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$800-1,200, which climbed to $2,000. An album of British Columbia views also climbed to double its top estimate at $1,200.
[331 lots offered, $64,500 sold total, 14 percent unsold by lot]

- Bonnie Barrett Stretch

predicted. We were smack dab right in between the estimates."
[82 lots offered, $4,343,400 knockdown total, $3,819,900 sold total, 14.6 percent unsold by lot]

- S.G.

"I didn't think we'd beat last fall's sale record," Sotheby's Lucy Havelock-Allan said, yet, on May 9, Sotheby's did it again. In spite of the generally lackluster group of works being offered, buyers attended and bought, for a total of $6,097,750. (The art fever spread by the opening of MoMA and the Chicago Art Fair that very same week undoubtedly had its effect.) As stylish buyers and fashionable buying collided in Sotheby's auction room — looking more like a single's bar than anything else, although Havelock-Allan said, "No one tried to pick me up" — records were made and broken. Or is it, records were made to be broken?

Alexander Calder's 24-foot-high metal mobile sculpture, Big Crinkly, 1971, from the estate of the Düsseldorf dealer, Alfred Schmela, is now the most expensive work ever sold at auction by that artist. Martin Selig, a real estate developer from Seattle, paid $775,000 for Big Crinkly and plans to place it in the courtyard of a 76-office building under construction in Seattle, according to Havelock-Allan. Willem de Kooning's Bolton Landing, 1957, was bought by an agent for a private collector for $770,000.

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Alexander Calder's Big Crinkly set an auction record for the artist at $775,000 at Sotheby's on May 9.

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