Phillips de Pury in London completed the successful week of contemporary evening sales in their New York style Howick Place premises in Victoria with 29 selective lots achieving £5,409,200 ($8,725,040). 24 of the lots found buyers the highpoint being Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Overrun” (1985) which sold for for £1,127,650 ($1,815,517) Robert Rauschenberg’s multi-layered “Address Unknown” (1998) estimated at £250-350,000 failed to sell.
Phillips de Pury London Contemporary Art Evening Sale Highlights
Jean-Michel Basquiat Overrun, £1,127,650 /$1,818,899
Raqib Shaw, Absence of God III… And His Tears of Blood Will Drown the Cities of Men II £553,250/$892,392
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, The Painting on an Easel, £361,250/$582,696
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, £361,250/$582,696
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, 4 Hostessen (4 Stewardesses), £277,250/$447,204
Gunther Uecker, Mutation, £223,250/$360,102
Wade Guyton, Untitled, £213,650/$344,617
Karel Appel, Birds Over the Red Sea, £205,250/$331,068
Albert Oehlen, Untitled, £193,250/$311,712
World Records Achieved
Wade Guyton, Untitled, £223,250/$360,102
Jim Lambie, Night Divides the Day, £91,250/ $147,186
Georg Herold, Untitled, 121,250/$195,576