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- Estimate
- £400,000–£600,000 hammer ≈ $536,055–$804,082
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale, London · 1 March 2022
- Dimensions
- 72 x 72in. (182.8 x 182.8cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3484756
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Stanley Whitney, Great Balls of Fire. Christie's, 1 Mar 2022, lot 29. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3484756.
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Stanley Whitney, Great Balls of Fire. Christie's, 1 Mar 2022, lot 29. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3484756.
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From the same sale 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale · Mar 2022
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Choppers | Banksy | £3,000,000–£5,000,000 | |
| Buste d'homme | Pablo Picasso | £1,200,000–£1,800,000 | |
| Stehender männlicher Akt mit verschränkten Armen (Selbstportrait) | Egon Schiele | £1,500,000–£2,500,000 | |
| Reverse | Bridget Riley | £3,000,000–£5,000,000 | |
| Discoureur fossile (Fossilised Speaker) | Jean Dubuffet | £1,200,000–£1,500,000 | |
| L'esprit des roses (Au-dessus des fleurs) | Marc Chagall | £2,200,000–£3,200,000 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley Whitney | Radical Openness | $2,228,000 | Sotheby's, May 2022 | |
| Stanley Whitney | Parisian Blue | Sotheby's, May 2022 | ||
| Stanley Whitney | Untitled | Sotheby's, Mar 2023 | ||
| Stanley Whitney | Nightwatch | Sotheby's, Mar 2022 | ||
| Stanley Whitney | Stanley Whitney 史丹利・惠特尼 | A Brief History 簡短的歷史 | Sotheby's, Apr 2022 | ||
| Stanley Whitney | The Wild West | Sotheby's, Jun 2022 | ||
| Richard Prince | My First Girl | Sotheby's, Nov 2023 | ||
| Stanley Whitney | Stanley Whitney 史丹利・惠特尼 | SunRa 桑・拉 | Sotheby's, Oct 2022 |
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.