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- Estimate
- £800,000–£1,200,000 hammer ≈ $1,053,649–$1,580,474
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Contemporary Art Evening Auction, London · 5 October 2017
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4600497
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Cecily Brown, The Circus Animals' Desertion. Sotheby's, 5 Oct 2017, lot 7. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4600497.
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Cecily Brown, The Circus Animals' Desertion. Sotheby's, 5 Oct 2017, lot 7. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4600497.
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From the same sale Contemporary Art Evening Auction · Oct 2017
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled (Baum 9) | Sigmar Polke | £800,000–£1,200,000 | |
| Homage to the Square | Josef Albers | £300,000–£400,000 | |
| Untitled | Wade Guyton | £350,000–£450,000 | |
| Tempête en Mer Du Nord, Étude No. 3 | Thierry De Cordier | £250,000–£350,000 | |
| Bronze | Jean-Michel Basquiat | £5,000,000–£7,000,000 | |
| The Fourteenth V.N. Painting | David Hockney | £480,000–£650,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cecily Brown | twenty million sweethearts | $1,493,111 | Sotheby's, Feb 2020 | |
| Cecily Brown | Beautiful Not Realistic | Sotheby's, Oct 2022 | ||
| Cecily Brown | cecily brown | l.c.v. | Sotheby's, Oct 2020 | ||
| Cecily Brown | Things Could Be Different, But They're Not | Christie's, Mar 2025 | ||
| Cecily Brown | Luck Just Kissed You Hello | Phillips, Mar 2024 | ||
| Cecily Brown | The Fox and Geese | Christie's, May 2024 | ||
| Cecily Brown | sock monkey | Sotheby's, Oct 2018 | ||
| Cecily Brown | Twice Told Tales II | Sotheby's, May 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.