Sandro Botticelli,\u00a0Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel<\/em>, 1480<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Art](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SOTHEBYS2020_0904_114228-6052_ALIVECOVERAGE-JCM-EDIT.jpg?w=800\")
<\/p>\nSandro Botticelli, Young Man Holding a Roundel<\/em>, ca. 1480.<\/div>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Julian Cassady Photography<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nThis Sandro Botticelli<\/a> portrait achieved the second-highest auction price for a work by an Old Master when it sold for $92.2 million, shooting past its estimate of $80 million. Coming to auction from the collection of the late New York real estate titan Sheldon Solow, who bought it in 1982 for \u00a3810,000 ($1.3 million), the painting shattered the Renaissance artist\u2019s previous record of $10.4 million, minted by the sale of the\u00a0Rockefeller Madonna<\/em>\u00a0(ca. 15th or 16th century) at Christie\u2019s in 2013. The work went to a Russian buyer bidding through Sotheby\u2019s London-based private client adviser Lilija Sitnika. The Botticelli record brought new life to the slumping Old Masters category, proving that old-world trophies like this one could still perform just as well as contemporary art at auction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nGustave Caillebotte,\u00a0Jeune homme \u00e0 sa fen\u00eatre (Young Man at His Window)<\/em>, 1876<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Caillebotte-e1640029934551.jpg?w=591\")
<\/p>\nGustave Caillebotte, Jeune homme \u00e0 sa fen\u00eatre (Young Man at His Window)<\/em>, 1876.Photo<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Sipa USA via AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nIn November, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles purchased Gustave Caillebotte\u2019s\u00a0Jeune homme \u00e0 sa fen\u00eatre (Young Man at His Window<\/a>)<\/em>, 1876,<\/em>\u00a0for a record-setting $53 million during an evening sale of Impressionist art. The result surpassed the French painter\u2019s previous auction high of $22 million, set just two years ago at Christie\u2019s. This work came from the holdings of Texas oil magnate Edwin Cox, who had held the painting for five decades before he died in 2020. Alongside works by Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas, the Caillebotte painting sold as part of a single-owner sale devoted to the Cox collection that brought in $332 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nPeter Doig,\u00a0Swamped<\/em>, 1990<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Peter](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peter-Doig-Swamped-e1633103220832.jpeg?w=721\")
<\/p>\nPeter Doig, Swamped<\/em>, 1990.<\/div>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Christie’s<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nIn November, during an evening sale at Christie\u2019s, Peter Doig\u2019s large-scale painting\u00a0Swamped<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(1990) was bought for $39 million. Secured with a guarantee, it went to a bidder on the phone with Christie\u2019s New York chairman Alex Rotter. Featuring a white boat floating amid pond weeds and tree stumps, the work had last come to auction in 2015, when the European collector who sold the work purchased it for $26 million.\u00a0Swamped<\/em>\u00a0re-set Doig\u2019s record, which had remained unchanged since 2017, when\u00a0Rosedale<\/em>\u00a0(1991) sold at Phillips in New York. Auction houses had placed a greater emphasis on living artists this year, and the Doig sale was a sign that this renewed focus was paying off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nFrida Kahlo,\u00a0Diego y yo<\/em>, 1949<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Frida](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Frida-Kahlo-Diego-y-yo-Art-Handler-e1637113308292.jpg?w=800\")
<\/p>\nFrida Kahlo, Diego y yo<\/em>, 1949.<\/div>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Sotheby’s<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nThis self-portrait by Frida Kahlo<\/a> that had been held in a private collection for 30 years sold for $34.9 million (including fees) at Sotheby\u2019s in New York last month. The painting depicts the tearful artist with an image of her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera, superimposed on her forehead, representing a third eye. The result quadrupled the artists\u2019s previous auction record of $8 million, notched in 2016 when her 1939 painting\u00a0Two Nudes in the Forest (The land itself)<\/em>\u00a0sold at Christie\u2019s in New York.\u00a0Diego y yo<\/em>, which came to the sale with a guarantee, was bought by collector Eduardo F. Costantini. The price made it the most expensive work of Latin American art sold in a public venue and one of the most expensive works by a woman ever auctioned. Still, Kahlo\u2019s record does not approach the one held by the priciest female artist, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, whose 1932 painting\u00a0Jimson Weed\/White Flower No. 1<\/em>\u00a0sold for $44.4 million in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAgnes Martin,\u00a0Untitled #44<\/em>, 1974<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Agnes](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/SOTHEBYS2021_1115_193325-0427_ALIVECOVERAGE-e1640026469139.jpg?w=757\")
