The US art season ended with a record-breaking salestotal of $412m (£259.9m) for Christie's, with records set for works by 11artists.Jeff Koonssculpture Tulip, which graced New York's Rockefeller Center plaza, achieved anartist record of $33.7m (£21.2m).
New recordswere also set for Franz Kline and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Christie'sclaimed the $412m figure was the most successful sale of post-war andcontemporary art in history.
"Thistruly was an extraordinary sale," said Jussi Pylkkanen, president ofChristie's Europe, Middle East and Russia.
"Clearlythere's an enormous amount of energy in the post-war and contemporary market.It's highly likely that we'll see a continuation of records being broken."
Smashing record
The previousday, rival auction house Sotheby's had staged its most successful auction inits history, taking $375m (£236m).
Koons' Tulipbecame the second highest figure paid for a living artist, following on fromGerhard Richter's 1994 painting Abstraktes Bild, which sold in October.
Tulip wascreated between 1995-2004 and is one of five versions of the work.
Kline's canvas,featuring broad black strokes, sold for $40.4m (£25.4m), smashing the previous$9.3m (£5.8m) record for his work.
The Christie'ssale also included Andy Warhol's Statue of Liberty, which sold for $43.7m (£27.5m).
Basquiat'suntitled work from 1981 sold for $26.4m (£16.6m), beating the artist's previousrecord of $20.1m (£12.6m), which was only set in June.
Basquiatstarted out as a graffiti artist before finding fame as a contemporary artist.He died of a heroin overdose in 1988 at the age of 27.
Rothko's RedStrip sold for $23.4m (£14.7m), just a day after large-scale masterpiece No 1(Royal Red and Blue) sold for $75.1m (£47.2m) at Sotheby's.
Source: BBC
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