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By the Numbers: Phillips 20th-Century and Contemporary Evening Auction, May 2023
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Annie Armstrong
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On May 17, Phillips hosted its 20th-Century and Contemporary Art evening auction, which offered the paddle-toting set an aperitif of sorts before Christie’s megawatt sale of Gerald Fineberg’s collection of Modern and postwar giants. The evening was marked by two intrepid bidders who made off with a handful of the evening’s most sought-after works—and also by the sale’s modest hammer total, which came in below the estimate. Below, the story by the numbers…