{"id":12672,"date":"2013-05-16T16:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=12672"},"modified":"2013-05-16T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:52:05","slug":"christies-new-york-art-auction-totals-almost-half-a-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/christies-new-york-art-auction-totals-almost-half-a-billion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Christies New York Art Auction totals almost half a billion dollars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChristiesLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12674\" alt=\"ChristiesLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChristiesLogo.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Christies<\/em><\/strong>, New York has just made auction history.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Their Post-War and Contemporary Art<\/em> <\/strong>evening sale reached the highest auction total in history.<br \/>\nThe $495 million total created 16 new auction records for artists, <em>Basquiat<\/em>, realized: $$48,843,750 <em>Lichenstein<\/em>, realized: $56,123,750, <em>Pollock<\/em>, realized: $58,363,750, and other well known artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChrBas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-406\" alt=\"ChrBas\" src=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChrBas.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 450px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Basquiat<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 330px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChrisLich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-407\" alt=\"ChrisLich\" src=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChrisLich.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 420px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em><em>Lichenstein<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 330px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChrisPoll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-408\" alt=\"ChrisPoll\" src=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChrisPoll.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 420px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pollock<\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lot with the highest sale number was the <em>Pollock<\/em> <em>Number 19, 1948<\/em>, as mentioned above, for $58,363,750. The <em>Estate of Andy William<\/em>s and the <em>Collection of Celeste and Armand Bartos<\/em> realized $46 million and $30.2 million, respectively, while 3 works sold above $40 million, 9 above $10 million, 23 above $5 million, and 59 above $1 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>One curious painting was lot #13,\u00a0 a topless painting of <em>Golden Girls<\/em> actress, <em>Bea Arthur, <\/em>by artist, <em>John Currin. <\/em>The painting sold for almost $2 million dollars, at $$1,915,750.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 360px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChristiesBea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-409\" alt=\"ChristiesBea\" src=\"http:\/\/entertainmentminute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ChristiesBea.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 450px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Currin<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Including Monday\u2019s <em>Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, The 11<sup>th<\/sup> Hour Charity Auction<\/em>, the week\u2019s evening sales at <em>Christie\u2019s<\/em> realized $528.3 million.<\/p>\n<p><small>\u00a9Christies, MoviePropCollectors, &amp; their respective rights holders.<small><\/small><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviepropcollectors.com%2Fmagazine%2Fchristies-new-york-art-auction-totals-almost-half-a-billion-dollars%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Christies, New York has just made auction history. Their Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale reached the highest auction total in history. The $495 million total created 16 new auction records for artists, Basquiat, realized: $$48,843,750 Lichenstein, realized: $56,123,750, Pollock, realized: $58,363,750, and other well known artists. Basquiat Lichenstein Pollock The lot with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-forum","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12672"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12683,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions\/12683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12672"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}