A bidder on the phone with New York chairman Alex Rotter triumphed over Christie’s European international senior director Isabelle de La Bruyere’s bidder to win the work-which sold well above its estimate of $20 million for a final price of $40 million.Īnother big-ticket item was a Cy Twombly abstraction from 1961 sold by banker-turned-art dealer Robert Mnuchin, who had the work for nearly 20 years.
Coming to the sale with a guarantee, it was sold from the collection of Peter Brant. The work that fetched the highest price during the second portion of the night was Andy Warhol’s orange oxidized portrait of Jean Michel Basquiat from 1982. Warhol Tops 20th Century Art Evening Sale Vincent van Gogh, Jeune homme au bleuet, 1889. It sold for $55.3 million to a bidder on the phone with Christie’s New York modern art specialist Max Carter. Cox was only the second owner of the work, having held onto it for four decades. A landscape scene titled L’estaque aux toits rouges (1883-1885) by Paul Cezanne also achieved a top result. The result set a new record for the French artist. The result, which elicited cheers from the audience, was nine times the $5 million estimate.Īnother blockbuster work from the sale was Gustave Caillebotte’s Jeune homme a sa fenetre (1876), which sold for $53 million to the J. After a lengthy pause between the two specialists, the work hammered with Jordan’s bidder and sold for $46.7 million. Two bidders on the phone with modern art specialist Conor Jordan and Hong Kong chairman Elaine Holt faced off for the work. Jeune homme au bleuet (1889), depicting a red-haired young man holding a blue flower by the stem in his mouth was completed just weeks before the artist’s death and had been in the Cox collection since 1981. The sale’s proceeds are going to the heirs of Max Meirowsky, Alexandrine de Rothschild, and representatives for Cox’s estate.Īnother work by van Gogh offered from the Texas mogul’s collection caused a stir. It was sold under duress by its original German-Jewish owner and looted from another in the years leading up to World War II. The landscape scene, which sold for $35 million, was offered under a three-party restitution settlement. Four bidders competed for Meules de blé (1888), a work on paper depicting an outdoor scene of yellow haystacks in Arles, France, where the painter spent his last days before his death. The same buyer, bidding with paddle number 619, won another of the sale’s offerings of work by van Gogh. It went for a final price of $71 million to a bidder in the room. Estimated to fetch $40 million, the work soared past its estimate with nine bidders between New York, London, and Hong Kong bringing the hammer price up to a staggering $62 million. The work that achieved the highest price from the Cox collection was van Gogh’s Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès ( Wooden Huts Among Olive Trees and Cypress Trees), a landscape painting from 1889 featuring a set of olive trees.
Van Gogh, Caillebotte Star in Cox Collection Christie’s specialists telephone bidding during a New York evening sale on November 11, 2021.
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