The art collection of Frank Dunphy, the mentor and business-manager of Damien Hirst, has been sold for £10.1m ($13.1m) by Sotheby's in London. Pre-sale estimates had been between £5.2 and £7.3m. Around 92% of the 200 pieces sold of the Dunphys collection, the joint company of Frank and Lorna Dunphy. Highlights included the sale of Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1961) by Lucio Fontana for £1.2m, Andy Warhol's Dollar Sign (1982) for £730,000, and Damien Hirst's gift to the Dunphys on their retirement, N-Chloroacetyl-L-Phenylalanine Crystalline (1997), which sold for £358,000. Dunphy advised artists like Tracey Emin and Angus Fairhurst, alongside Hirst.
The art collection of Frank Dunphy, the mentor and business-manager of Damien Hirst, has been sold for £10.1m ($13.1m) by Sotheby's in London. Pre-sale estimates had been between £5.2 and £7.3m. Around 92% of the 200 pieces sold of the Yellow Ball collection, the joint company of Frank and Lorna Dunphy. Highlights included the sale of Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1961) by Lucio Fontana for £1.2m, Andy Warhol's Dollar Sign (1982) for £730,000, and Damien Hirst's gift to the Dunphys on their retirement, N-Chloroacetyl-L-Phenylalanine Crystalline (1997), which sold for £358,000. Dunphy advised artists like Tracey Emin and Angus Fairhurst, alongside Hirst.