David Hockney Leads Phillips London Auction with £3.3M Painting
On October 10, 2024, Phillips' Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London generated £15.1 million, boasting a sell-through rate of 77%. The auction included unsold pieces by Georg Baselitz and Sigmar Polke, with mixed reactions to works by Banksy and Lucio Fontana. David Hockney's 'Path Through Wheat Fields, July' (2005) was sold for £3,315,000, having previously been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Museum Ludwig Cologne. Yayoi Kusama's 'Pumpkin (M)' (2016) brought in £1,984,000, while Andy Warhol's 'Portrait of Princess Diana' (1982) fetched £1,258,000, and 'Portrait of Prince Charles' (1982) went unsold. Emerging talents like Joseph Yaeger, Anna Weyant, and Michaela Yearwood-Dan performed well.
Key facts
- Phillips London auction on October 10, 2024, total £15.1 million
- 77% of lots sold
- David Hockney's 'Path Through Wheat Fields, July' sold for £3,315,000
- Yayoi Kusama's 'Pumpkin (M)' sold for £1,984,000
- Andy Warhol's 'Portrait of Princess Diana' sold for £1,258,000
- Marcel Broodthaers' 'Éloge du sujet' sold for £381,000
- Andreas Gursky's 'New York, Mercantile Exchange' sold for £609,000
- Joseph Yaeger's 'Sphinx without a secret' sold for £203,200
Entities
Artists
- David Hockney
- Yayoi Kusama
- Andy Warhol
- Sigmar Polke
- Georg Baselitz
- Lucio Fontana
- Banksy
- Marcel Broodthaers
- Andreas Gursky
- Joseph Yaeger
- Anna Weyant
- Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Institutions
- Phillips
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- Museum Ludwig Cologne
- Herbig collection
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- Yorkshire
- Bilbao
- Spain
- Cologne
- Germany
- Basel
- New York
- Madrid
- Miami
- United States