ART MARKET WATCH
Nov. 16, 2006While works by
Willem de Kooning and
Andy Warhol are the gold standard at the uptown auction houses, at
Phillips, de Pury & Co. in Chelsea the coin of the realm is
Richard Prince and
Christopher Wool. The room is fairly raw and much smaller, the crowd certainly is younger and prettier, and the totals considerably less. Phillips’ contemporary art sale of Nov. 16, 2006, totaled $29,694,800, with 60 of 68 lots finding buyers, or 88 percent.
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