Tonight, Phillips rounded out the Contemporary sales, totaling $97.2 million, coming in on the low end of the total estimate, with 80 percent of the 70 lots on offer sold.
Christie’s biggest auction of all time was an $852.9 million, two-and-a-half-hour contemporary art marathon that smashed records for Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey and Martin Kippenberger, among other artists.