Evening Auctions to Watch During Fall's Marquee Week

"If the weekend winds didn't pick us up and carry us away already, then we should brace ourselves, as the much-anticipated Marquee Week descends on New York City's high-profile auction houses this week. Scheduled to blow through bank accounts and auction records, the evening sales are expected to pull in well over $1 billion altogether over the course of five days, with works from Gustav Klimt, Mark Rothko, Frida Kahlo, Ruth Asawa, Maurizio Cattelan, and others across dozens of lots."

"Mark Rothko's "No. 31 (Yellow Stripe)" (1958) is expected to smash records early into the evening with an estimate "in the region of" $50 million, a Christie's spokesperson said. The sale is also anchored by two David Hockney paintings, select sculptures by Alexander Calder, two of Lucien Freud's painted nude figures, and Georgia O'Keeffe's aptly seasonal "The Red Maple at Lake George" (1926)."

"Sotheby's New York has many tricks up its sleeve in anticipation of its inaugural lineup of marquee sales at its newly debuted Breuer Building headquarters, starting with Maurizio Cattelan's cast-gold functional toilet "America" (2016) that's currently installed in one of the restrooms until tonight in anticipation of Tuesday night's sale. Instead of sitting on the throne, it's possible that Justin Sun might instead be sitting this one out entirely"

New York City's Marquee Week features evening sales across Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips expected to total well over $1 billion across five days. Auction highlights include works by Gustav Klimt, Mark Rothko, Frida Kahlo, Ruth Asawa, Maurizio Cattelan, and others spanning dozens of lots. Christie's 20th Century Evening Sale opens with a museum-quality Ross Weis collection and Mark Rothko's No. 31 (Yellow Stripe) (1958) estimated near $50 million, alongside Hockney, Calder, Freud, and O'Keeffe. Sotheby's Now and Contemporary Evening Auction at the Breuer Building features Maurizio Cattelan's cast-gold toilet America (2016), with a roughly $10.2 million estimate.

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