An Evening of Records at Sotheby’s

By Robert Ayers

Published: May 16, 2007

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Mark Rothko, "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)" (1950)

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Francis Bacon, "Study from Innocent X" (1962)

Top Five Prices

1) Mark Rothko, White Center (Yellow, Pink, and Lavender
on Rose)
$72,840,000
(est. in excess of $40 million)
Anonymous

2) Francis Bacon, Study after
Pope Innocent X
$52,680,000
(est. in excess of $30 million)
Anonymous

3) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled
$14,600,000
(est. $6,000,000-8,000,000)
Dealer on behalf of Private Collector

4) Robert Rauschenberg, Photograph
$10,680,000
(est. $10,000,000-15,000,000)
Dealer on behalf of Private Collector

5) Tom Wesselmann Smoker
No. 17
$5,864,000
(est. $2,500,000-3,500,000)
Asian Trade

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5. Another auction record for the artist: Wesselmann’s Smoker No. 17, a rather dreamy—and now decidedly anachronistic—image of a beautifully manicured woman’s hand holding a smoking cigarette, made $5,864,000. A classic Wesselman Pop image, bought by an Asian trader.

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