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Art in America, August, 2001
Listed below are highlights from the spring and fall 2000 auction season, featuring works of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art at five of New York's most prominent auction houses. Each entry provides the artist's name, title of work, date, final price, the work's presale estimate and date of sale.
Final prices quoted here include commission rates, which vary. Christie's charges 17.5 percent on the first $80,000 plus 10 percent on the rest. Sotheby's takes 20 percent on the first $15,000, 15 percent on the next $85,000, and 10 percent on any amount above $100,000. The other houses charge 15 percent on the first $50,000 and 10 percent on anything above.
Sotheby's Spring: Claude Monet, The Portal (Sun), 1892-94, $24.2 million (est. $15-$20 million), May 10. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, L'Abandon ou les deux amies (1895), $9.4 million (est. $6-$8 million), May 10. Henri Matisse, The Serpentine (1909), $14 million (est. $8-$10 million), May 10. Balthus, Nude with Raised Arms (1951), $3.1 million (est. $1.8-$2.2 million), May 10. Mark Rothko, Yellow over Purple (1956), $14.3 million (est. $7-$9 million), May 17. Clyfford Still, Untitled (1947), $1.7 million (est. $500,000-$700,000), May 17. Martin Puryear, Untitled (1981-82), $489,750 (est. $300,000-$400,000), May 17. Fall: Henri Matisse, The Persian Robe (1940), $17 million (est. $9-$12 million), Nov. 9. Amedeo Modigliani, Seated Girl in a Robe (1918), $15.6 million (est. $8-$12 million), Nov. 9. Berthe Morisot, Cache-Cache (1873), $4.4 million (est. $3.25-$5 million), Nov. 9. Alexander Calder, Stegosaurus (1972-73), $4.2 million (est. $2.5-$3.5 million), Nov. 14. Brice Marden, For Pearl (1970), $1.9 million (est. $2-$3 million), Nov. 14. Frank Stella, Nunca Pasa Nada (1964), $1.4 million (est. $1-$1.5 million), Nov. 14. Christie's Spring: Gustave Caillebotte, Man on the Balcony, Boulevard Haussmann (1880), $14.3 million (est. $6-8 million), May 8. Claude Monet, Waterlilies (1906), $20.9 million (est. $20 million), May 8. Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Tulips (1932), $28.6 million (est. $25-$30 million), May 9. Sam Francis, Untitled (1959), $2.2 million (est. $1-$1.5 million), May 9. Sigmar Polke, Two Women (1968), $1.7 million, (est. $1-$1.5 million), May 16. Eric Fischl, Noonwatch (1983), $996,000 (est. $500,000-$700,000), May 16. Terry Winters, Picture Cell (1997), $154,500 (est. $60,000-$80,000), May 17. Fall: Pablo Picasso, Woman with Crossed Arms (1901-02), $55 million (est. $25 million), Nov. 8. Alberto Giacometti, Tall Standing Woman I (1962), $14.3 million (est. $10-$15 million), Nov. 8. Yves Klein, RE 1 (1958), $6.7 million (est. $4-5 million), Nov. 15. Francis Bacon, Portrait of George Dyer Talking (1966), $6.6 million (est. $3.5-$4.6 million), Nov. 15. Charles Ray, Male Mannequin (1990), $2.2 million (est. $700,000-$900,000), Nov. 16. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Blood), $1.7 million (est. $400,000-$600,000), Nov. 16. Phillips Spring: Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition (1919-20), $17 million (est. $15 million), May 11. Alfred Sisley, Garden at Louveciennes (1873), $3.5 million (est. $1-$1.5 million), May 11. Gerhard Richter, Apple Orchard (1987), $1.7 million (est. $1-$1.2 million), May 18. Agnes Martin, Drift of Summer (1965), $1.4 million (est. $800,000-$1 million), May 18. Thomas Struth, Galleria dell' Accademia (1992), $200,500 (est. $70,000-$90,000), May 18. Fall: Paul Cezanne, Hill of Galet, Pontoise (ca. 1880), $8.5 million (est. $8-$10 million), Nov. 6. Camille Pissarro, September Festival Pontoise (1872), $2.5 million (est. $1.5-$2 million), Nov. 6. Jeff Wall, The Well (1989), $277, 500 (est. $120,000-$180,000), Nov. 13. Sam Taylor-Wood, Soliloquy VI (1999), $110,300 (est. $45,000-65,000), May 13. Rineke Dijkstra, Jalta, Ukraine, July 29, 1993 (1993), $52,900 (est. $15,000-$20,000), May 13. Doyle Louis Leopold Boilly, Studies for L'Atelier de Peintre (ca. 1800), $68,500 (est. $30,000-$50,000), Jan. 26. Richard Serra, One Cut Triangle (1973), oil paintstick on paper, $79,500 (est. $15,000-$25,000), Apr. 11. Swann Elie Nadelman, Classical Head (ca. 1908-09), marble, $52,900 (est. $20,000-$30,000), Mar. 9. Arthur Dove, The Slaughter House (1937), watercolor, $25,300 (est. $10,000-$15,000), Sept. 28. Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait with Saskia (first-state etching), 1636, $48,300 (est. $25,000-$35,000), Nov. 9.
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