Lot 108 · Post-War and Contemporary Art Online
Miles Davis, New York, 1986
Irving Penn · selenium-toned gelatin silver print
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- Estimate
- £25,000–£35,000 hammer ≈ $32,369–$45,316
- Result
- upcoming — 12 March 2025
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, London · 12 March 2025
- Dimensions
- in. (37.6 x 37.5cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3178077
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
- Cite this record
- TB-2026-3178077 — https://thebasis.art/cite/TB-2026-3178077
Irving Penn, Miles Davis, New York, 1986. Christie's, 12 Mar 2025, lot 108. estimate £25,000–£35,000, unsold at time of record. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3178077.
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88% chance this lot finds a buyer · market base rate 72%
Of the 92,006 held-out lots the model scored about 88%, 84% sold.
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Irving Penn, Miles Davis, New York, 1986. Christie's, 12 Mar 2025, lot 108. estimate £25,000–£35,000, unsold at time of record. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3178077.
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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.