Christie's New York achieves highest total for an American art auction

The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Art of the Americas Evening Sale totaled $106,883,500 with seven artist records established. To date, the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller has totaled $765,384,844, and already has established the highest total achieved for any private collection offered at auction during the first night of the sale week. Thus far, 14 artist records have been set within the collection along with additional decorative arts records. The top lot of the sale was Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XIX, which sold for $14.2 million and formerly resided in David Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan office.Will Haydock, Head of American Art, remarks: “The American art from the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller represents one of the best single owner collections to come to market and this evening collectors responded accordingly