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Wool, Judd, Flavin, among the buy-ins as energy peters out, only to be perked up by a Thiebaud sugar rush

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Wonderful Nicolas de Stael nude pursued by three, makes $10.5m hammer (est $7.5-9.5)

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Warhol Double Elvis snapped up by Brett Gorvy for $33.5m

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Bacon brings home a hard-won $44m, to a smattering of applause

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First big battle of the night chez @ChristiesInc, for Joan Mitchell's sunny Blueberry--at least six in pursuit--hammers for 14.5m, about 3x estimate

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Basquiat's Flexible goes for $40m hammer to bidder on phone with Miety Heiden at @phillipsauction

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Disputed Basquiat Flesh and Spirit doesn't find friends, though, fails to clear $30m est with $27m from a single phone bid

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Double records for Hockney tonight--for a pool ptg on paper and this 1990 canvas of the Pacific Coast Hwy, hammered down for $25m to Patti Wong's bidder

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Records fall for Avery Singer and Barkley Hendricks. The room's fired up

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This 😍Kerry James Marshall masterpiece rightly soars to $18.5 hammer, more than 3x previous record, establishing a new floor for KJM

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Bidders were spring-loaded for the Lynette Yiadom-Boakye sold to benefit the Studio Museum. One gent was so startled by the onrush, he dropped his cane #truestory

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Two bidders really want this Miro sculpture Personnage. Est $1.5-2.5m, up to $5m and neither has blinked

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Amy Cappellazzo and Adam Chinn flashing their bidders' paddle numbers in a jungle sign of aggression in pursuit of David Smith's Land Coaster. Chinn wins it for $5.7m hammer

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@Sothebys Ollie Barker doesn't have to work hard to drive the contest for the Mandels' orange Rothko from $5.9m to $16.5m

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This Monet's attractive estimate of 1.5-2.5m succeeds in sparking a five-way phone war on the way to $6m hammer

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Brancusi hammers at $63m to Gouzer

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Unique Brancusi portrait of Nancy Cunard, est$70m with a guarantor, with Maria Los at $56m, then Loic Gouzer

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Malevich hammers down at $76m to a buyer in the room

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@ChristiesInc Adrien Mayer, commencing Imp Mod evening sale: "Good morning to you in Asia". The Van Gogh behind him was owned by Liz Taylor

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Patti Wong hangs back on the much-hyped Modigliani, which perhaps unsurprisingly sells for $139m at hammer on single bid from Simon Shaw. $157m with fees, the highest price ever paid at Sotheby's, Newman announces immediately.