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- Estimate
- $150,000–$200,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Contemporary Art Day, New York · 15 November 2007
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3705641
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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John Chamberlain, Idioms Delight. Sotheby's, 15 Nov 2007, lot 301. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3705641.
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John Chamberlain, Idioms Delight. Sotheby's, 15 Nov 2007, lot 301. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3705641.
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From the same sale Contemporary Art Day · Nov 2007
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled | Anselm Reyle | $120,000–$180,000 | |
| Upstate | Richard Prince | $40,000–$60,000 | |
| Untitled | Peter Saul | $40,000–$60,000 | |
| Untitled | Keith Haring | $40,000–$60,000 | |
| Der Physiognomeese | Jonathan Meese | $45,000–$65,000 | |
| Eye Love Monogram | Takashi Murakami | $400,000–$600,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Chamberlain | Lexiphanic | $264,000 | Sotheby's, Nov 2024 | |
| John Chamberlain | Untitled | Christie's, May 2024 | ||
| John Chamberlain | Night Talk | Sotheby's, Mar 2024 | ||
| John Chamberlain | Chammy Mackallow | Sotheby's, Nov 2021 | ||
| John Chamberlain | Petittoes Pogamogan | Sotheby's, Oct 2025 | ||
| John Chamberlain | The Vagabond's Prayer | Phillips, May 2022 | ||
| John Chamberlain | She Murmured Blondly | Christie's, Oct 2024 | ||
| John Chamberlain | Shebeen Cardoon | Sotheby's, Jun 2023 |
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.