Another Record Week?
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After record-setting sales of Impressionist and Modern art last week, including the highest-earning auction to date, the soaring postwar and contemporary market now takes center stage at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
Hoping for a continued surge in prices in the field, both houses have packed sales with key Abstract Expressionist, Pop Art, and Minimalist works. Along with painting and sculpture by postwar giants like Willem de Kooning, David Smith, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, and Roy Lichtenstein, both houses also feature works from the past 10 years by noted artists including Damien Hirst, Lisa Yuskavage, Luc Tuymans, and Peter Doig.
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