christies morning

1) wessleman keeps going up in price, from auction to auction, a charcoal drawing from the great aemrican nudes went for 880k.
2) add Indianna to that list of 2nd tier popists.
3) lots of mid priced debuffet
4) de kooning still confuses me, with some drawings selling above market, and some work bought in, i think he is much more in flux then he ever has been before
5) lewis upward pattern continus
6) a really garish stella sqaure peice, and a bright green albers both sold high, which might make my simple chromophobic arguement moot.
7) i think that warhols gun and knives sieres from the 80s are one of v. few places where you might still get a bargin for him. (others include rosarch and his body building work, from about the same period)
8) the busier and more chaotic twomblies continue to sell better then the simpler ones.
9) i think there was only one hockney, in teh last 4 auctions, a nice but not fantastic landscape, which seems strange to me.
10) god, i love mel ramos, and w. wesselman prices eeking up into bluechip status, he might be the next craze
11) the photo realists continue to eek there way up into something resembling respectablity, i wonder who the next lost school will be