<\/p>\nAgnes Martin, Untitled #44<\/em>, 1974.<\/div>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Sotheby’s<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nHitting the block alongside works by Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock during Sotheby\u2019s sale of the Harry and Linda Macklowe collection in November, Agnes Martin\u2019s\u00a0Untitled #44<\/em>, a white-striped canvas from 1974, spurred one of the most suspenseful bidding spars of the evening. After five bidders competed for the work, it ultimately was won by a buyer on the phone with Sotheby\u2019s Asia chairman Patti Wong for $17.7 million with premium. The result far surpassed Martin\u2019s previous auction record of $10.6 million, set in 2016 at Christie\u2019s in New York. Private collectors and museums are addressing historical gaps that have left women and artists of color under-represented in their holdings, and Martin\u2019s market has been ascending since a Tate Modern retrospective held in 2015. In that way, this record evinces a market-wide trend toward elevating overlooked figures not only within museums but also on the auction block.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAmoako Boafo,\u00a0Hands Up<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Auction](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-7.50.30-AM-1.png?w=800\")
<\/p>\nAmoako Boafo, Hands Up<\/em>, 2018.<\/div>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Christie’s<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nDuring Christie\u2019s Hong Kong<\/a> contemporary art evening sale in December, Amoako Boafo\u2019s\u00a0Hands Up<\/em>\u00a0(2018), a painting of a young woman modeling sunglasses, drew multiple bidders from Hong Kong, New York, and London. After a protracted bidding period, it eventually sold to a buyer based in Asia for HKD 26.7 million ($3.4 million), 13 times its HKD 2 million estimate. The result set a new record for the Ghanaian-born painter, tripling his previous auction milestone of $1 million set in 2019. Frenzied bidding for Boafo and other young artists at the Hong Kong evening sales show an enduring appetite for emerging artists among buyers in Asia\u2019s market hub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nBarbara Kruger,\u00a0Untitled (Your Manias Become Science)<\/em>, 1981<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Barbara](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-11.45.32-AM.png?w=756\")
<\/p>\nBarbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Manias Become Science)<\/em>, 1981.<\/div>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Courtesy Christie’s<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nComing from a trove of Pictures Generation works sold by New Jersey\u2013based neurosurgeon Abe Steinberger, Barbara Kruger\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>Untitled (Your Manias Become Science)<\/em>, 1981, was brought to auction during a Christie\u2019s modern and contemporary art sale this November. Selling for $1.2 million amid a Kruger retrospective that opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in October, the result outpaced Kruger\u2019s previous record price of $902,500, set back in 2011 during the sale of Peter Norton\u2019s collection at Christie\u2019s. Kruger\u2019s record came the same week that another pioneering female artist, Lee Bontecou, witnessed a new auction milestone. Together, these results served as a sobering reminder of how female artists\u2019 historical impact can often far outweigh their market values, which frequently lag behind that of their male counterparts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nElizabeth Catlett,\u00a0Head<\/em>, 1943<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-20-at-12.14.04-PM-e1640029167895.png?w=601\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nAt New York\u2019s Swann Galleries<\/a>, during a sale of African American art, Elizabeth Catlett\u2019s stone sculpture\u00a0Head<\/em>\u00a0(1943) sold for $485,000, more than four times its $100,000 estimate. The limestone figure is one of only two known stone sculptures made by Catlett before she finally emigrated to Mexico in 1947, seeking more freedom to pursue her artistic career than what was allotted to Black women in the U.S. at the time. The price surpassed her previous auction milestone of $389,000, set at Swann in 2019, and could signify that Catlett\u2019s market will expand more in the years to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSalman Toor,\u00a0Girl with Driver<\/em>, 2013<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Salman](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-08-at-2.45.31-PM-e1623178032524.png?w=800\")
