Sought-After Sonnabend Works Sold in Private Auction

By Judd Tully

Published: April 3, 2008

Among the works reportedly sold is a Jeff Koons "Rabbit," one of an edition of 3.

The late Ileana Sonnabend, at Jeff Koons's 50th birthday celebration in January 2005

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At Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary art sale last May, Nina Sundell, the daughter and only offspring of Sonnabend and Castelli, sold Johns’s Figure 4” (1959) for a record $17.4 million. It had previously been part of her mother’s collection.

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