Auctions: Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales, November 9 and 10, 2010 @Sotheby's

Sotheby's is up second in the Fall Contemporary Art season in New York next week, with Evening and Day auctions Tuesday and Wednesday. With a high priced Gursky anchoring the photography offerings, for the most part, it's a gathering of usual suspects. There are a total of 39 lots of photography available across the two sales, with a total High estimate for photography of $4351000.

Here's the statistical breakdown:

Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including $10000): 0
Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of Low lots): NA

Total Mid Lots (high estimate between $10000 and $50000): 21
Total Mid Estimate: $641000

Total High Lots (high estimate above $50000): 18
Total High Estimate: $3710000

The top photography lot by High estimate is lot 8, Andreas Gursky, Frankfurt, 2007, at $1200000-1800000. (Image at right,top, via Sotheby's.)

Here's the list of photographers represented by three or more lots in the two sales (with the number of lots in parentheses):

Vik Muniz (5)

Hiroshi Sugimoto (4)

Andreas Gursky (3)

Thomas Ruff (3)

The complete lot by lot catalogs can be found here (Evening) and here (Day).

Contemporary Art, Evening Auction
November 9th

Contemporary Art, Day Auction
November 10th

Sotheby's
1334 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021