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Phillips’s evening sale of 20th-century and contemporary art in London comes up short, despite healthy mid-level bidding
by Carlie Porterfield March 07 , 2024
Phillips’s evening sale of 20th-century and contemporary art in London comes up short, despite healthy mid-level bidding
by Carlie Porterfield March 07 , 2024
The 27-lot sale brought in £10.9m without fees after three works were pulled and another three failed to sell.
Phillips’s evening sale of 20th-century and contemporary art was held in the afternoon in London on Thursday (7 March), seemingly to help ease the jam-packed schedule of auctions taking place in the British capital this week. As a whole, the sale brought in £10.9m before accounting for fees, just below the low end of the auction house’s estimates. The same sale last year fetched nearly double, £20.3m (with fees).
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