Lot 414 · Contemporary Discoveries
A cosmic filament - two billion years after the big bang
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- Estimate
- $5,000–$7,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Contemporary Discoveries, New York · 3 October 2023
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5154462
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Tomás Saraceno, A cosmic filament - two billion years after the big bang. Sotheby's, 3 Oct 2023, lot 414. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5154462.
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Tomás Saraceno, A cosmic filament - two billion years after the big bang. Sotheby's, 3 Oct 2023, lot 414. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5154462.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Andy Warhol | Neuschwanstein | Phillips, Sep 2025 | ||
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| Damien Hirst | Circles in the Sand, from In a Spin, the Action of the World | Phillips, Jun 2023 | ||
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.