By Rozalia Jovanovic 4:51pm

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Allen Jones. Table, executed in 1969. (Courtesy Sotheby's)

Andy Warhol Self-Portrait Leads $56 M. Gunter Sachs Collection Evening Auction at Sotheby’s London

The Gunter Sachs Collection Evening Auction in London tonight saw some “frenzied bidding” as per Sotheby’s Twitter feed, and brought in a total of $56,353,203. While Andy Warhol’s Self Portrait (Fright Wig), topped the sale at $8.5 million (high estimate was $4.7 million), a risque 1969 table by Allen Jones also set a record at $1,5 million. Quite apropos for the objects of a playboy art collector who was famously married to Brigitte Bardot. Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 3/12/12 9:32am

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A detail from The Big Hawthorn, 2008, by David Hockney. Photograph: Richard Schmidt

Morning Links: The Evil Yellow Slugs Edition

Ian Jack wonders if it is a problem that David Hockney’s blossoms look like “evil yellow slugs.” [Guardian UK]

Georgina Adam on the ongoing controversy involving a Rauschenberg, a stuffed eagle and the IRS. [Financial Times]

David Shrigley has a new billboard coming to the High Line, at 10th Avenue and 18th Street, April 5—his deadpan brand of twee existential insecurity writ large, super large. [Paper Magazine] Read More