On 13 and 14 February Christie’s Auctions of Post-War & Contemporary Art in London welcomed new and established bidders in their 20s through to their 80s who competed for works at every price level, resulting a combined total of £96,306,275 / $150,418,090 / €111,575,060. Buyers from 33 countries on 5 continents, demonstrate a truly global appetite for the category. In total, 19 works sold for over £1 million (27 for over $1 million).
The top price of the week was paid for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), which sold in the Evening Auction for £9,337,250 / $14,603,459 / €10,821,873 (evening auction; lot 30; estimate: £7 to £9 million; illustrated above centre).
The top lot of the Day Auction was Robert Indiana’s Love, which sold for £565,250 / $876,137 / €653,429 (lot 192; estimate: £450,000-550,000; illustrated above right).
A selection of 71 works of art from the Collection of Mrs. Ingvild Goetz totalled £6,741,026 / $10,448,590 / €7,792,625. The top lot of the collection was Christopher Wool’s Mad Cow, which sold for £2,281,250 / $3,567,875 / €2,643,969 (evening auction; lot 4; estimate: £700,000-900,000; illustrated above left).
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