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Auction result
Study for Race Car Crash
Robert Longo (American, b. 1953) · 2012
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $30,000 – $40,000 (≈ £28,313 – £37,750) (≈ €31,364 – €41,819)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
Auction history of this work: offered 3 times ↓
- Medium
- Drawing (ink) · Works on paper all drawing results →As published: “ink and charcoal on vellum”
- Support
- Other support
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed, titled and dated "STUDY FOR RACE CAR CRASH Robert Longo 2012" lower edge
- Category
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- sheet 13 1/2 x 20 in. (34.3 x 50.8 cm.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- New Now (NY010622)
- Date
- September 28, 2022
- Location
- New York, United States
- Lot
- 170
- Estimate
- $30,000 – $40,000 (≈ £28,313 – £37,750) (≈ €31,364 – €41,819)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered 3 times between 2014 and 2024 · sold 2 · bought in / unsold 1
Catalogue details differ between appearances (dimensions). Houses often re-measure, translate or re-catalogue a work; compare the entries below.
May 16, 2014 · Phillips
Contemporary Art Day Sale, lot 291
Sold $50,000Sign up to see · est. $30,000 – $40,000
As catalogued
Robert Longo, “Study for Race Car Crash”, 2012
ink and charcoal on vellum
sheet 13 1/2 x 20 in. (34.3 x 50.8 cm.)
Sep 28, 2022 · Phillips this result
New Now, lot 170
Bought in / unsold · est. $30,000 – $40,000
As catalogued
Robert Longo, “Study for Race Car Crash”, 2012
ink and charcoal on vellum
sheet 13 1/2 x 20 in. (34.3 x 50.8 cm.)
Jul 17, 2024 · Phillips
Modern & Contemporary Art, lot 113
Sold $50,800 +2%Sign up to see · est. $15,000 – $20,000
As catalogued
Robert Longo, “Study for Race Car Crash”, 2012
ink and charcoal on vellum
image 13 5/8 x 20 1/8 in. (34.6 x 51.1 cm) sheet 19 x 23 7/8 in. (48.3 x 60.6 cm)
Appearances are linked when the photographs match and the size, medium and title agree (match confidence 88%). Casts and prints are linked only when the cast or impression number also matches. Price changes compare each sold price with the previous one (in USD at each sale’s exchange rate when the currencies differ). Details are shown as each house published them.
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