Auction links:

• JEFF KOONS - Balloon Monkey (Blue)

  • Christie's, 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale, Lot 13

  • Estimate: GBP 6,500,000 – GBP 10,000,000

• DAVID HOCKNEY - L'Arbois, Sainte-Maxime

  • Sotheby's, Contemporary Evening Auction, Lot 4

  • Estimate: 7,000,000 - 10,000,000 GBP

This market resolves to the artwork that sells for more at auction, according to the final sale price listed on the website.

Resolution details

• If either lot is withdrawn before auction, this resolves N/A. If either fails to sell at auction, that counts as selling for $0. Exact ties (including $0) resolve to 50% each.

• It resolves based on the final sale price listed on the website.

  • Sotheby's example: Magnificent unmounted diamond, "Lot Sold

    3,871,500 CHF".

  • Christie's example: Gentileschi painting, "Price realised

    USD 982,800".

• Note that the final listed sale price typically includes the buyer's premium (and potentially other fees).

JEFF KOONS - Balloon Monkey (Blue)

Amajestic vision seven years in the making, Balloon Monkey (Blue) (2006-2013) sees Jeff Koons’s sculptural practice reach extraordinary new heights of formal splendour, technical achievement and sheer, awe-inspiring impact. Its seductive form, monumental scale and reflective, opulently coloured surface—all precision-crafted to seemingly impossible levels of flawlessness and finish—capture the essence of his work, which employs the iconography of childhood innocence to expose the deep drives of desire and joy that animate our relationship with art. (Lot essay)

DAVID HOCKNEY - L'Arbois, Sainte-Maxime

Executed at a critical moment in the development of David Hockney’s remarkable career, L’Arbois, Sainte-Maxime of 1968 is a work of pivotal significance that brilliantly embodies the artist’s masterful synthesis of photography, painting, and drawing. The present work is an impressively scaled example of Hockney’s celebrated series of pictures inspired by the South of France, exquisitely rendering the landscape and architecture of the French Riviera in brilliant colour. (Lot essay)