This de Kooning, which sold for $ 772,500, bears a strong painterly kinship with Richter's
Lot 25 and to a lesser extent with the untitled painting by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988),
Lot 24, a 1982 work
of acrylic, spraypaint and oil - sticks on canvas that is 72 by 48 inches and is highlighted by a horned skull with
floating arrows above an undefined surge
of black and
pink.