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Auction highlights - 2001 In Review - results from recent art auctions - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
Art in America, August, 2002
Listed below are highlights from the spring and fall 201 auction season, featuring works of impressionist, modern and contemporary art from five of New York's most prominent auction houses. Each entry provides the artist's name, title of work, date, final price, the work's presale estimate and the date of sale.
Final prices quoted here include commission rates, which vary. Christie's charged 17.5 percent of the first $80,000 plus 10 percent of the rest. Sotheby's took 20 percent of the first $15,000, 15 percent of the next $85,000 and 10 percent of the rest. The other houses charged 15 percent of the first $50,000 and 10 percent of anything above. Estimates do not reflect commissions.
Sotheby's Spring: Joan Miro, Nocturne (1940), $5.6 million (est. $2.5-$3.5 million), May 8. Pablo Picasso, Young Man and Horse (1906), $1.7 million (est. $800,000-$1.2 million), May 8. Malcolm Morley, Christmas Tree (The Lone Ranger Lost in the Jungle of Desires), 1979, $511,750 (est. $350,000-$450,000), May 8. Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait with Horn (1938), $22.6 million (est. $8-$10 million), May 10. Jackson Pollock, Black and White #6 (1951), $8 million (est. $6-$8 million), May 17. Martin Puryear, Bower (1980), $764,750 (est. $500,000-$600,000), May 17. Ellen Gallagher, Soma (1998), $115,750 (est. $70,000-$90,000), May 17. Fall: Camille Pissarro, Rue Saint-Lazare (1893), $6.6 million (est. $4-$6 million), Nov. 7. Henri Matisse, Anemones in Front of a Black Mirror (1918-19), $4.2 million (est. $3.8-$4.5 million), Nov. 7. Anselm Kiefer, Anathanor (1991), $1.2 million (est. $800,000-$1.2 million), Nov. 14. Jasper Johns, Montez Singing (1989), $3.7 million (est. $3.5-$4.5 million), Nov. 14. Ellsworth Kelly, Red White Blue (1968), $1.4 million (est. $900,000-$1.2 million), Nov. 14. Richard Serra, Untitled (1984), $1.2 million (est. $500,000-$700,000), Nov. 14. Christie's Spring: Andy Warhol, Flowers (1964), $8.5 million (est. $3-$4 million), May 16. Lucio Fontana, Coupure (1961), $996,000 (est. $500,000-$700,000), May 16. Bruce Nauman, Henry Moore Bound to Fail (Back View), 1967, $9.9 million (est. $2-$3 million), May 17. Maurizio Cattelan, The Ninth Hour (1999), $886,000 (est. $500,000-$600,000), May 17. Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #48 (1979), $336,000 (est. $150,000-$200,000), May 17. Gilbert & George, Smash the Reds (1977), $314,000 (est. $150,000-$250,000), May 17. Georgia O'Keeffe, Calla Lilies with Red Anemone (1928), $6.2 million (est. $2.5-$3.5 million), May 23. Maurice Prendergast, The Stony Beach (ca. 1897), $3.5 million (est. $2-$3 million), May 23. Fall: Fernand Leger, The Motor (1918), $16.7 million (est. $4-$6 million), Nov. 6. Joan Miro, Portrait of Madame K (1924), $12.6 million (est. $4-$6 million), Nov. 6. Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman (1909), $5 million (est. $2.5-$3.5 million), Nov. 6. Georg Baselitz, The Shepherd (1966), $1.1 million (est. $1-$1.5 million), Nov. 13. Tom Wesselman, Still Life #28 (1963), $798,000 (est. $600,000-$800,000), Nov. 13. Alex Katz, Blue Umbrella #2 (1972), $666,000 (est. $500,000-$700,000), Nov. 15. Duane Hanson, Security Guard (1990), $314,000 (est. $150,000-$200,000), Nov. 15. Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg Spring: Paul Cezanne, Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1888-90), $38.5 million (est. $35-$40 million), May 7. Vincent van Gogh, Arles, View from the Wheat Fields (1888), $4.4 million (est. $4-$6 million), May 7. Jean Dubuffet, Automobile, Flower of Industry (1961), $3 million (est. $2.5-$3.5 million), May 14. David Hammonds, Untitled (2000), $409,500 (est. $250,000-$350,000), May 14. Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Convex), 1993, $365,000 (est. $250,000-$350,000), May 14. Chris Ofili, Foxy Roxy (1997), $211,500 (est. $150,000-$200,000), May 14. Fall: Egon Schiele, Suburban House with Washing (1917), $9.9 million (est. $8-$12 million), Nov. 5. Amedeo Modigliani, Head of a Woman (1911-12), $7.2 million ($6-$8 million), Nov. 5. Lyonel Feininger, Swinemund City Hall (1912), $3.3 million (est. $2-$2.5 million), Nov. 5. Piero Manzoni, Achrome (1957), $750,500 (est. $700,000-$900,000), Nov. 12. Doyle Elaine de Kooning, Portrait of Willem de Kooning (ca. 1952), $41,125 (est. $6,000-$8,000), Nov. 13. Raoul Dufy, The Cafe Terrace (ca. 1907), $368,625 (est. $250,000-$300,000), Nov. 13. John Sloan, Dolly in White, Rocks and Sea (ca. 1920), $181,625 (est. $100,000-$150,000), Dec. 5. Swann Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Tree Study (ca. 1780), $36,800 (est. $5,000-$7,500), Jan. 25. Herbert Bayer, View from the Pont Transbordeur, Marseilles (1928), $68,500 (est. $30,000-$50,000), Oct. 2. George Bellows, Counted Out (Second Stone), 1921, $17,250 (est. $12,000-$16,000), May 1.
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