Sotheby’s, which moved from London to New York and Belongs since 2019 to Franco-Israeli telecom magnate Patrick Drahihad topped the fall season in November by totaling $676.1 million in single-night sales, just with the first batch of 35 works from this Macklowe collection.
Monday evening, the 30 more Macklowe pieces were sold in 90 minutes for $246.1 million. With a “total of $922.2 million“, that in fact “the most expensive collection ever sold at auction“, welcomed Sotheby’s.
This one was marketed in two batches following the divorce of the wealthy couple formed by Harry Macklowe, a real estate developer, and Linda Burg, an honorary administrator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York.
Among the successful sales of the evening, the painting “Untitled” of Mark Rothko left for 48 million dollars, the “seascape” by Gerhard Richter sold for $30.2 million and the “Self Portrait” by Andy Warhol which reached $18.7 million, according to Sotheby’s.
In November, “The nose“by Alberto Giacomettian impressive suspended bronze on which the sculptor began to work in 1947 had been sold for $78.4 million“N°7“, minimalist painting by Mark Rothko, 82.4 million and “Number 17, 1951by Jackson Pollock sold for $61.1 million.
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