All featured collections
Realized at sale$34.2M
Estimated today modeled~$35M
+2%Modeled value over timemodeled
Realized price carried forward by ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price trend for each lot’s category.
A modeled market-level estimate, not an appraisal. Individual pieces vary.
Documented sales
Gerhard Richter, “Abstraktes Bild (809-4)” (1994) Confirmed
Sotheby's·Contemporary Art Evening Auction, London · Oct 12, 2012
Then the highest auction price for a living artist. Clapton had bought it in 2001 as one of a set of three Richters for ~$3.4m total.
Bloomberg Image: Sotheby's
Realized£21,321,250 (~$34.2m)
“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary, and categories without enough comparable high-value data are shown as insufficient to estimate.
Notable historical collection. The realized figures are public auction results, from the dates shown. “Estimated today” and the value chart are modeled market estimates, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not a current holding.
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