{"id":1942353,"date":"2026-05-18T23:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1942353"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:44:48","slug":"s-i-newhouse-sale-nets-630-8-m-bringing-cumulative-total-to-1-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1942353","title":{"rendered":"S. I. Newhouse Sale Nets $630.8 M., Bringing Cumulative Total to $1 B."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tChristie\u2019s kicked off its marquee evening auctions this May, with a 16-lot sale of works from the collection of media magnate S .I. Newhouse.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sale, which featured top works by Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso, totaled a whopping $630.8 million with fees. It also re-set several records.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sale brings the cumulative total of works sold from Newhouse\u2019s collection to over $1 billion, after sales in 2018 for one work at $21.7 million, in 2019 for 11 works for $216 million, and in 2023 for 16 works at $178 million. The sale on Monday far outstripped those, no doubt due to the truly top material in the sale, including what Christie\u2019s called the largest Pollock drip painting still in private hands.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Pollock, titled Number 7A, 1948 <\/em>(1948), drew the most bids, with over 60 placed across a 10-minute bidding war, with no less than five bidders involved. It eventually sold to a buyer represented by Christie\u2019s global president Alex Rotter for $181.2 million, more than double Pollock\u2019s previous record of $61 million, set at Sotheby\u2019s New York in 2021. The painting is now one of the most expensive artworks ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n

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Jackson Pollock, Number 7A, 1948<\/em>, 1948.<\/span>Christie\u2019s Images Ltd. 2026<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tAlso setting a record was the Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i, titled Dana\u00efde,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>a bronze head dating to ca. 1913. That work drew less feverish bidding, selling after only half a dozen bids. Still, with a starting bid of $82 million, above Brancusi\u2019s previous record of $71.2 million, set at Christie\u2019s New York in 2018, the sculpture was all but guaranteed to set a new high-water mark.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe other works in the sale did well, though did not generate quite the fireworks of the Pollock. The Picasso painting T\u00eate de femme<\/em> landed at $14.4 million, with fees, well above its $8 million high estimate, while the similarly named sculpture T\u00eate de femme (Fernande)<\/em> landed square in its $40 million\u2013$60 million estimate, at $48.4 million with fees. The Joan Mir\u00f3 painting Portrait de Madame K.<\/em> totaled $53.5 million on a $25 million\u2013$35 million estimate, while Jasper Johns\u2019s Gray Target<\/em> netted $28.8 million on a $20 million\u2013$30 million estimate.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll in all a bang-up start of the week for Christie\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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