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Here’s Your Guide to the Priciest and Most Sought-After Artworks for Sale During New York’s $2.1 Billion Fall Auction Marathon | Artnet News

…Georges Seurat’s Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version) (1888), has been described as the most important work by the artist in private hands. (That is all the more notable considering Seurat only made 47 paintings in the first place.) It will undoubtedly smash the artist’s current $35 million auction record, set way back in 1999 for an 1884 oil from the collection John Hay Whitney at Sotheby’s.  …

…  Buckle up for what is sure to be another wild market ride for Andy Warhol, whose White Disaster [White Car Crash 19 Times] (1963), has an estimate of $80 million. The massive canvas, once owned by Swiss dealer Thomas Ammann, marks the first time in nearly 10 years that one of Warhol’s “Death and Disaster” paintings has come to market….

…  Expect bidders to duke it out over this Jean-Michel Basquiat portrait of prize fighter Sugar Ray Robinson. The asking price is in excess of $35 million, a territory that does not seem hard to reach considering that ten other Basquiat works at auction to date have exceeded it….