DThe halls are occupied, the offer is outstanding and well secured by guarantees, the willingness to invest is enormous: at the New York evening auctions of Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips, one record after the other fell and became two on Wednesday evening, days before the end of the two-week auction round -Billion threshold exceeded in total house income. Two private collections made a decisive contribution to this: Christie’s had the collection of the oil magnate Edwin Lochridge Cox, who died in 2020 at the age of 99, with impressionists and post-impressionists; Sotheby’s was able to show off the contemporary works of art that the Macklowe couple had put together before their divorce war provoked the foreclosure sale.
