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- Estimate
- $50,000–$70,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Post-War & Contemporary Afternoon Session, New York · 16 May 2013
- Dimensions
- 32 x 18 x 22 in. (81.2 x 45.7 x 55.8 cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4421579
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Theaster Gates, Work Chair. Christie's, 16 May 2013, lot 524. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4421579.
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Theaster Gates, Work Chair. Christie's, 16 May 2013, lot 524. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4421579.
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From the same sale Post-War & Contemporary Afternoon Session · May 2013
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|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled | Phillip Taaffe (b. 1955) | $10,000–$15,000 | |
| Blood Entertainment | Rosemarie Trockel | $20,000–$30,000 | |
| Autobiographical Stories | Sophie Calle | — | upcoming |
| Check #11 | Sherrie Levine | $100,000–$150,000 | |
| The Exorcist Summer of Love | Nate Lowman | $200,000–$300,000 | |
| Carnival Snowman | Gary Hume | $180,000–$220,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theaster Gates | Layered Work, Vertical Seams | $101,600 | Sotheby's, May 2025 | |
| Theaster Gates | Strata in Cedar | Sotheby's, Sep 2022 | ||
| Theaster Gates | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Nov 2018 | ||
| Theaster Gates | Complicated gape in need of reflective paint | Phillips, Nov 2025 | ||
| Theaster Gates | theaster gates | she wears lace on her right shoulder | Sotheby's, Oct 2020 | ||
| Theaster Gates | cool gray study. no flame | Phillips, Nov 2024 | ||
| Theaster Gates | Race Riot | Sotheby's, May 2017 | ||
| Theaster Gates | Rubber Reduction Exercise | Phillips, Dec 2020 |
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.