ART MARKET WATCH


Nov. 15, 2006

It was just another record-breaking auction at Sotheby’s New York on the evening of Nov. 14, 2006. In the first sale in a week of contemporary art sales, Sotheby’s totaled $125,132,800, with 76 of 83 lots finding buyers, or almost 91 percent. By comparison, the Sotheby’s sale of a year ago totaled $114.5 million on 48 of 54 lots, and in fall 2004 the house did $92 million on a sale of 62 lots.

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