The Phillips team appeared joyous with the results of its modern and contemporary art evening sale, which got underway at the respectable time of 5pm on Tuesday. The auction house achieved $115.2 million against an estimate of $84.2 million—its highest presale estimate since the frothy days of 2022. All 40 lots found buyers, with 2 works, by Richard Prince and Albert Oehlen, withdrawn before the sale.

This sale total was almost double November’s $61.2 million for 31 lots (not including the dinosaur fossils it offered), and more than double the $52 million for 36 lots in May 2025. Looking at it another way, the sale’s average lot value, $2.9 million, is more than double the $1.4 million average lot value from last May.