16일 뉴욕 소더비에서 열린 현대미술경매에서 여성 작가들이 현저하게 부상했다. 경매 작품의 1/3이 여성작가들이었으며, 총 판매가도 45%(3천590만 달러)를 차지했다. 바바라 크루거, 베티 사르, 엘리자베스 페이턴, 캐롤 보브, 재클린 험프리의 작품은 예상가를 초월하며 경매 신기록을 세웠다. 

 

 

 

 

 

ANDY WARHOL’S MONUMENTAL WHITE DISASTER (WHITE CAR CRASH 19 TIMES) 

SELLS FOR $85.4 MILLION AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 

 

Tonight’s $315 Million Sales Brings Sotheby’s Year-To-Date Global Total for Contemporary Art to $1.8 Billion - Second Highest Ever in Company History

 

8 Artist Records Achieved

Louis Fratino | Salman Toor | Elizabeth Peyton | Jacqueline Humphries I Carol Bove | Betye Saar | Alighiero Boetti | Barbara Kruger

 

Asian Collectors Out in Force for The Now Sale

 

New York, 16 November 2022 - Andy Warhol’s altar-like White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) sold for $85.4 million tonight, driving an evening of Contemporary sales at Sotheby’s to $315 million tonight. It led an evening of sales which also saw heated competition for women artists, and strong prices for works from celebrated collections, including from the de Kooning Family Collection, The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden, The Mallin Collection, and The Collection of William S. Paley. 

 

Facts & Figures from This Evening’s Auctions:

 

This evening’s auctions together totaled $314.9 million (estimate $268.6 - 343.7m).

The Now sale totaled $45.8 million - the third consecutive white-glove sale for the series in New York (est. $29.4 - 42.2m). Almost 70% of the works sold for prices in excess of their high estimates

The Contemporary Evening Auction totaled $269.1 million - comfortably within its pre-sale estimate ($239.2-301.6m) 97% of all lots found buyers across the two sales 

With tonight’s totals, year-to-date sales for Contemporary Art hit $1.77 billion – second highest after last November 

8 new artist records:

Soaring demand for artists of the moment drove 5 new auction records in The Now: Louis Fratino , Salman Toor, Elizabeth Peyton, Jacqueline Humphries and Carol Bove

In Contemporary, additional records were set for Betye Saar, Alighiero Boetti, and Barbara Kruger

 

Asia Collectors in Hot Pursuit of The Now Sale Offerings

 

Purchases made by collectors in Asia accounted for 56% of the total value of The Now auction - acquiring works by Yoshitomo Nara, Nicholas Party, Salman Toor, Cecily Brown, Maria Berrio, Christina Quarles, Anna Weyant and Avery Singer.

More than 45% of the lots in The Now auction saw deep bidding from across Asia (Louis Fratino, Julian Nguyen)

Six Sotheby’s representatives from Asia were manning the phones tonight, fielding bids for Asian collectors across the sale

Works emerging from prominent collections command committed bidding

 

The de Kooning Family Collection: three works emerging at auction for the first time from this collection were led by Untitled circa 1979, which achieved $34.8 million - the second highest price for a work by the artist. The paintings represent the first paintings from the de Kooning family collection ever to come to auction

The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden: Six works from this collection realized $20 million, led by Roy Lichtenstein’s Modern Painting with Small Bolt, which sold for $6.9 million

The William S. Paley Collection: three works achieved a combined above-estimate of $9.6 million (est. $5.4-7.7m), bringing the overall total for works from the collection sold this week to $56.6 million. 

The Mallin Collection: four works from this remarkable collection made $11 million this evening

 

 

This week's Evening Sales garnered 7.25 million combined views – the highest ever for any sale week for Sotheby’s

Top Five Prices Across the Evening 

 

-Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times), 1963 sold for $85.4 million - among the highest prices ever achieved for a work by the artist at auction

-A trio of works by Willem de Kooning emerging from the de Kooning Family Collection was led by the artist’s Untitled (c. 1979) which achieved $34.8 million - the third highest price for the artist at auction 

-Francis Bacon’s portrait of Lucian Freud realized $30 million, selling to a UK buyer. The work is the first of only five triptychs the artist created of Freud 

-Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Saxaphone from 1986 sold for $14.2 million 

A further de Kooning from the family collection (Montauk II) sold for $12.7 million 

-Yoshitomo Nara’s Light Haze Days/Study sold to a collector in Asia for $11.9 million 

 

 

Women Artists Take Center Stage

 

Overall, women artists represented more than one-third of all lots offered tonight [25% in CTP, more than 50% in The Now]

For the second season in a row, women artists outnumbered their male counterparts in a Sotheby’s Evening Sale, making up over 50% of the works in The Now and accounting for nearly 45% of the total value 

Total of 5 new auction records for women artists: Barbara Kruger, Betye Saar, Elizabeth Peyton, Carol Bove and Jacqueline Humphries

Online participants acquired works by Avery Singer (sold for $2.1m) & Toyin Ohih Odutola (sold for $945,000)

Across both sales, women artists exceeded their combined high estimate to achieve $35.9 million