PHILLIPS’S CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE TOTALS $46.5 MILLION

Sunday night’s twentieth-century and contemporary art evening sale at Phillips auction house brought in $46.5 million. Highlights included Maurizio Cattelan’s Mini-me, 1999, which sold for $749,000; Leon Kossoff’s Two seated Figures no.1 (My Parents), 1980, which sold for $737,000; and Jeff Koons’s Naked, 1988, which sold for $5,765,000.

Meanwhile, Marlene Dumas’s Night Nurse, 1999–2000, fetched around $2.5 million and Jean Dubuffet’s Barbe des rites, 1959, sold for over $3 million. Three works by Mark Bradford—who was chosen to represent the US in the 2017 Venice Biennale—found buyers: Building “The White Whale,” 2012, Mixed Signals, 2009, and Untitled (Corner of Desire and Piety) III, 2008. The former two sold for around $3 million each. Works by Roy Lichtenstein, John Currin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat failed to find buyers.