Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Expanding Color Painting, 1987
Oil · Canvas
Phillips · Feb 29, 2016$149,000 ≈ £107,535 ≈ €136,848Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Madame de Sade #4
Max Coyer (American, 1954–1988) · 1984
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $6,000 – $8,000 (≈ £4,330 – £5,774) (≈ €5,511 – €7,348)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 42 x 36 in. (106.7 x 91.4 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- New Now Day Sale (NY010116)
- Date
- February 29, 2016
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 273
- Estimate
- $6,000 – $8,000 (≈ £4,330 – £5,774) (≈ €5,511 – €7,348)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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