Source: Christie's
Last night in New York, Christie's auctioned nearly $412.3 million of post-war and contemporary works of art, including a seminal silk-screen by Andy Warhol that sold for $43 million.
The total broke a record for an auction of post-war work that had been set only the night before at Sotheby's.
Bidders from around the globe battled for pieces by Warhol, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, at Christie's Rockefeller Center showroom. New York Yankees' third-baseman Alex Rodriguez, sat front and center in a black stocking cap, though he snuck out about 30 minutes into the sale.