Carte Blanche Results!

Cindy Sherman

Untitled #153 Executed in 1985

Edition of 6

Est.: $2,000,000-3,000,000

Sold at: $2,770,500

Phillips de Pury 

Carte Blanche 2010

Yesterday, I wrote about the preview of the Carte Blanche Auction show. I want to clarify that I was not at the evening auction. but that I went on Saturday when everybody was invited to come and view. I am far from having a $1M clearance:). One day I would love to bid, but most likely as a dealer than a buyer, but who knows where life will bring me?

Andy Warhol

Man in her life, executed in October-November 1962

Est: $40,000,000-50,000,000

Sold at: $63,362,500

It was quite exciting to view the Auction on line as well. I felt like I was holding my breath quite a few times. Andy Warhol was again the big winner, but that does not come as a surprise. An artist that really did surprise was Thomas Schutte, a German Contemporary Artist that I am not so familiar with. But look at the sold price and compare it to the Estimates. 

Thomas Schutte

Grosse Geist No. 16

Executed in 2000

One of three casts 

(one in aluminum, one in steel and one in polished bronze)

Est: $1,000,000-1,500,000

Sold at: 4,114,500

Thomas Schutte

Old Friends

,concieved in 1992, printed in 1993

edition of 3

Est: $350,000-450,000

Sold at: $962,500

Another of the many great successes last night was the Rudolf Stingel. An Italian living and working in New York but being shown at the Neue National Gallery in Berlin this year.

Rudolf Stingel

Untitled, Painted in 1990

Est: $600,000-800,000

Sold: $2,658,500

The greatest looser of the evening was Jeff Koons, his piece "Prison" at the Carte Blanche Auction and the later Contemporary Auction piece "Caterpillar" passed. I am speculating on that the rather bad reviews regarding his latest show "Made in Heaven" a collection of more pornographic paintings which the Times critic Michael Kimmelman has called:

 “cheap” and Koons “an opportunistic publicity monger whose conflation of himself and his work precipitated the self-destruction that already seems [his] fate.”

Jeff Koons

Prison (Venus) painted in 2001

Est: 2,500,000-3,500,000

Passed

Jeff Koons

Caterpillar Ladder, 2003

Est: $5,500,000-$7,500,000

Passed

Watching the Phillips day sale right now, I am surprised to see that about 3 Andy Warhol pieces, just passed. I guess that is what is so exciting about an Auction, anything can happen!

I will write in the sold pieces for the pictures on yesterdays post now.

Have a fabulous day!

With Love

Kristin