<\/p>\nSalman Toor, Girl with Driver<\/em>, 2013.<\/div>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nIn a Phillips contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong held jointly with China-based Poly Auction this June, emerging artists drew the most attention among bidders. Salman Toor was represented by\u00a0Girl with Driver<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(2013), which hammered for HKD 5.5 million ($890,000)\u2014five times its estimate of HKD 1.2 million ($155,000). It surpassed Toor\u2019s auction record of $867,000, set just the month before Sotheby\u2019s, providing more proof that Toor is one of the fastest rising young artists in the auction world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nFrank Dobson,\u00a0Female Torso<\/em>, 1924<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Frank](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lot-123-Frank-Dobson-Female-torso-1926-est.-250000-350000-e1640027658484.jpg?w=800\")
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<\/p>\nThis Sandro Botticelli<\/a> portrait achieved the second-highest auction price for a work by an Old Master when it sold for $92.2 million, shooting past its estimate of $80 million. Coming to auction from the collection of the late New York real estate titan Sheldon Solow, who bought it in 1982 for \u00a3810,000 ($1.3 million), the painting shattered the Renaissance artist\u2019s previous record of $10.4 million, minted by the sale of the\u00a0Rockefeller Madonna<\/em>\u00a0(ca. 15th or 16th century) at Christie\u2019s in 2013. The work went to a Russian buyer bidding through Sotheby\u2019s London-based private client adviser Lilija Sitnika. The Botticelli record brought new life to the slumping Old Masters category, proving that old-world trophies like this one could still perform just as well as contemporary art at auction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n In November, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles purchased Gustave Caillebotte\u2019s\u00a0Jeune homme \u00e0 sa fen\u00eatre (Young Man at His Window<\/a>)<\/em>, 1876,<\/em>\u00a0for a record-setting $53 million during an evening sale of Impressionist art. The result surpassed the French painter\u2019s previous auction high of $22 million, set just two years ago at Christie\u2019s. This work came from the holdings of Texas oil magnate Edwin Cox, who had held the painting for five decades before he died in 2020. Alongside works by Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas, the Caillebotte painting sold as part of a single-owner sale devoted to the Cox collection that brought in $332 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n In November, during an evening sale at Christie\u2019s, Peter Doig\u2019s large-scale painting\u00a0Swamped<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(1990) was bought for $39 million. Secured with a guarantee, it went to a bidder on the phone with Christie\u2019s New York chairman Alex Rotter. Featuring a white boat floating amid pond weeds and tree stumps, the work had last come to auction in 2015, when the European collector who sold the work purchased it for $26 million.\u00a0Swamped<\/em>\u00a0re-set Doig\u2019s record, which had remained unchanged since 2017, when\u00a0Rosedale<\/em>\u00a0(1991) sold at Phillips in New York. Auction houses had placed a greater emphasis on living artists this year, and the Doig sale was a sign that this renewed focus was paying off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n This self-portrait by Frida Kahlo<\/a> that had been held in a private collection for 30 years sold for $34.9 million (including fees) at Sotheby\u2019s in New York last month. The painting depicts the tearful artist with an image of her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera, superimposed on her forehead, representing a third eye. The result quadrupled the artists\u2019s previous auction record of $8 million, notched in 2016 when her 1939 painting\u00a0Two Nudes in the Forest (The land itself)<\/em>\u00a0sold at Christie\u2019s in New York.