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A Historic Season for Post-War & Contemporary Art
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On 8 May 2012 the highest total for any Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction was achieved at Christie’s Evening Sale in New York totaling $388,488,000. On this historic night the Most Expensive Work by a Post-War Artist was achieved when Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow sold for a record-breaking $86,882,500. The Pincus Collection, which was offered in both the evening and day sales, set a World Record for Any Collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Auction, realizing $174,944,500.
18 May 2012More multimedia from this sale
Audio: Norman Bluhm, Winter Nights
Audio: Andy Warhol, Dolly Parton
Audio: Joan Mitchell, Allo, Amélie
Audio: Alexander Calder, Lily of Force
Audio: Alexander Calder at Christie's Spring 2012
Audio: Kelley Walker, Untitled
Audio: Cindy Sherman, Untitled (#94)
Audio: Louise Lawler, Monogram
Audio: Richard Artschwager, Dining Room
Audio: Sean Scully, Shadowing
Audio: Cecily Brown, Berserkers (2)
Burning Out From Within: An Interview with Virginia Dwan, Yves Klein's American Gallerist
Audio: Willem de Kooning, Untitled I
Audio: Romare Bearden, Strange Morning, Interior
Audio: Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild Violett (600-2)
Audio: Four Scultpures by Willem de Kooning
Audio: Four Scultpures by Willem de Kooning
Audio: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #96
Audio: Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (798-3)
Audio: Jasper Johns, Alphabets
Audio: Anselm Kiefer, Jacob's Dream
Audio: Anselm Kiefer, Elisabeth von Österreich
Audio: Three Works by Anselm Kiefer
Audio: Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986)
Audio: Alexander Calder, Le Rouge de Saché
Audio: Brice Marden, Attendant 5
Audio: Marisol Escobar, Andy
Audio: Barnett Newman, Untitled
Audio: Hans Hofmann, Kaleidos
Audio: Mark Rothko, Orange, Red, Yellow
Audio: Jackson Pollock, Number 28, 1951
Audio: Anselm Kiefer, Lilith's Töchter
Audio: Donald Judd, Untitled (76-32 Bernstein)
Audio: Cy Twombly, Untitled No. 3
Audio: Eric Fischl, Xmas Morn
Audio: Gerhard Richter, Farbschlieren
Audio: Barnett Newman, Onement V
The Noyes Calders: Property from the Estate of Mrs. Eliot Noyes
Alexander Calder, Lily of Force
Alexander Calder, Le Rouge de Saché
Property from the Estate of Mrs. Eliot Noyes: Alexander Calder, Snow Flurry
Property from the Estate of Mrs. Eliot Noyes: Alexander Calder, Untitled
Princesse Elena: Yves Klein’s Favorite Model
Gallery Talk: Highlights from the Collection of Evelyn D. Haas
The Making of an Icon: Yves Klein’s FC1 (Fire Color 1)
Gallery Talk: Property from the Pincus Collection
In The Saleroom: Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow
In The Saleroom: Yves Klein's FC1 (Fire Color 1)
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