Christie's, New York · Artnet News
Newhouse Collection Achieves $1.1B at Christie's
Sixteen works from S.I. Newhouse's collection sold for $630.8 million, exceeding estimates significantly. Records fell for paintings by Pollock, Brancusi, and Rothko.
The Newhouse sale represented a major market moment, with estimate-smashing results across Abstract Expressionist and modernist works. Multiple paintings achieved prices significantly above presale expectations, demonstrating continued collector appetite for canonical 20th-century art. The sale total of $1.1 billion positions this as a landmark event in the spring auction season, with individual records set across several artist categories.
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