Some promising young artists whose works highlighted the
Frieze fair attracted many buyers during a sale held by Phillips at their new London
headquarters in Berkeley Square on October 15, 2014.
For instance, Sideways, a geometric cut-out construction of raw canvases
realised in 2012 by young American artist Wyatt Kahn, a newcomer in the auction
world, established a record of £122,500 against a £60,000–80,000 estimate.
A large, undulating copper sculpture, We
The People (detail) (2011),
a piece of the Vietnamese artist Danh Vō artist's 250-segmentation of the
Statue of Liberty sold for a record £ 206,500 against a £100,000–150,000
estimate.
A record £1,142,500 million was also paid for a monumental painting by Tauba Auerbach
from her Fold series of paintings of crumpled paper against a low estimate of
£800,000
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