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Christie's sale of postwar and contemporary art held on Wednesday 12, November 2014 realized 852.9 million US—way above the 600 million estimate 15 artist records set.

Of 80 lots offered (two were withdrawn), 75 (or 94 percent) were sold. By value the auction realized 97 percent.

As expected, the stars of the evening were Warhol's silkscreen portraits of icons Elvis and Marlon Brando which accounted for 151.5 million USD of that total. The Elvis portrait was hammered at 73 million USD ($81.9 million with premium) while the Brando portrait went for 62 million (69.6 million USD with premium).

Since the late 1970s, the works Triple Elvis (Ferus Type) (1963) and Four Marlons (1966) had been hanging in a casino in Aachen, Germany, owned by WestSpiel, a German government–controlled company which bought them from the Swiss dealer Thomas Amman, respectively for 85,000 USD and 100,000 USD.

Bought for 2,3 million USD at Christie's London in 2009, Peter Doig's 1994 oil Pine House (Rooms for Rent), which was estimated to sell for around 15 million, fetched 18 million USD.

A Cy Twombly chalkboard painting, Untitled (1970) set a new auction record for the artist selling at 69.6 million USD, well above its high estimate of 55 million.

Ed Ruscha's 1963 oil painting Smash sold for a record 30 million USD in favour of Larry Gagosian who also bought for 22,6 million USD  Martin Kippenberger's Untitled (1988) a self-portrait that was estimated to sell for 15–20 million.

Sold in May 2008 at Christie's New York for 8,8 million USD, Roy Lichtenstein's Reflections on the Prom (1990), an oil and Magna on canvas, sold for 21.4 million USD against an estimate of 15 million but the artist's earlier oil and graphite on canvas Keds (1961) remained unsold.