Roy Lichtenstein
Ohhh…Alright….
oil and magna on canvas, painted in 1964
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR ARTIST
Price Realized: $42,642,500/ £26,438,350/ €31,129,025
Andy Warhol
Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable)
oil and magna on canvas, painted in 1962
Price Realized: $23,882,500/ £14,807,150/ €17,434,225
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Zwei Kerzen (499-2)
oil on canvas
Painted in 1982.
Price Realized: $12,962,500/ £8,036,750/ €9,462,625
Lichtenstein’s ‘Ohhh…Alright’ sells for $42.6 million Christie’s November 2010 sale of post-War and contemporary Art realized $272,873,000/ £169,181,260 /€199,197,290. The evening’s top price of $42.6 million – a world auction record for Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) – was achieved for ‘Ohhh…Alright’. Warhol’s ‘Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener’ sold for $23.9 million]]>
November 11th 2010, source: Christie’s
Painted in 1964 using his signature Ben-Day dots, Lichtenstein’s image of a blue-eyed, flame haired beauty illustrates the brash comic styling of the artist’s most celebrated period of artistic production.
In addition to Lichtenstein’s Ohhh…Alright and Warhol’s Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable), top prices were achieved for the following artists and works:
Balloon Flower (Blue) by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), from the Daimler Art Collection is one of the artist’s most important outdoor sculptures and belongs to his acclaimed and beloved Celebration series. This magnificent work, which has attracted sightseers and art lovers alike to the plaza in front of Christie’s Rockefeller Center Galleries, fetched $16,882,500/ £10,467,150/ €12,324,225. Balloon Flower (Blue) is the first in a series of only five Balloon Flowers in existence, each a different color.
Zwei Kerzen by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), from one of the most highly regarded series of paintings of Candles and Skulls that Richter created in 1982 and 1983. This intimate and contemplative painting, executed with stunning photographic realism, fetched $12,962,500/ £8,036,750/ €9,462,625.
No. 18 (Brown and Black on Plum) by Mark Rothko (1903-1970), painted in a dark-toned and somber color palette, comes from the collection of the late Dr. Franz Meyer, the well-known art historian and museum director. Previously included in major exhibitions and retrospective’s of Rothko’s work, the painting sold for $9,602,500/ £5,953,550/ €7,009,852.
In addition, new world auction records were achieved for a number of artists, including Mark Tansey for On Photography (Homage to Susan Sontag), 1982, which realized $4,674,500/ £2,898,190/ €3,412,385, breaking the record set just six months ago at Christie’s New York for the artist’s Push/Pull from the Collection of Michael Crichton. Also setting records were Richard Lindner for West 48th Street, 1964 which achieved $1,022,500/£633,950/ €746,425, Mark Grotjahn for Untitled (Lavender Butterfly Jacaranda over Green) which sold for $1,482,500/ £919,150/ €1,082,225, and Morris Louis for Saf, which realized $2,994,500/ £1,856,590,/ €2,185,985. Additional records by medium were achieved for a work on paper by Lindner, a sculpture and work on paper by Cy Twombly, a work on paper by Marcel Duchamp, and a work on canvas by Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
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