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In Brief: Phillips de Pury & Company

Published: June 1, 2009
Mar. 14: Saturday@Phillips
256 lots sold for £562,275 ($785,000)

LONDON—Top lot: A diptych by the Brazilian contemporary artist Adriana Varejão accounted, rather unexpectedly, for nearly a fifth of the sale’s gross. The work’s high estimate was only £3,000 ($4,000), but wound up bringing £73,250 ($101,000).

"In Brief: Phillips de Pury & Company" originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2009 Table of Contents.

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