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- Estimate
- £60,000–£80,000 hammer ≈ $73,057–$97,409
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Contemporary Art Day Auction, London · 9 March 2017
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4547713
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Ai Weiwei, dress with flowers (no. 5). Sotheby's, 9 Mar 2017, lot 247. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4547713.
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Ai Weiwei, dress with flowers (no. 5). Sotheby's, 9 Mar 2017, lot 247. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4547713.
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From the same sale Contemporary Art Day Auction · Mar 2017
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled (Tomato Red) | Donald Judd | £40,000–£60,000 | |
| Atlantic Ocean, Cliffs of Moher | Hiroshi Sugimoto | £15,000–£20,000 | |
| Vogelbeesten | — | £30,000–£40,000 | |
| Nudes but10 | Thomas Ruff | £20,000–£25,000 | |
| Ring Image Study | Robert Mangold | £12,000–£18,000 | |
| F (A Thing is a Thing in a Whole Which It's Not) | David Ostrowski | £18,000–£25,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ai Weiwei | Ai Wei Wei 艾未未 | Table with Two Legs 兩條腿的桌子 | $84,413 | Sotheby's, Jan 2026 | |
| Ai Weiwei | Colored Vases | Sotheby's, Jun 2024 | ||
| Ai Weiwei | After Les Nuages, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst, Jun 2025 | ||
| Ai Weiwei | Up Yours, 2017 | Ketterer Kunst, Jul 2020 | ||
| Ai Weiwei | Dress with Flowers | Phillips, Jul 2020 | ||
| Ai Weiwei | Coloured Vases | Christie's, Oct 2025 | ||
| Ai Weiwei | Watermelon | Christie's, Mar 2016 | ||
| Ai Weiwei | Plate with Flowers | Sotheby's, Dec 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.