{
  "id": 14948609,
  "title": "De Kooning sets record but still falls flat at muted Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/de-kooning-sets-record-but-still-falls-flat-at-muted-sothebys",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-16T11:44:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Art Newspaper",
    "slug": "the-art-newspaper",
    "url": "https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/16/de-kooning-sets-record-but-still-falls-flat-at-muted-sothebys-contemporary-evening-sale"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Works by Yayoi Kusama and Gerhard Richter were also among those that failed to hit their presale estimates",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Artnet News",
        "title": "Sotheby’s London Contemporary Sale Notches $61M, Buoyed by $12.9M de Kooning",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/sothebys-london-contemporary-sale-notches-61m-buoyed-by-12-9m-de",
        "published": "2026-10-15T23:24:50.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}