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- Estimate
- £12,000–£15,000 hammer ≈ $21,966–$27,458
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Sotheby's L06023 · 22 June 2006
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3454072
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Robert Motherwell, Drawing. Sotheby's, 22 Jun 2006, lot 422. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3454072.
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Robert Motherwell, Drawing. Sotheby's, 22 Jun 2006, lot 422. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3454072.
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From the same sale Sotheby's L06023 · Jun 2006
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry James On Eastern Island | Nam June Paik | £30,000–£40,000 | |
| Untitled | Joseph Beuys | £12,000–£15,000 | |
| Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao | Hiroshi Sugimoto | £10,000–£15,000 | |
| Gran Canaria | Andreas Gursky | £35,000–£55,000 | |
| Untitled | Jesús Rafael Soto | £50,000–£70,000 | |
| Doublonnage (Dancer 1,2,3) | Yasumasa Morimura | £10,000–£15,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Motherwell | Black with No Way Out (Walker Art Center 313) | $21,760 | Sotheby's, Jul 2026 | |
| Robert Motherwell | Elegy Study I | Sotheby's, Oct 2022 | ||
| Robert Motherwell | Bastos | Sotheby's, Mar 2023 | ||
| Robert Motherwell | The Basque Suite (Belknap 50-59) | Sotheby's, Jan 2026 | ||
| Robert Motherwell | Sans titre | Sotheby's, Dec 2025 | ||
| Robert Motherwell | Black for Mozart | Bonhams, Oct 2023 | ||
| Robert Motherwell | Wave (E. & B. 475) | Phillips, Oct 2022 | ||
| Robert Motherwell | Untitled (Automatism) | Christie's, Dec 2021 |
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.