\u00a0Diego y yo<\/em>, which came to the sale with a guarantee, was bought by collector Eduardo F. Costantini. The price made it the most expensive work of Latin American art sold in a public venue and one of the most expensive works by a woman ever auctioned. Still, Kahlo\u2019s record does not approach the one held by the priciest female artist, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, whose 1932 painting\u00a0Jimson Weed\/White Flower No. 1<\/em>\u00a0sold for $44.4 million in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Hitting the block alongside works by Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock during Sotheby\u2019s sale of the Harry and Linda Macklowe collection in November, Agnes Martin\u2019s\u00a0Untitled #44<\/em>, a white-striped canvas from 1974, spurred one of the most suspenseful bidding spars of the evening. After five bidders competed for the work, it ultimately was won by a buyer on the phone with Sotheby\u2019s Asia chairman Patti Wong for $17.7 million with premium. The result far surpassed Martin\u2019s previous auction record of $10.6 million, set in 2016 at Christie\u2019s in New York. Private collectors and museums are addressing historical gaps that have left women and artists of color under-represented in their holdings, and Martin\u2019s market has been ascending since a Tate Modern retrospective held in 2015. In that way, this record evinces a market-wide trend toward elevating overlooked figures not only within museums but also on the auction block.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n During Christie\u2019s Hong Kong<\/a> contemporary art evening sale in December, Amoako Boafo\u2019s\u00a0Hands Up<\/em>\u00a0(2018), a painting of a young woman modeling sunglasses, drew multiple bidders from Hong Kong, New York, and London. After a protracted bidding period, it eventually sold to a buyer based in Asia for HKD 26.7 million ($3.4 million), 13 times its HKD 2 million estimate. The result set a new record for the Ghanaian-born painter, tripling his previous auction milestone of $1 million set in 2019. Frenzied bidding for Boafo and other young artists at the Hong Kong evening sales show an enduring appetite for emerging artists among buyers in Asia\u2019s market hub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Coming from a trove of Pictures Generation works sold by New Jersey\u2013based neurosurgeon Abe Steinberger, Barbara Kruger\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>Untitled (Your Manias Become Science)<\/em>, 1981, was brought to auction during a Christie\u2019s modern and contemporary art sale this November. Selling for $1.2 million amid a Kruger retrospective that opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in October, the result outpaced Kruger\u2019s previous record price of $902,500, set back in 2011 during the sale of Peter Norton\u2019s collection at Christie\u2019s. Kruger\u2019s record came the same week that another pioneering female artist, Lee Bontecou, witnessed a new auction milestone. Together, these results served as a sobering reminder of how female artists\u2019 historical impact can often far outweigh their market values, which frequently lag behind that of their male counterparts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n At New York\u2019s Swann Galleries<\/a>, during a sale of African American art, Elizabeth Catlett\u2019s stone sculpture\u00a0Head<\/em>\u00a0(1943) sold for $485,000, more than four times its $100,000 estimate. The limestone figure is one of only two known stone sculptures made by Catlett before she finally emigrated to Mexico in 1947, seeking more freedom to pursue her artistic career than what was allotted to Black women in the U.S. at the time. The price surpassed her previous auction milestone of $389,000, set at Swann in 2019, and could signify that Catlett\u2019s market will expand more in the years to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n In a Phillips contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong held jointly with China-based Poly Auction this June, emerging artists drew the most attention among bidders. Salman Toor was represented by\u00a0Girl with Driver<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(2013), which hammered for HKD 5.5 million ($890,000)\u2014five times its estimate of HKD 1.2 million ($155,000). It surpassed Toor\u2019s auction record of $867,000, set just the month before Sotheby\u2019s, providing more proof that Toor is one of the fastest rising young artists in the auction world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\nGustave Caillebotte,\u00a0Jeune homme \u00e0 sa fen\u00eatre (Young Man at His Window)<\/em>, 1876<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nPeter Doig,\u00a0Swamped<\/em>, 1990<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nFrida Kahlo,\u00a0Diego y yo<\/em>, 1949<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nAgnes Martin,\u00a0Untitled #44<\/em>, 1974<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nAmoako Boafo,\u00a0Hands Up<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nBarbara Kruger,\u00a0Untitled (Your Manias Become Science)<\/em>, 1981<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nElizabeth Catlett,\u00a0Head<\/em>, 1943<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nSalman Toor,\u00a0Girl with Driver<\/em>, 2013<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nFrank Dobson,\u00a0Female Torso<\/em>, 1924<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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