rockefeller Center saleroom, on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. The evening’s total was $107,451,800 selling 95% by lot, and 95% hammer against low estimate. The 41-lot sale saw fantastic global participation with 66% of bidders from Americas, 18% from EMEA, and 16% from APAC. More than 10% of buyers were millennials. Christie’s set five records during the sale: Jenna Gribbon’s Regarding Me Regarding You and Me, brought $478,800; Jia Aili’s Combustion made $4,769,000; Jadé Fadojutimi’s A Thistle Throb achieved $1,683,500; Ilana Savdie’s A High-pitched Complicity sold for $201,600, and Lalanne’s Mouton de laine sold for $1,502,000—the highest total for a single Lalanne Mouton.
The top lot of the evening was Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version II), which realized a price of $19,960,000. The second highest price came for Basquiat’s Untitled which achieved $11,910,000.
Female artists, who represented a fourth of the sale, performed exceptionally well, exemplified by the first lot of the evening, Stefanie Heinze’s Third Date, which sold for $239,400 against a low estimate of $60,000 and Issy Wood’s Fanta Car Interior, which made $277,200 against a low estimate of $80,000. Artists of color also saw strong results: Eat dem Taters by Robert Colescott sold for $3,922,000, Night 1 by Matthew Wong achieved $4,164,000, and Intersection of Color: Loge by Reggie Burrows Hodges
matched the record for the artist, selling for $730,800.
Kat Widing, Head of the 21st Century Evening Sale, said, “It is such an honor to kick off this season’s Marquee Week with the 21st Century Evening Sale. Since we began the 20/21 sale format two years ago, we have used this dynamic sale platform of the 21st Century Evening Sale to showcase best-inclass artwork by a diverse group of contemporary artists. Tonight, we were thrilled to see fantastic results for all ten lots by female artists, with records for Ilana Savdie, Jenna Gribbon, and Jadé Fadojutimi, as well as for many artists of color, including Reggie Burrows Hodges.”
Fall Marquee Week Sales continue with the 20th Century Evening Sale, taking place Thursday 9 November 2023 beginning live at 6:30PM.
