Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session, New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at EDT

128 Lots

101

Emmi Whitehorse (Diné)

Canyon Lake I

Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000

Sold For: $177,800

102

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai)

Eagle Wing

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $40,640

103

Hedda Sterne

Untitled

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Sold For: $10,795

104

Wolfgang Paalen

Phantoms I

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

Sold For: $15,240

105

René Magritte

La belle lurette

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Sold For: $152,400

106

Chico da Silva

Untitled

Estimate: $50,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $63,500

107

Bill Traylor

Black Bear

Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000

Sold For: $30,480

108

Elaine de Kooning

Untitled (Bullfight Series)

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $152,400

109

Lois Dodd

Wild Geraniums

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $228,600

110

Willem de Kooning

Still Life

Estimate: $150,000 - $250,000

Sold For: $330,200

111

Milton Avery

The White Hen and Fantasy Creatures (double-sided)

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $95,250

112

Milton Avery

Dark Sea, Dark Sky

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $139,700

Modern & Contemporary Art

Artists to (Re)discover

From auction debuts to rediscoveries, these are the artists to know ahead of our May Modern & Contemporary Art sales.

Wassily Kandinsky

Rapallo-Stürmischer Tag

Estimate: $120,000 - $180,000

Sold For: $101,600

114

Arshile Gorky

Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $88,900

115

Guy Pène du Bois

Conversation - Paris Cafe (Yvonne Pène du Bois)

Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000

Sold For: $27,940

116

Raoul Dufy

La fenêtre aux vitres de couleurs

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

118

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Jeune femme assise

Estimate: $150,000 - $250,000

Sold For: $254,000

119

Pierre Bonnard

Jardin au bord de la Seine

Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000

Sold For: $228,600

120

Odilon Redon

Fleurs dans un vase

Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000

Sold For: $254,000

121

Henri Matisse

Nu assis ou femme au collier

Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000

122

Françoise Gilot

Flora

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $76,200

123

Pablo Picasso

Tasse et bananes

Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000

Sold For: $177,800

124

Fernand Léger

Composition à l'échequier

Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000

Sold

125

Willi Baumeister

Maschine und Mensch

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $66,040

Modern & Contemporary Art

When the Old Is New Again

How contemporary artists use art history to rewrite its course.

Howard Hodgkin

Small Tree near Cairo

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $139,700

127

Philip Guston

Untitled

Estimate: $350,000 - $500,000

Sold

128

Lynne Drexler

Untitled

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $57,150

129

Michael Corinne West

Save the Tiger

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $40,640

130

Judith Rothschild

Figure in Space

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Sold For: $30,480

131

Hans Hofmann

Magenta, Yellow and Black

Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000

Sold For: $279,400

132

Alice Baber

The Green Day of the Jaguar

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $133,350

133

Helen Frankenthaler

Spirits of Wine

Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,800,000

Sold For: $1,168,400

134

Robert Motherwell

Hollow Men Series

Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000

Sold For: $698,500

135

Robert Motherwell

Zen IV

Estimate: $120,000 - $180,000

136

Vivian Springford

Untitled (VSF 347)

Estimate: $70,000 - $100,000

Sold For: $95,250

137

Helen Frankenthaler

Untitled

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $44,450

Modern & Contemporary Art

PIED-À-TERRE by Alyssa Kapito

The interior designer highlights the joys of collecting and showcases the space she curated at Phillips New York.

Joan Mitchell

Untitled

Estimate: $350,000 - $550,000

Sold For: $584,200

139

Norman Lewis

Untitled

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

140

Charles Alston

Black and White #7

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $215,900

141

Ernie Barnes

Human Celebration

Estimate: $150,000 - $250,000

Sold For: $292,100

143

Peter Saul

Prune Head

Estimate: $120,000 - $180,000

Sold For: $152,400

144

Fritz Scholder (Luiseño)

Super Kachina

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $177,800

145

Andy Warhol

Skull

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $69,850

146

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled

Estimate: $180,000 - $250,000

Sold For: $190,500

147

Keith Haring

Untitled

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $152,400

148

Yayoi Kusama

Butterfly

Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000

Sold For: $355,600

149

On Kawara

NOV. 8, 1977 (from Today Series, no. 23)

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $330,200

150

Ed Ruscha

Suddenly Spastic

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $114,300

151

Ed Ruscha

TREMBLING STALKS OF AQUATIC VEGETATION

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $165,100

152

Ed Ruscha

We're This and We're That Aren't We?

Estimate: $180,000 - $250,000

Sold For: $177,800

153

Josef Albers

Study for Homage to the Square: Oracle

Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000

Sold For: $220,001

154

Donald Judd

Untitled

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Sold For: $101,600

155

Lynda Benglis

Untitled

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $127,000

156

Louise Nevelson

Untitled

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Sold For: $203,200

157

Olga de Amaral

Untitled

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $139,700

159

Brice Marden

Honey's Drawing

Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000

Sold For: $35,560

160

Agnes Martin

Untitled

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold

161

Ed Clark

Ife

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $53,340

162

Gerhard Richter

Untitled 26.2.89

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $190,500

163

Richard Serra

Untitled #21

Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000

164

Lynn Chadwick, R.A.

