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| Auction Results |
| London | 12 & 13 February 2014 |
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| Hidden Treasures Drive the Contemporary Art Evening Auction Total to £88 million |
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Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auctions achieved a combined total of £104.5 million.
The Evening Auction realised a total of £88 million led by Gerhard Richter's cherished work Wand (Wall), which achieved £17.4 million. A striking red and yellow canvas from Andy Warhol's iconic Mao series sold for £7.6 million. Two-thirds of the works offered had never been seen at auction including Cy Twombly's Untitled (Rome), Alberto Burri's Rosso Plastica, Lucian Freud's Head on a Green Sofa and Frank Auerbach's rediscovered masterpiece Morning - Mornington Place. |
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| Contemporary Art Evening Auction Results |
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| Contemporary Art Day Auction Results |
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| Sotheby's Evening Auction of Contemporary Art totalled £88 million, including Cy Twombly's Untitled (Rome), which achieved a new auction record for a painting by the artist, selling for £12.2 million. |
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| View the full results of the Day Auction, which brought a total of £16.5 million. The auction was led by Zao Wou-Ki's 15.11.88, which sold for £746,500. |
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