PAPER CHASE
by Deborah Ripley
The Halloween print auctions at
Christie’s and
Sotheby’s in New York were fairly lackluster, with the seasonable exception of the extraordinary
Edvard Munch Vampire prints that were the top sellers at both houses. Sotheby’s hand-colored example fetched $1,202,500, and Christie’s gorgeous
Vampire II brought $662,500, from an online bidder, no less.
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