Christie's 21st Century Evening Sale Makes $96.5M in New York

Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale, the second and final evening sale of Spring Marquee Week, achieved $96.5 million in New York on Wednesday, 14 May 2025 at the Rockefeller Center saleroom. The sale sold 92 percent by lot and 97 percent by value, bringing the week’s running total to $626.5 million.

The top lot was Baby Boom, a 1982 triple portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, which sold for $23.4 million.

The sale opened with a dedicated group, For Art’s Sake: Selected Works by Tiqui Atencio & Ago Demirdjian, which achieved a combined $25.4 million, led by Cecily Brown’s Bedtime Story at $6.2 million.

A gestural abstraction in the vein of Cecily Brown, whose Bedtime Story led the For Art’s Sake group at $6.2 million

A selection of contemporary works from Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale, which achieved $96.5 million

Records were set for four artists. Marlene Dumas’s Miss January sold for $13,635,000, a new record for a work by a living female artist to sell at auction. Simone Leigh’s Sentinel IV sold for $5,737,000, Louis Fratino’s You and Your Things for $756,000, and Emma Mc Intyre’s Up bubbles her amorous breath for $201,600.

(Press Release)