Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale on 27 February totalled $21.3 million, reports artnews.com

The total proceeds of Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale, held on 27 February, came to $21.3 million, reports artnews.com. The most expensive lot of the evening was Helen Frankenthaler's abstraction Concerto, dated 1982. The lot went under the hammer for $2.1 million dollars.

Of the 217 lots offered, 55 remained unsold. Among the works that failed to find buyers were pieces by Keith Haring, Ai Weiwei, Takashi Murakami and Alexander Calder.

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Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale on 27 February totalled $21.3 million, reports artnews.com

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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