Maquette, High Wind

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $44,450

165

Moissey Kogan

Mädchenkopf I (Head of a Girl I)

Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000

Sold For: $8,890

166

Gaston Lachaise

Garden Figure (second state) [LF 137]

Estimate: $300,000 - $400,000

167

Manolo Valdés

Reina Mariana

Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000

Sold For: $444,500

168

Aristide Maillol

La nymphe aux fleurs

Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000

Sold For: $635,000

169

Édouard Vuillard

Mme Arthur Fontaine au piano

Estimate: $120,000 - $180,000

170

André Derain

Nus dans un paysage

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

171

Louis Valtat

Les deux soeurs assises, Madame Zette et Madame Juin

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

172

Maurice de Vlaminck

Village et bord de rivière

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $101,600

173

André Derain

Nature morte avec bouteille

Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000

174

Jean Metzinger

Femme au perroquet (La fenêtre)

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Sold For: $114,300

176

Alexander Calder

Bow Tie

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

177

John Chamberlain

Tonk #8

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $165,100

178

Robert Indiana

Number 0

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $69,850

179

Robert Rauschenberg

Access

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $50,800

180

Ken Price

Lower

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold

181

Lawrence Weiner

Stretched As Tightly As Is Possible (Satin) & (Petroleum Jelly)

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $69,850

182

Neil Jenney

Biosphere #3

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $323,850

183

Joseph Kosuth

'Word, Sentence, Paragraph (Z. & N.) #16'

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

184

Jack Goldstein

Untitled

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $101,600

185

James Rosenquist

The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Gift Wrapped Doll #18

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $114,300

186

Richard Estes

Staten Island Ferry Docking

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $76,200

187

Richard Estes

Passages (Shopping Center)

Estimate: $70,000 - $100,000

Sold For: $88,900

188

Isamu Noguchi

Small Wonder

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $30,000

189

John McCracken

Vibe

Estimate: $70,000 - $100,000

Sold For: $63,500

190

John McLaughlin

Untitled

Estimate: $70,000 - $100,000

Sold For: $120,650

191

John McLaughlin

Untitled

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $50,800

192

Alfred Leslie

Hipped

Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000

Sold For: $241,300

193

Alfred Leslie

Lake Front Property

Estimate: $120,000 - $180,000

Sold For: $152,400

194

Leon Polk Smith

Great Hall

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

195

Lorser Feitelson

Magical Space Forms

Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000

Sold For: $57,150

196

Jean-Paul Riopelle

Cold Climate

Estimate: $70,000 - $100,000

Sold For: $101,600

197

Michael Goldberg

Untitled

Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000

Sold For: $30,480

198

James Brooks

Blow

Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000

Sold For: $30,480

199

Friedel Dzubas

Night Shuttle

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $76,200

200

Ilya Bolotowsky

Ellipse with Yellows

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $22,000

201

Ed Clark

Love Birds

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $95,250

202

Alex Katz

Jessica (Study for New Pink)

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $101,600

203

Andy Warhol

Karen Lerner

Estimate: $70,000 - $100,000

Sold For: $111,760

204

Richard Pettibone

Andy Warhol 'Lavender Disaster', 1964

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $27,940

205

Richard Pettibone

Andy Warhol 'Liz' 1962

Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000

Sold For: $38,100

206

Kenny Scharf

BEYOND

Estimate: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold For: $241,300

207

Peter Saul

He Forgot Something

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Sold For: $82,550

208

Karel Appel

Bride

Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000

Sold For: $88,900

209

Karl Wirsum

Ahh! Macy's Grazed

Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000

Sold For: $22,860

210

Cundo Bermúdez

Arlequines

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $44,450

211

Gustav Klimt

Frontal stehend, linke Hand an die Hüfte gelegt (Standing Woman with Hand on Hip)

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $24,130

212

Armand Guillaumin

Gelée blanche à Crozant

Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000

213

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

The Beach and Along the Sea with Boat and People (double-sided)

Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000

214

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Study St. Malo

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold

215

Milton Avery

Young Mother and Child

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $38,100

216

Reginald Marsh

Coney Island (double-sided)

Estimate: $18,000 - $25,000

Sold For: $22,860

217

Willem de Kooning

Reclining Woman

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

218

Willem de Kooning

Reclining Women

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

219

Martín Ramírez

Untitled (Arches)

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

220

Jean Dubuffet

Réchaud-four à Gaz

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

Sold For: $13,970

221

Jean Dubuffet

Personnage

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $101,600

222

Hans Hartung

P10-1976-H20

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Sold For: $27,940

223

Peter Saul

Study for Prune Head

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

224

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Free comb with Pagoda

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Sold For: $177,800

225

Andy Warhol

Dollar Sign

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

226

Andy Warhol

Ladies and Gentlemen

Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000

Sold For: $25,400

227

Alexander Calder

Rose des sables

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $133,350

228

Alexander Calder

Grass

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $158,750

229

Alexander Calder

Untitled

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold For: $127,000

230

Alighiero Boetti

Pisciarsi in bocca

Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000

Sold For: $63,500

231

Nuvolo (Giorgio Ascani)

Primavera Inoltrata

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

232

Daniel Spoerri

Tavola toscana (Post-Sevillane, Tableau piège)

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

Sold For: $19,050