{"id":1530,"date":"2022-05-18T08:13:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2022-05-18T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T02:15:15","slug":"sothebys-second-auction-of-storied-macklowe-collection-brings-246-m-for-record-high-total-of-922-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/sothebys-second-auction-of-storied-macklowe-collection-brings-246-m-for-record-high-total-of-922-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby\u2019s Second Auction of Storied Macklowe Collection Brings $246 M., For Record-High Total of $922 M."},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of the most widely anticipated auctions in the art market\u2019s history, the second portion of the collection of divorcing New York real estate developers Harry and Linda Macklowe fetched a collective $246.1 million at Sotheby\u2019s on Monday evening in New York.<\/p>\n

The night brought the vaunted Macklowe collection<\/a> total to $922.2 million, making it the most valuable single-owner sale ever to be sold at auction and surpassing the total achieved for the\u00a0Rockefeller collection sale<\/a>\u00a0at Christie\u2019s in 2018, which made $832 million against an estimate of $500 million.<\/p>\n

The guaranteed group of 30 works sold this week, 19 of which came to the sale with irrevocable bids, soared past its estimated haul of $167.6 million by more than $75 million. It was the second tranche of the 65 total works from the Macklowes\u2019 holdings to be auctioned\u2014part of a court-ordered sale as part the billionaire couple\u2019s closely watched divorce proceedings\u2014to be offered at the house\u2019s New York headquarters. The first sale staged last November generated $676.1 million, with records notched for esteemed artists not known as major market darlings like Agnes Martin, Robert Irwin, and Michael Heizer.<\/p>\n

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Mark Rothko,\u00a0Untitled<\/em>,1960.<\/span>SOTHEBY’S<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Sotheby\u2019s auctioneer Oliver Barker led the hour-and-a-half-long sale, which took place in the house\u2019s York Avenue salesroom. Barker welcomed a nearly full room of audience members, among them heavyweight dealers and advisers like David Nahmad, Mary Hoeveler, and Wendy Fischer. Pressure on Monday night was less palpable in comparison to last year\u2019s portion of the sale, where bidders competed for keys postwar works that charged the room with energy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is great value in the consistency of the works in the collection,\u201d said New York art advisor Erica Samuels, who attended this evening\u2019s auction in person. \u201cThis sale felt very matter of fact. It was all business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the works that fetched the highest price on Monday was an untitled deep red canvas by Mark Rothko from 1960 that sold for $48 million. Coming to the sale with an irrevocable bid, it hammered at $41.5 million, going to a bidder on the phone with Gregoire Billaut, Sotheby\u2019s New York chairman of contemporary art department; his client triumphed over a Hong Kong bidder on the phone with Sotheby\u2019s Asia chairman Patti Wong after several minutes. It was still far from surpassing Rothko\u2019s current auction record of $86.8 million, set in 2012 when\u00a0Orange, Red, Yellow<\/em>\u00a0(1961) sold at Christie\u2019s.<\/p>\n

A representative for Sotheby\u2019s Japan office won the bid for\u00a0Andy Warhol<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Vanitas: Skulls and Self Portraits<\/em>\u00a0(1962), a self-portrait overlaid in camouflage patterning, at a hammer price of $16 million, just above its $15 million low estimate. Elsewhere in the sale, bidding from Asia was present, with Hong Kong buyers prevailing for works by Cy Twombly, Sigmar Polke, and Mark Grotjahn that sold for prices between $5 million and $15 million.<\/p>\n

Gerhard Richter\u2019<\/a>s monumental 1975 canvas\u00a0Seestu\u0308ck (Seascape)<\/em>, a blurry view of a grey ocean horizon, sold for $30.2 million with premium, hammering at $26 million, or just above its low estimate. It went to a bidder on the phone with Sotheby\u2019s New York contemporary specialist David Galperin.<\/p>\n

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Andy Warhol,\u00a0Hammer and Sickle<\/em>, 1976.<\/span>COURTESY SOTHEBY’S<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Another big-ticket item that came to the sale with an irrevocable bid was Cy Twombly\u2019s\u00a0Synopsis of a Battle<\/em>\u00a0(1968), one of the artist\u2019s signature chalkboard-like black canvases with white scrawls; it sold for $15.3 million. Just two bidders\u2014one on the phone with Sam Valette, a London-based Impressionist & modern art specialist, and the other with New York\u2013based<\/a> contemporary specialist Jackie Watcher\u2014competed for the work. It hammered with Valette\u2019s client at $13.5 million, above its low estimate of $12 million.<\/p>\n

An untitled 1961 abstract canvas, painted in canary yellow, orange, and light blue tones, by Willem de Kooning, sold for $17.7 million, going for more than double the $7 million low estimate. The winning bidder was on the phone with Sotheby\u2019s New York head of private sales Courtney Kremers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti titled\u00a0Diego sur ste\u0300le II<\/em>\u00a0(1968), a pedestal-like sculpture of an elongated standing figure modeled after the artist\u2019s brother was among the postwar works that saw mild bidding. It sold for $8.9 million, against an estimate of $7 million, likely going to the guarantor.<\/p>\n

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Willem de Kooning,\u00a0Untitled<\/em>, 1961.<\/span>SOTHEBY’S<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

One of the most suspenseful bidding spars of the night was for a work by Agnes Martin. The long-undervalued artist\u2019s white-striped canvas\u00a0Every Morning Happiness<\/em>\u00a0(2001) made 4 times its low estimate of $2.5 million, finding a buyer on the phone with New York specialist Bame Fierro March for $9.9 million (with buyer\u2019s premium). He triumphed over a bidder in the room for it. That sum, however, came well below Martin\u2019s auction record of $17.7 million, set in November when her monochrome\u00a0Untitled #44<\/em>\u00a0(1974) sold in the first part of the Macklowe sales. The underbidder went on to win a second work by Martin that was offered, which sold for a hammer price of $5.3 million.<\/p>\n

Another silkscreen painting by Warhol, a red-and-black canvas titled\u00a0Hammer and Sickle<\/em>\u00a0from 1976 sold for $6.4 million, against an estimate of $4 million. Sigmar Polke\u2019s\u00a0Plastik-Wannnen\u00a0<\/em>(Plastic Tubs), featuring blue, yellow, and pink plastic wares painted with a clinical precision sold to a client of Sotheby\u2019s Switzerland chairman Caroline Lange for $6.5 million with fees, hammering well above its $3.5 million low estimate. A bronze sculpture by Giacometti, depicting the artist\u2019s brother Diego, sold for $8.6 million, or squarely within its pre-sale estimate of $7 million\u2013$10 million.<\/p>\n

Samuels, the New York art adviser, said of the works sold, which represent five decades of collecting primarily spearheaded by Linda Macklowe, show a \u201ccollector\u2019s imprimatur,\u201d from which the next generation of art patrons has something to learn.<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cThese are the artists that represent the styles of art that attracted her: Pop, Abstract Expressionism<\/a>, and Minimalism\u2014in essence, the art of her times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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