{"id":53992,"date":"2024-05-14T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=53992"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:46:21","slug":"sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/05\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby&#8217;s New York Contemporary Evening Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53993\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53993\" class=\"wp-image-53993\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM-228x300.png\" alt=\"An abstract painting of a nude man crouching down on a board.\" width=\"187\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM-778x1024.png 778w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM-768x1011.png 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM.png 966w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Portrait of George Dyer Crouching<\/em> by Francis Bacon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This month\u2019s sales at New York\u2019s auction houses had a decent start last night at Sotheby\u2019s with back-to-back contemporary sales. Things started at 6:30 pm with a short sale called The Now, featuring established giants and the best new artists today, or what Sotheby\u2019s called \u201cthe masters of today and tomorrow.\u201d It was a rather successful prelude to the larger Contemporary Evening sale, mostly featuring works by the greats of twentieth-century art like Warhol, Basquiat, and Thiebaud. The expected star of the evening was Francis Bacon\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Portrait of George Dyer Crouching<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Last November,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/11\/christies-ny-20th-century-evening-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Christie\u2019s hosted a 20th Century sale<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0that featured another Bacon titled\u00a0<\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FRANCIS-BACON-Figure-in-Movement-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Figure in Movement<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. It\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">is meant<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to be another portrait of George Dyer, Bacon\u2019s friend and lover, who committed suicide in 1971. While Bacon created\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Figure in Movement<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0after Dyer\u2019s death, the portrait offered at Sotheby\u2019s on Monday night was made at the peak of their relationship in 1966, three years after the two met in London. Though expected to be the sale\u2019s biggest star, the Bacon also turned out to be the sale\u2019s biggest disappointment. With an estimate range of $30 million to $50 million,\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Portrait of George Dyer Crouching<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0hammered at $24.5 million (or $27.74 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Next up was one of the four paintings by the American abstract expressionist giant Joan Mitchell. The four Mitchell works available at Sotheby\u2019s were created at various points in her career, ranging from 1955 to 1989. One of them, entitled\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Noon (<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">created in 1969)\u00a0 measures nearly six-and-a-half by eight-and-a-half feet. Sotheby\u2019s specialists noted that Mitchell created <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Noon<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0around the same time she moved to V\u00e9theuil, a small town on the River Seine just west of Paris. Claude Monet once lived there\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">as well<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, featuring the town and the surrounding countryside in many of his works. However, that is not where the connections to Monet end. Art historians have previously investigated the influence that earlier artists like Monet and Matisse had on Mitchell\u2019s work. Her move to V\u00e9theuil seemed to have greatly impacted her use of color and form, with some calling works like\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Noon<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u201ca grand botanical abstraction.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Noon<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0ended up selling for $20.5 million (or $22.6 million w\/p), just slightly above its $20 million high estimate and far above its last selling price of $9.8 million w\/p at Christie\u2019s New York in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53994\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.09-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53994\" class=\"wp-image-53994\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.09-PM-231x300.png\" alt=\"An abstract painting of different patches of color, mainly green and blue, against a while canvas background.\" width=\"201\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.09-PM-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.09-PM-790x1024.png 790w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.09-PM-768x996.png 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.09-PM.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Noon<\/em> by Joan Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Finally,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">there was<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0one of the two works by Lucio Fontana featured at the sale.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0consists of an oval-shaped canvas pierced many times and painted bright yellow. These holes in the canvas and the ragged shapes they sometimes made were Fontana\u2019s attempts to push the boundaries of abstraction at a time when American abstract expressionists like Pollock, Mitchell, Rothko, and Frankenthaler dominated the art world.\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fontana punctured and slashed the canvas\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">itself<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, creating shapes and textures that were\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">not possible<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0with just paint.