New York, 13 novembre 2007
La Evening Sale di Arte Contemporanea di Christie’s ha totalizzato 325,006,000$ con 5 lotti invenduti su 67 offerti. Sedici i nuovi world auction records raggiunti, tra i quali artisti come Jeff Koons, Lucian Freud, Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince e Gerhard Richter.
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16 record stabiliti:
Lot 1
Thomas Struth, Pantheon, Rome, 1990
Sold for $1,409,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $ 902,766, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1999-, Sotheby’s London: Thursday, June 21, 2007 [Lot 34]Cibachrome print)
Lot 2
Yoshitomo Nara, Princess of Snooze, 2001
Sold for $1,497,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $1,160,000, Night walker, 2001, Sotheby’s New York: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 [Lot 493] Acrylic on canvas)
Lot 4
Rudolph Stingel, Untitled, 1989
Sold for $1,217,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $725,198, Untitled, 1990, Phillips de Pury & Company London: Saturday, October 13, 2007 [Lot 303] Acrylic and enamel on canvas)
Lot 5
Fred Tomaselli, Gravity in Four Directions, 2001
Sold for $937,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $336,000, Butterfly effect, 1999, Phillips, de Pury & Company New York: Thursday, May 17, 2007 [Lot 21] Acrylic, aspirin tablets, paper collage, and resin on woodpanel)
Lot 6
Richard Prince, Piney Woods Nurse, 2002
Sold for $6,089,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $ 2,840,000, Cowboy, 2001- , Christie’s New York: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 [Lot 71] Ektachrome print)
Lot 8
Zhang Xiaogang, Bloodline Series: Mother with three sons (The Family Portrait), 1993
Sold for $3,961,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $3,065,000, Chapter of a new century – Birth of the People’s Republic of China, 1992, Sotheby’s New York: Thursday, September 20, 2007 [Lot 11] Photo copies, cotton tape, and oil on canvas)
Lot 9
Lucian Freud, Ib and her husband, 1992
Sold for $19,361,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $15,533,596, Bruce Bernard, 1992, Christie’s London: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 [Lot 35] Oil on canvas)
Lot 11
Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1984
Sold for $3,849,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A WORK ON PAPER FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $ 889,600, Untitled (Ocean park), 1978, Sotheby’s New York: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 [Lot 28] Oil, acrylic, ink, watercolor, gouache and charcoal on paper)
Lot 16
Gerard Richter, Düsenjäger, 1963
Sold for $11,241,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $6,200,000, Abstraktes Bild, 1992, Christie’s New York: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 [Lot 60] Oil on canvas)
Lot 18
Mark Rothko, Green, Blue, Green on Blue, 1968
Sold for $6,089,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A WORK ON PAPER FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record 408,000 US$, Untitled, 1944 – 1945, Sotheby’s New York: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 [Lot 31] Watercolor on cardboard)
Lot 24
Jeff Koons, Diamond (Blue)
Sold for $11,801,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record 5,615,750 US$, Michael Jackson and “Bubbles” 1988, Sotheby’s New York: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 [Lot 15] Contemporary Art Part I)
Lot 28
Ed Ruscha, Burning Gas Station, 1965-1966
Sold for $6,985,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $3,591,500, Damage, 1964, Christie’s New York: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 [Lot 48] Oil on Canvas)
Lot 55
On Kawara, Dec 1. 1974 (Today Series # 54) Dec 2. 1974 (Today Series # 55) Dec 3. 1974 (Today Series # 56) Dec 4. 1974 (Today Series # 57) Dec 5. 1974 (Today Series # 58) Dec 6. 1974 (Today Series # 59) Dec 7. 1974 (Today Series # 60), 1974
Sold for $2,393,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $1,944,000, Apr. 3, 1990 (+ 9 others; 10 works from Today Series), Christie’s New York: Monday, February 26, 2007 [Lot 15] Liquitex on canvas w/newspaper clipping)
Lot 56
Eva Hesse, Untitled, 1967
Sold for $1,833,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A WORK ON PAPER FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $ 307,200, Untitled, 1963-, Sotheby’s New York: Thursday, May 11, 2006 [Lot 114] Acrylic, gouache, ink, crayon, colored marker and pencil on paper collage)
Lot 59
Roy Lichtenstein, Study for Crying Girl, 1964
Sold for $1,721,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A WORK ON PAPER FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $ 1,248,000, Reflections on crash, 1989 -, Phillips, de Pury & Company New York: Thursday, November 10, 2005 [Lot 47] Graphite, acrylic, painted and printed paper on board)
Lot 62
Liza Lou, Self-Portrait, 2000
Sold for $337,000
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
(Previous Record $57,600, Budweiser, 1995-, Christie’s New York: Wednesday, November 9, 2005 [Lot 412] Colored beads on plaster)
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