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Post-war And Contemporary Art Day Sale
GBP 15,428,595
Close rate: 83.21% (109/131)
40.5%
Above Est.
34.4%
Within Est.
8.4%
Below Est.
16.7%
Unsold
Auction introduction: This March, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Day Sale presents an exciting selection of works by leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, offered as part of our 20th/21st Century Art auction series. Leading the sale are Cecily Brown’s Mean Eyed Cat (2012), ahead of the artist’s highly anticipated exhibition Cecily Brown: Picture Making at the Serpentine Gallery in London; Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (Spoon) (1988), coinciding with the opening of Basquiat – Headstrong at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; and Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild (1992), following the artist’s acclaimed retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton earlier this year. The sale additionally features remarkable works by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Christopher Wool, Georg Baselitz and Günther Förg, alongside a significant conceptual contribution by On Kawara.