TOP 10 LOTS at the CHRISTIES POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE which realized the highest total for any auction $744,944,000: (1) BARNETT NEWMAN (1905-1970), Black Fire 1, oil on canvas, painted in 1961; price realized: $84,165,000 **WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST (2) FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992), Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards, oil on canvas, in three parts, painted in 1984; price realized: $80,805,000 (3) MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970), Untitled, oil on canvas, painted in 1952; price realized: $66,245,000 (4) ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987), Race Riot, acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, in four parts, painted in 1964; price realized: $62,885,000 (5) ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987), White Marilyn, acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, painted in 1962; price realized: $41,045,000 (6) JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988), Untitled, acrylic, oilstick and metallic spray enamel on canvas, painted in 1981; price realized: $34,885,000 (7) JEFF KOONS (b. 1955), Jim Beam-J.B. Turner Train, stainless steel and bourbon, executed in 1986. This work is the artists proof from an edition of three plus one artists proof; price realized: $33,765,000 (8) GERHARD RICHTER (b. 1932), Abstraktes Bild (712), oil on canvas, painted in 1990; price realized: $29,285,000 (9) ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976), Flying Fish, hanging mobile-painted sheet metal, rod and wire, executed in 1957; price realized: $25,925,000 **WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST (10) CHRISTOPHER WOOL (b. 1955), If You, enamel on aluminum, painted in 1992; price realized: $23,685,000
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 03:28:54 +0000
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