黑板畫拍得7000萬美元天價 Cy Twombly picture fetches $70m at New York Sotheby’s sale

A Cy Twombly chalkboard picture led Sotheby’s contemporary sale on Wednesday evening, setting a record for the artist and beating the $60m presale estimate with a hammer price of $62.8m, or a total of $70.5m including the auction house’s fees.

賽堠姆佈雷(Cy Twombly)的一幅黑板畫週三晚領銜蘇富比(Sotheby’s)當代藝術品拍賣會，創下這名藝術家的個人紀錄，並且超出拍賣前預估的6000萬美元，拍得6280萬美元，若加上拍賣行的費用，買家將付出7050萬美元天價。

The New York sale was closely watched as a 10-day auction stretch with record inventory weighed on the market and participants’ nerves.

這場紐約拍賣會受到密切關注，因爲拍品數量創紀錄、爲期10天的拍賣給市場帶來壓力，也令參與者神經緊張。

The sale narrowly beat its presale estimate of $254m by bringing in $256.3m before fees, or $294.9m when the “buyer’s premium” was included. With 81.5 per cent of lots sold, it was one of the stronger sales in the past week, in which few auctions have made it to their estimates amid concern that stretched prices and the summer’s financial market volatility might weigh on the global art market.

拍賣所得略微超過預估的2.54億美元，未計入費用之前爲2.563億美元（計入“買方佣金”後達到2.949億美元）。鑑於81.5%的拍品成功拍出，這場拍賣會是過去一週裏比較強勁的拍賣會之一，在人們擔憂價格已經偏高以及今夏金融市場動盪可能拖累全球藝術品市場的大背景下，過去一週沒有幾場拍賣會達到預估的拍賣所得。

A 1972 Andy Warhol portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong sold for a hammer price of $42.2m, beating its estimate of $40m. Including fees, the telephone buyer will pay $47.5m, the top price for a Warhol this season. The work came from the collection of hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, according to people present at the auction. Four of the seven Warhols on offer went unsold.

安迪茠霍爾(Andy Warhol) 1972年創作的中國領導人毛澤東肖像拍得4220萬美元，高於4000萬美元的預估價。若計入拍賣行費用，通過電話競拍的買家將付出4750萬美元，這是沃霍爾作品在本拍賣季拍得的最高價格。據參加拍賣會的人士介紹，這幅作品來自對衝基金經理史蒂夫科恩(Steve Cohen)的收藏品。此次拍賣的7件沃霍爾作品中有4件流拍。