Pursuits
Sotheby’s $343 Million Sale Led by Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’
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The sale of Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns artworks long held in private collections helped Sotheby’s tally $343.6 million of postwar and contemporary art.
The auction house last night was unable to surpass its record set Nov. 4, when $422 million of Impressionist and modern art was sold. The total beat its $323.6 million low estimate but failed to reach its upper level of $419 million. The tally also is less than the $380.6 million New York-based Sotheby’s took in at its equivalent evening sale last November.