S otheby’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Contemporary Art auctions on 14 November got off to a smashing start with the 11 works from the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Collection of David Teiger being 100% sold, bringing sales of the Teiger collection to more than $100 million to date, with more auctions to come. Thrilling moments and records continued throughout the evening, with bidding battles resulting in records for many esteemed . Below, discover the auction's top ten lotsಌ and relive the night’s most memorable moments.

Watch nine bidders compete for Dana Schutz's Her Arms from the collection of David Teiger:

Totaling $48.5 million, the 11 lots comprising the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:collection of art-world luminary David Teiger resulted in a white-glove sale. Richard Diebenkorn's 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Ocean Park #39 was among the auction’s most sought-after works, and nine bidders drove Dana Schutz’s larger-than-life portrait of Sonic Youth’s front woman to $795,000, a new auction record for the artist. Last month 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Propped, a work by Jenny Saville from David Teiger's collection, established a new record for the artist, and more works from Teiger's extraordinary collection are still to come in the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Contemporary Art Day auction on 15 November.

Featuring two vibrant panels affixed to one another, Gerhard Richter’s 1987 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Abstraktes Bild is a stunning archetype of the artist’s best known series. O🌞ne of only five works by the artist, measuring over 102 by 157 inches, in private hands, this painting fetched $32 million, becoming the evening’s most valuable lot. Sotheby's now holds the top five auction prices for Richter.

Relive the nine-minute, record-setting bidding battle for Jacob Lawrence's 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Businessman:

Last spring Sotheby’s saw tremendous records set for 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Kerry James Marshall, as well as artists of African descent in our philanthropic collaboration with 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Studio Museum of Harlem. The momentum continued with several new auction records and exhilarating bidding battles. In a bidding war lasting over nine minutes between Sotheby’s Valentino Carlotti, Kayla Carlsen and Amy Cappellazzo, Carlotti secured the winning bid for Jacob Lawrence’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Businessmen, which was commissioned by Fortune magazine in 1947. At $6.2 million, Lawrence’s painting more than ܫdoubledꦅ his previous auction record.

Also setting a new artist record was Henry Taylor’s expressive canvas 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:I’ll Put a Spell on You, which sold for $975,000, and Jack Whitten’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Ancient Mentor I, a🗹 meditation on the cultural shift from the industrial age to the information age. In his first appearance in an Evening sale, Whitten achieve♒d $2.2 million.

Witness a collaborative painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol go under the hammer:

Six works by Jean-Michel Basquiat resulted in $50.2 million, with the highlight being a four-way bidding battle for the artist’s collaborative work with Andy Warhol, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Taxi, 45th/ Broadway. Formerly in the collection of Gianni Versace, the painting flew past its high estimate, selling for $9.4 million. The top Basquiat of the evening was 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Untitled (Pollo Frito). From the artist's breakthrough year of 1982,💎 the work sold for $25.7 million.

168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Judith Neisser's distingu💫ished collection is widely acclaimed for its special emphasis on Minimalist and Conceptual art. The four works sold in the Contemporary Art Evening auction – a 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Cy Twombly, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Lucio Fontana, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Robert Ryman and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Donald Judd – totaled $14.2 million. Sotheby's 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Contemporary Art Day auction features more works from Neisser's🐲 collection, including pieces by Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin,𒀰 Brice Marden and more.

Sales continue tomorrow with 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Contemporary Art Day in New York beginning at 10am.

Past Auction

The History of Now: The Collection of David Teiger | Sold to Benefit Teiger Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art

14 November 2018 | 6:30 PM EST | New York

Past Auction

Contemporary Art Evening Auction

14 November 2018 | 6:30 PM EST | New York

Impressionist & Modern Art

A New Record for Magritte in an Auction that Celebrated Artists from the World War I Era