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0The painting is part of his\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La fine di Dio<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0series, consisting of thirty-eight works made between 1963 and 1964, all with the same egg-like shape. It last sold at Sotheby\u2019s London in 2003 for \u00a31.37 million w\/p (or \u00a32.4 million now). On Monday night, it sold for $19.7 million (or $22.9 million w\/p), becoming the third most valuable Fontana work ever sold at auction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With sales mostly consisting of high-value lots, there are often few surprises. However, Monday night ended with a bang for the final lot, an oil painting by Yayoi Kusama called <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/webnative\/images\/20\/37\/dcc67c574f5a909431bcc5861b52\/n11424-65lx4-cs-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Pacific Ocean<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Sotheby&#8217;s specialists gave it a presale estimate range of $1 million to $1.5 million. Within thirteen seconds of bidding, the Kusama exceeded its high estimate when someone in the telephone bank bid $1.7 million. After one minute and 10 seconds,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the $2.5 million bid was placed<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The $3 million bid came after two minutes. The bidding\u2019s frequency slowed down after that, but with multiple interested parties, it dragged on. Finally, after\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">just<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0under seven minutes of bidding, the hammer came down at $3.8 million (or $4.66 million w\/p), over two-and-a-half times the initial high estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53995\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.11.44-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53995\" class=\"wp-image-53995\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.11.44-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"An egg-shaped canvas painted yellow with a series of rough holes punctured into it.\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.11.44-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.11.44-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.11.44-PM-768x765.png 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.11.44-PM.png 932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio<\/em> by Lucio Fontana<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the end, the contemporary evening sale didn\u2019t do too badly. Out of 35 available lots, 17 sold within their estimates, giving Sotheby\u2019s a 49% accuracy rate. Additionally, nine lots (26%) sold below estimate, while six (17%) sold above. A total of three lots (9%) went unsold. The entire sale brought in $201 million (or $234.58 million w\/p), just slightly under the total presale low estimate of $217.6 million the sale might have made within its estimate had the Bacon not sold below estimate. Additionally, one of the three unsold lots was <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/7bbdfaf\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2500x2846+0+0\/resize\/800x911!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F1f%2F13%2F11ce70e045409fd1659b272bf7f4%2Fn11424-cxyrg-cs-16.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a 1984 Richard Diebenkorn painting<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0expected to sell for at least $18 million.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s sales at New York\u2019s auction houses had a decent start last night at Sotheby\u2019s with back-to-back contemporary sales. Things started at 6:30 pm with a short sale called The Now, featuring established giants and the best new artists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/05\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[224,189,634,944,197,709,192,751,207,20,15,429,120,11,9,606],"class_list":["post-53992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-20th-century-american-art","tag-20th-century-british-art","tag-20th-century-european-art","tag-20th-century-irish-art","tag-20th-century-italian-art","tag-abstract","tag-abstract-art","tag-abstract-expressionism","tag-auction-news","tag-auction-results","tag-comments-on-the-art-market","tag-contemporary-art","tag-modern-art","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-sothebys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sotheby&#039;s New York Contemporary Evening Sale - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On May 13th, Sotheby&#039;s hosted its Contemporary Evening sale, the first of the series of sales at New York&#039;s auction houses this month.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/05\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sotheby&#039;s New York Contemporary Evening Sale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On May 13th, Sotheby&#039;s hosted its Contemporary Evening sale, the first of the series of sales at New York&#039;s auction houses this month.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/05\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-14T21:46:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM-778x1024.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"778\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Sotheby&#8217;s New York Contemporary Evening Sale\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-14T21:46:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":812,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/sothebys-new-york-contemporary-evening-sale\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-2.12.19-PM.png\",\"keywords\":[\"20th Century American Art\",\"20th Century British Art\",\"20th Century European Art\",\"20th Century Irish Art\",\"20th Century Italian Art\",\"Abstract\",\"Abstract Art\",\"abstract expressionism\",\"Auction News\",\"Auction Results\",\"Comments on the Art Market\",\"Contemporary art\",\"Modern Art\",\"Rehs Contemporary - Art World News\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"sotheby's\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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