ANDY WARHOL’S MONUMENTAL
WHITE DISASTER (WHITE CAR CRASH 19 TIMES)
SELLS FOR $85.4 MILLION AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK
Tonight’s $315 Million Sales Brings Sotheby’s Year-To-Date Global Total for
Contemporary Art to $1.8 Billion – Second Highest Ever in Company History
8 Artist Records Achieved
Louis Fratino | Salman Toor | Elizabeth Peyton | Jacqueline Humphries
- Overall, women artists represented more than one-third of all lots offered tonight [25% in CTP, more than 50% in The Now]
- For the second season in a row, women artists outnumbered their male counterparts in a Sotheby’s Evening Sale, making up over 50% of the works in The Now and accounting for nearly 45% of the total value
- Total of 5 new auction records for women artists: Barbara Kruger, Betye Saar, Elizabeth Peyton, Carol Bove and Jacqueline Humphries
- Online participants acquired works by Avery Singer (sold for $2.1m) & Toyin Ohih Odutola (sold for $945,000)
- Across both sales, women artists exceeded their combined high estimate to achieve $35.9 million
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