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Live Auction20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening SaleNew York
ConcludedMay 17 2018
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    • 35 Lots

    1
    Jenny Holzer
    Truisms: UNEX sign
    Estimate
    $150,000 - $200,000
    Sold For
    $471,000
    2
    Cory Arcangel
    Photoshop CS: 84 by 66 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient, "Blue, Red, Yellow" (turn reverse off), mousedown x=4000 y=5350, mouse up x=20000 y=1200
    Estimate
    $150,000 - $200,000
    Sold For
    $399,000
    3
    Pat Steir
    Elective Affinity Waterfall
    Estimate
    $600,000 - $800,000
    Sold For
    $2,295,000
    4
    George Condo
    Red Head
    Estimate
    $900,000 - $1,200,000
    Sold For
    $1,815,000
    5
    Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Flexible
    Estimate
    Estimate on Request
    Sold For
    $45,315,000
    6
    Willem de Kooning
    Untitled 13
    Estimate
    $1,500,000 - $2,000,000
    Sold For
    $4,155,000
    7
    Joan Mitchell
    Hours
    Estimate
    $1,500,000 - $2,000,000
    Sold For
    $2,775,000
    8
    Robert Motherwell
    At Five in the Afternoon
    Estimate
    $12,000,000 - $18,000,000
    Sold For
    $12,690,000
    9
    Lucio Fontana
    Concetto spaziale, Attese
    Estimate
    $2,500,000 - $3,500,000
    Sold For
    $3,015,000
    No Reserve
    10
    Anselm Kiefer
    Laßt 1000 Blumen blühen (Let 1000 Flowers bloom)
    Estimate
    $1,200,000 - $1,800,000
    Sold For
    $1,215,000
    11
    Mark Bradford
    Black Venus
    Estimate
    $5,000,000 - $7,000,000
    Sold For
    $6,052,500
    12
    Gerhard Richter
    Italienische Landschaft (Italian Landscape)
    Estimate
    $1,500,000 - $2,000,000
    Sold For
    $4,095,000

    Robert Motherwell: A Field of Inexhaustible Meaning

    Carter Ratcliff recounts the artist's personal and creative journey to the completion of 'At Five in the Afternoon', 1971, a monumental canvas from his famed 'Elegies' series.

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    13
    Gerhard Richter
    Abstraktes Bild (811-2)
    Estimate
    $12,000,000 - $18,000,000
    14
    Andy Warhol
    Last Supper
    Estimate
    $8,000,000 - $12,000,000
    Sold For
    $8,232,500
    15
    Ron Mueck
    Man in Blankets
    Estimate
    $500,000 - $700,000
    Sold For
    $447,000
    16
    Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Untitled (Magic Worms)
    Estimate
    $1,000,000 - $1,500,000
    Sold For
    $1,139,750
    17
    Cy Twombly
    Untitled (Ramifications)
    Estimate
    $800,000 - $1,200,000
    Sold For
    $1,455,000
    18
    Sigmar Polke
    Stadtbild II (City Painting II)
    Estimate
    $12,000,000 - $18,000,000
    19
    Arshile Gorky
    Untitled (Study for Mural)
    Estimate
    $300,000 - $400,000
    Sold For
    $275,000
    20
    René Magritte
    La grande table
    Estimate
    $2,000,000 - $3,000,000
    Sold For
    $2,295,000
    21
    Henry Moore
    Working Model for Draped Reclining Mother and Baby
    Estimate
    $3,500,000 - $4,500,000
    Sold For
    $4,215,000
    23
    Rudolf Stingel
    Untitled
    Estimate
    $5,000,000 - $7,000,000
    Sold For
    $5,940,000
    24
    Georg Baselitz
    Schwarze Säule (Black Column)
    Estimate
    $1,200,000 - $1,800,000
    Sold For
    $1,327,500
    No Reserve
    26
    Mark Grotjahn
    Untitled (Free Standing Large Garden Sculpture Mask M24.g)
    Estimate
    $500,000 - $800,000
    Sold For
    $519,000

    Creating Moments like Matisse: Joan Mitchell's Late Oeuvre

    From the artist's sweeping, exuberant paintings of the 1980s, 'Hours' bridges Abstract Expressionism and Post-Impressionism.

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    27
    Wayne Thiebaud
    Valley Ranch
    Estimate
    $800,000 - $1,200,000
    Sold For
    $1,815,000
    28
    Kerry James Marshall
    Untitled (Blanket Couple)
    Estimate
    $3,500,000 - $5,500,000
    Sold For
    $4,335,000
    30
    Andy Warhol
    16 Flowers
    Estimate
    $5,000,000 - $7,000,000
    Sold For
    $5,377,500
    31
    Adrian Ghenie
    Elvis
    Estimate
    $250,000 - $350,000
    Sold For
    $519,000
    32
    Andy Warhol
    Two Marilyns
    Estimate
    $3,000,000 - $4,000,000
    Sold For
    $3,200,000
    33
    Donald Judd
    Untitled
    Estimate
    $1,200,000 - $1,800,000
    Sold For
    $2,655,000
    34
    Cady Noland
    Tower of Terror
    Estimate
    $2,000,000 - $3,000,000
    Sold For
    $2,207,501
    35
    Luc Tuymans
    Model
    Estimate
    $400,000 - $600,000
    36
    Fernando Botero
    Yellow Niña
    Estimate
    $400,000 - $600,000
    Sold For
    $555,000
    37
    Anish Kapoor
    Untitled
    Estimate
    $550,000 - $750,000
    Sold For
    $735,000
    38
    Maurizio Cattelan
    Museums League
    Estimate
    $20,000 - $30,000
    Sold For
    $27,500

    Artists in Dialogue: Kerry James Marshall and Luc Tuymans

    On the occasion of the sale of Kerry James Marshall's 'Untitled (Blanket Couple)', 2014, and Luc Tuymans' 'Model', 2012, we explore the fruitful dialogue between two of the most important painters of their generation.

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    'Black Venus': The Turning Point in Mark Bradford's Career

    Our editors examine 'Black Venus', the catalyst that led Mark Bradford to become the most expensive living black artist and one of the most important abstract painters of our time.

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    Pat Steir: In Conversation

    In advance of our New York Evening Sale, we talk to Pat Steir about her waterfall paintings, meditations on nature and influences ranging from John Cage to Chinese landscape painting.

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    Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Flexible': Behind the Lens with Lizzie Himmel

    Lizzie Himmel is a New York-based photographer who shot the iconic picture of Jean-Michel Basquiat and 'Flexible', 1984. Phillips' Roselyn Mathews caught up with Himmel about her experiences in and around the artist's New York studio.

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    In Violence We Trust: Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer and Mark Bradford

    From curator and scholar Francesco Bonami: Violence weaves a thread through three provocative works by American artists.

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    Color as Material: Rudi Fuchs on Donald Judd's Multicolored Works

    In conversation with Phillips' Patrizia Koenig, renowned curator and former President of the Chinati Foundation Rudi Fuchs speaks about the artist's unique approach to color.

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