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In a single week, collectors spent a whopping $2.2 billion on art at New York\u2019s auction houses. While that $236 million Klimt portrait made headlines, plenty of other paintings and sculptures sold for sums that might surprise you.<\/p>\n
Can you guess which of these works sold for more?<\/p>\n
Note: Listed sale prices include auction fees.<\/p>\n
Image credits: \u201cParadise Pies (VI): Red\u201d via Sotheby\u2019s; \u201cUntitled\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cFrom our side\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cTAGOMIZOR\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cBlumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)\u201d via Sotheby\u2019s; \u201cWaldabhang bei Unterach am Attersee (Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee)\u201d via Sotheby\u2019s; \u201cCowboy Eating with Shoulder Hole\u201d via Sotheby\u2019s; \u201cUntitled (Cowboy)\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cA Clear Unspoken Granted Magic\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cSarah\u201d via Phillips; \u201cModern Painting Triptych II\u201d via Sotheby\u2019s; \u201cNude with Blue Hair, State I\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cAbstraktes Bild\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cSunflower V\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cWall Relief with Bird\u201d via Christie\u2019s; \u201cHulk (Rock)\u201d via Sotheby\u2019s; \u201cAmerica\u201d via Sotheby\u2019s; gold by MirageC via Getty Images.<\/p>\n
Zachary Small contributed reporting. Produced by Josephine Sedgwick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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