Sotheby's and Christie's London Evening Sales Total £246.5 Million
On March 6 and 7, 2018, Christie's and Sotheby's conducted evening auctions for Post-War and Contemporary Art in London, collectively achieving £246.5 million. Christie's auction on March 6 garnered £137.5 million, marking the highest total for a European auction, with a sell-through rate of 92% by lot. Highlights included Andy Warhol's self-portraits, which sold for £19.9 million, and Basquiat's Multiflavors at £10.5 million. New records were established for Mark Bradford, Kelley Walker, and Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva. Sotheby's auction on March 7 brought in £109 million, with Peter Doig's The Architect's Hoe leading at £13.2 million. Additionally, Lucio Fontana's Concetto Spaziale sold for £4.3 million, while three lots were withdrawn at the last moment.
Key facts
- Christie's London evening sale on March 6, 2018, totaled £137.5 million, a European record for the sector.
- Sotheby's London evening sale on March 7, 2018, totaled £109 million.
- Andy Warhol's six self-portraits sold for £19.9 million at Christie's.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat's Multiflavors sold for £10.5 million at Christie's.
- Peter Doig's Charley's Space sold for £9.5 million at Christie's.
- Peter Doig's The Architect's Hoe in Ravine sold for £13.2 million at Sotheby's.
- Gerhard Richter's Gelbgrun sold for £9.5 million at Sotheby's.
- Christopher Wool's Untitled (2007) sold for £9.1 million at Sotheby's.
- Mark Bradford set a record with Bear Running from the Shotgun at £3.8 million.
- Kelley Walker set a record with Black Star Press at £573,000.
- Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva set a record with L'Incendie I at £2 million.
- Lucio Fontana's Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1963) sold for £4.3 million at Sotheby's.
- Michelangelo Pistoletto's Amanti sold for £2.2 million at Sotheby's.
- Alberto Burri's Ferro T sold for £5 million at Christie's.
- Peter Halley set a record with Yellow Cell with Triple Conduit at £513,000.
- Jason Rhoades set a record with Down Under at £345,000.
- A series of ten Warhol Marilyn Monroe prints sold for £2.3 million at Sotheby's.
- Banksy's Bacchus at the seaside sold online for £550,000.
- Warhol's Birth of Venus was unsold at £3.6 million at Christie's.
- David Hockney's work was unsold at £4.5 million at Christie's.
- Three lots were withdrawn: Danh Vo's Alphabet, Ed Ruscha's Mount Something, and Calder's Three White Dots on Orange Stack.
Entities
Artists
- Andy Warhol
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Peter Doig
- Francis Bacon
- Mark Bradford
- Kelley Walker
- Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
- George Condo
- Jackson Pollock
- Lucio Fontana
- François-Xavier Lalanne
- Cy Twombly
- Louise Bourgeois
- Donald Judd
- Alberto Burri
- Rudolf Stingel
- Adrian Ghenie
- Josef Albers
- Gerhard Richter
- Christopher Wool
- Yayoi Kusama
- Albert Oehlen
- Hurvin Anderson
- Cecily Brown
- Laura Owens
- Michelangelo Pistoletto
- Luciano Fabro
- Francesco Lo Savio
- Alighiero Boetti
- Peter Halley
- Jason Rhoades
- Richard Prince
- Damien Hirst
- Antony Gormley
- Banksy
- David Hockney
- Howard Hodgkin
- Sergio Camargo
- Danh Vo
- Ed Ruscha
- Alexander Calder
- Lucian Freud
- Sam Gilliam
- Henry Taylor
- Jennifer Guidi
- Beatriz Milhazes
- Martin Kippenberger
- Joan Mitchell
- Jonas Wood
- Sean Scully
Institutions
- Christie's
- Sotheby's
- Fondazione Donald R. Sobey
- Phillips
- Kunstmuseum Basel
- Art Basel
- Art Basel Unlimited
- MUDEC
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Guggenheim Museum New York
- Hauser & Wirth
- Lévy Gorvy
- David Zwirner
- Emilio Mazzoli
- NABA
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- Basel
- Switzerland
- New York
- United States
- Milan
- Italy
- Hong Kong
- China
- Asia