Artworks Rushed to Auctions as Houses Expect Heated Sales

Art collectors opening their mailboxes this month will find auction
catalogs bursting with famous images. There is Brancusi's sculpture
"The Kiss," shown recently at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; a
Modigliani portrait so loved by its owner that she has repeatedly
refused to lend it for any museum exhibitions; "0 Through 9," a 1961
Jasper Johns drawing from one of the artist's best-known series; and
Andy Warhol's 1963 Pop image of race riots in Birmingham, Ala.

Sensing that a heated market may soon reach its peak, collectors have
consigned hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of artworks for the
November sales at New York's auction houses. Sotheby's and Christie's
say the estimated sales totals are the highest in nearly 15 years.

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