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Back-to-Back Contemporary Sales at Sotheby’s Send Mixed Signals About Art Market

Back-to-Back Contemporary Sales at Sotheby’s Send Mixed Signals About Art Market

Artnet News · 13 Oct, 2023 @ 09:08

Sotheby's $19m Now sale outperformed its $39m Contemporary auction, with notable records set in the former for a Lynette Yiadom-Boakye painting, which hit £2.9 million ($3.6 million) and a painting by Mohammed Sami, which sold for £558,500 ($686,570).

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