Christie’s raked in $421.9 million (with fees) on Thursday night with the third iteration of its back-to-back 20th and 21st century evening sales in New York. The sales, which…
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"Nowhere in the reports did I provide the positive or definitive attribution to Basquiat of any of the OMA works," she wrote.
The sale result was well below the $210.5 million achieved in last year's equivalent sale.
Records were also set for Shara Hughes, Flora Yukhnovich, Hilary Pecis, and Robert Nava.
The painting has been in Brant's collection for two decades.
Picasso and Basquiat were the highest grossing artists at the top auction houses last season.
The power couple pose in front of Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting "Equals Pi "(1982).
Auction house executives point to buying from clients in Asia to explain last year's fall and this year's rise.
Records were set for Loie Hollowell, Avery Singer, Christine Ay Tjoe and Kim Tschang-Yeul.