Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary was sold for $ 3.91 million, Malcolm Morley's SS Amsterdam in Front of Rotterdam for $ 1.57 million, Jeff Elrod's Echo Painting (B / W) was sold for $ 281,723, Brent Wadden's Alignment (13) had the biggest difference
between hammer price ($ 156,513) and high estimate (+100 percent), R. H. Quaytman's Constructivismes, Chapter 13 was sold for $ 751,262 — under high estimate, as well as the Great Deeds Against the Dead by the Chapman brothers, which was sold for $ 547,796.
Gerhard Richter's Seestück (Oliv bewölkt)-- Seascape (with Olive Clouds) had the worst result at this department, as it was sold with -35 percent difference
between hammer price and its low estimate.
We've mentioned Brent Wadden's Alignment (13) that doubled its high estimate and had the highest difference
between hammer price and high estimate of the auction.
Out of top six lots with highest difference
between hammer price and high estimate, there are two Cheyney Thompson's and two R.H. Quaytman's works, with one work by Seth Price and one by Sigmar Polke.
On the bottom side are Suling Wang's Untitled, sold with -66.7 percent difference
between hammer price and low estimate, followed by Eva Rothschild's N.G.O (with -56.7 percent) and Marius Bercea's Wild Waste (with -30 percent).
Speaking about the most successful lots, lots that have exceeded expectations, the winners are Cesar's Coeur Eclate and Lee Ufan's Carte De Voeux that were sold with +399.6 percent difference
between hammer price and high estimate.
Dernières Oeuvres De Matisse that were sold with +299.6 percent and +269.9 percent difference
between hammer price and high estimate.
On the bottom side are Ovidiu Maitec's Portes with -89.3 percent difference
between hammer price and low estimate, followed by Leonor Fini's Personnage (with -62.2 percent), Jiri Georg Dokoupil's Sans Titre (with -60 percent) and Dennis Oppenheim's Newton Discovering Gravity (with -50.2 percent).
Not exact matches
The estimated
price is
between # 185 - 200k, this Carrera RS Touring will go under the
hammer on October 20.
That her four paintings (
priced between $ 7,000 — 20,000) sold out within the first minutes of the fair speaks to the momentum Self has seen since her graduation from the Yale MFA program last spring — notably a 2015 group show at the Studio Museum in Harlem and a current show at the
Hammer Museum.
When it comes to the difference
between high estimate and
hammer price, the most successful lot — by far — was Frank Stella's Untitled, with
hammer price that was more than 8 times higher than its high estimate.
The difference
between average
hammer price and median was -71.4 percent, which means that many more lots were sold bellow this auction's average
price than above it, but those several lots that scored big, molded this final average
hammer price.
Blue chip American artist, Jasper Johns» 0 through 9 (ULAE 3) sold for $ 187,500 (
hammer price with buyer's premium) having been estimated at
between $ 70,000 — $ 100,000.
In 2016 the work was put up for auction at Sotheby's New York auction house selling for $ 68,750 (
hammer price with buyer's premium) well above its asking
price of
between $ 40,000 to $ 60,000.