But the night's big draw was the chance to buy the copyrights to the entire Jimi Hendrix music catalog — they went to an anonymous
phone bidder for $ 15 million.
The painting attracted numerous bidders including New York dealer William Acquavella before selling to an anonymous
phone bidder for a record # 16.8 million ($ 26.6 million).
Solow was also selling Moore's monumental abstract Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae, 1968, which sold to a U.S.
phone bidder for # 5.1 million ($ 8 million) on a # 2 million / 3 million estimate.
An untitled inkjet painting by Wade Guyton from 2006 sold to a lone
phone bidder for $ 4.6 million, above a low estimate of $ 4 million.
A monumental untitled diptych of two hexagonal canvases broke the artist's previous auction record, selling to
a phone bidder for $ 161,000.
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Jack Whitten's Ghost of Joseph Beuys (1986) sold to a
bidder on the
phone with Sotheby's Europe chairman Helena Newman
for a $ 700,000 hammer, or $ 855,000 with fees, beating out the record set at the Sotheby's day sales last May, when Epsilon Group, III (1976) sold
for $ 672,500.
When one
phone bidder asked
for a $ 13,000 bid, Palmieri said, «So much
for increments ladies and gentlemen.
Minor squabbles punctuated the final hour of the sale — a George Condo went back up
for an auction after a faulty
phone connection, while a Christian Boltanski photo - sculpture would have sold
for more if the
bidder spoke a millisecond earlier, just before the hammer went down.
The best lesson in really using and trusting your eye came when the tremendous show of Michelangelo drawings opened at the Met just days before Christie's auctioned off «a brand - new» Leonardo da Vinci
for more than $ 450 million to an anonymous
phone bidder.
Dueling
phone bidders waged a fast and fierce battle
for the luminous canvas with stacked red and blue color blocks, the winner ultimately paying $ 75.1 million (including buyer's premium).
Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline: Big Family, No. 2, was the session's most expensive lot; the 1995 oil on canvas went
for HK$ 26,420,000 to an anonymous
phone bidder.
There was active bidding both in the room and on the
phone and Mr. Burge noted that while Americans accounted
for 60 percent of the successful
bidders and Europeans 30 percent, the bidding was so close that «it could have gone the other way.»
Leading the somewhat sleepy sale was an untitled Cy Twombly from 1962 that went
for # 6.4 million ($ 8.40 million) after just a single
bidder on the
phones and a lark of a bid from members of the Nahmad family came in to save it from flopping.
David Zwirner, sitting near the back of the packed crowd fended off a handful of
bidders on the
phones and in the room to pick up the Hammons, a combination basketball backboard and chandelier from 2000 (one of three unique editions),
for its high estimate, $ 7 million hammer ($ 8.01 million with premium), trouncing the artist's previous record of $ 2.27 million, which was set at Sotheby's New York
for an assemblage two years back.
In esthetic contrast, the somber and austere Untitled (Black and Gray)(1969), done in acrylic, sold
for $ 10,681,000, also to a
phone bidder.
The work, 1949 - A - No. 1 (1949), eventually went to Ms. Dennison's
phone bidder, and set a new record
for the artist at $ 61.7 million.
David Zwirner, who has been doing more and more business with Mr. Koons — he staged a Koons show at his gallery this past spring and bought a lower - end Koons at last night's Phillips sale — jumped in at $ 39 million, speaking
for a client on his cellphone and going slowly back and forth with a
phone bidder up to its final price.
The painting would go on to sell
for $ 69.6 million to an anonymous
phone bidder, setting an auction record
for the artist after a five - and - a-half-minute contest.
On loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
for almost 30 years, it was bought by an anonymous
phone bidder after a five - minute bidding contest.
The painting, which was voted by Post readers as their favorite cover, was sought after by two
phone bidders who competed
for more than 9 minutes.
After a grueling battle with
phone bidders, a gentleman in the room won it
for a $ 3 million hammer price, $ 3.61 million with fees.
There was just one guaranteed work in the sale, René Magritte's Le Message a la terre (1926), and when it came up auctioneer Oliver Barker sold it quickly to a
bidder on the
phone with specialist Clarissa Post
for just over the low estimate at $ 2.3 million.
Three works from the collection of Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor doubled the low estimate to bring # 13.8 million ($ 21.8 million) and were led by Vincent van Gogh's Vue de l'aisle de la Chapelle de Saint - Remy, 1889, which sold
for # 10 million ($ 16 million), against a # 5 million / 7 million estimate, to a Russian - speaking
phone bidder against Christie's chairman of Asia, Ken Yeh, on another telephone.