CHRISTIE’S POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART DAY AUCTION
ACHIEVES A TOTAL OF £23,548,250 / $30,777,564 / €26,279,848
TOP LOT IN THE AUCTION
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Abstraktes Bild
signed, numbered and dated ‘591-2 Richter 1986’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
38 x 36 ¼in. (96.5 x 92cm.)
Painted in 1986
Price realised: £2,648,750 / $3,461,916 / €2,956,005
ARTIST AUCTION RECORD
Grayson Perry (B. 1960)
I Want To Be An Artist
glazed earthenware
22 7/8 x 18 7/8 x 18 7/8in. (58 x 48 x 48cm.)
Executed in 1996
Price realised: £632,750 / $827,004 / €706,149
ARTIST COLLABORATION AUCTION RECORD
Yoshitomo Nara (B. 1959) & Hiroshi Sugito (B. 1970)
Deeper than a puddle
signed and dated ‘Nara 2004 Sugito’ (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
102 3/8 x 110 ¼ in. (260 x 280cm.)
Painted in 2004
Price reaslied: £656,750 / $858,372 / €732,933
Shusaku Arakawa (1936-2010)
Vertical Thought
oil, mirror, latex, graphite, string, plastic and pacifier on canvas
76 ¾ x 107 1/8in. (195 x 272cm.)
Executed in 1973
Price realised: £137,500 / $179,713 / €153,450
Katharina Grosse (B. 1961)
Untitled
signed and dated ‘Katharina 2000’ (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
85 ¼ x 123 5/8in. (216 x 314cm.)
Painted in 2000
Price realised: £308,750 / $403,536 / €344,565
Ibrahim Mahama (B. 1987)
Untitled
ink, found fabric collage, thread and banana tree leaf on six joined coal sacks
79 7/8 x 85in. (203 x 216cm.)
Executed in 2014
Price realised: £40,000 / $52,280 / €44,640
Henry Taylor (B. 1958)
Untitled (Symbol)
oil on canvas
95 1/8 x 76 1/8in. (241.6 x 193.2cm.)
Painted in 2007
Price realised: £230,750 / $301,590 / €257,517
Zoë Klemme and Alexandra Werner, Co-Heads of Day Auction, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s: “In our first season as co-heads of the Day Auction at Christie’s to see results sold 83% by lot and 95% by value is hugely rewarding. Today we saw strong above-estimate results of £23,548,250 / $30,777,564 / €26,279,848, which more than doubled last year’s figures and rounded off our busiest ever Frieze Week at Christie’s. It was particularly gratifying to see eight auction records achieved by works of quality and currency – artists including Grayson Perry, more than doubling the record figure made in the evening auction last night and Katharina Grosse, currently having a much-celebrated show at the South London Gallery, were amongst those. Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild led the sale and it is gratifying to see how a work of such high quality found a robust reception in the Day Auction.”
