Another telephone bidder bought the painting for $ 750,000 or $ 902,500 with Phillips's fees.
Another telephone bidder bought the painting, paying $ 31.4 million.
Not exact matches
At Christie's, the market for the Nigerian - born Los Angeles artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose limited output of new works is exclusively being
bought by museums, reached a new level when her 2012 mixed - media standing figure study of a young girl, «The Beautyful Ones» was pushed by six
telephone bidders to # 2.5 million.
He sold off six pieces for $ 76.7 million combined, including a $ 26.4 million Gerhard Richter abstract from 1986, «A.B. Courbet,» that was
bought by a
telephone bidder from Mexico.
At least 10
bidders in the packed room and on
telephones tried to
buy the 2015 mixed - media and collage abstract «Smear» by Mark Bradford, who now mainly paints for museums and whose works are virtually unobtainable from galleries.
Four
bidders went for the painting, which was estimated to bring $ 6.1 million to $ 9 million and was
bought by a
telephone bidder for $ 11.3 million.
The second Bacon — «Head III» — a 1949 canvas of a man's head peering eerily out, was
bought by an unidentified
telephone bidder for $ 16.1 million, well above its $ 10.8 million high estimate.
Lucio Fontana's «Concetto Spaziale (Blu)» from 1968 was estimated at $ 300,000 to $ 400,000 but was
bought by a
telephone bidder for $ 965,000.