Lot 26, "Ocean Park #126," by Diebenkorn, oil on canvas, 93 by 81 inches, 1984

Lot 31, "Untitled," by Diebenkorn, gouache, charcoal and pasted paper on joined paper, 33 by 23 inches, 1986

Lot 39, "Lettre sur les sourds et muets I," by Frank Stella, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 141 inches square, 1974

Lot 11, "Untitled," by Joan Mitchell, oil on canvas, 81 1/4 by 108 1/2 inches, 1958

Lot 11 is a fine and large, 1958 oil on canvas by Joan Mitchell (1925-1992).  It measures 81 1/4 by 108 1/2 inches.  It was included in a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art,  the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Des Moines Art Center in 2002-4.  It has an estimate of $7,000,000 to $9,000,000.  It sold for $9,087,500.

Lot 18, "Nude and Forms," by George Condo, oil on canvas, 80 by 72 inches, 2014

Lot 18 is a fine large oil on canvas by George Condo (b. 1957) entitled "Nude and Forms."  It measures 80 by 72 inches and was painted in 2014.  The catalogue entry references the artist's interest in Cubism.  The lot has an estimate of $2,200,000 to $2,800,000.  It sold for $6,162,500.

Lot 9, "Double Elvis (Ferus Type)," by Andy Warhol, silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen,  81 3/4 by 48 inches, 1963

Lot 9, "Double Elvis (Ferus type)," is a large silkscreen ink and spay paint on linen by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) that was painted in 1963.  It measures 81 3/4 by 48 inches.

The following commentary is from Michele Leight's review at thecityreview,com of the May 9, 2012 auction at Sotheby's New York in which this lot appeared:

"It would be hard to overstate the impact of Elvis - globally - and brilliant Andy Warhol got that. The skinny jean silhouette that Elvis emphasised with his incredible hip swiveling and gyrating while he sang not only catapulted him to the top of the charts, but also sent every teenager on the planet scrambling to find jeans just like his. And then there were the rhinestone encrusted shirts, cowboy boots and that amazing lop-sided smile! He was a style and a Pop icon, impossibly handsome, and that "look" persists in every nook and cranny in the world, even today - but no one can really look like him. Then there was the ethereal voice, that beautiful voice. What a trailblazer Elvis was, captured in superb by Andy Warhol in Lot 27, "Double Elvis (Ferus Type)," executed in 1963:

"(Thus) in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original supestar artist, 'Double Elvis' is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and a lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as a metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age..." (Sotheby's catalogue for this sale)."

At this auction, the lot has an estimate on request. It sold for $37,042,500.

Lot 54, "You Must Suffer If You Want to Be Beautiful," by Kerry James Marshall, acrylic, graphite, crayon, paper collage and printed paper collage on canvas, 76 by 55 7/8 inches, 1991

Lot 54 is a large work by Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955) who the previous night at Sotheby's New York set an auction record for a work for an Afro-American artist when his painting, "Past Times," sold for more than $21 million, more than four times the artist's previous auction record.  This lot, which is entitled "You Must Suffer If Your Want to be Beautiful" has an estimate of $2,000,000 to $3,000,000.  It sold for $2,922,500.  It meausres 76 byt 55 7/8 inches and was painted in 1991.