2000
2000 Celebration and Joy with Jeff Koons
2013 SOLD 58 M$ including premium
The series of the "Celebrations" was designed by Jeff Koons in 1994. The first themes, in five monochrome sculptures each made in a different color, cover universal symbols. Their monumental size invites to exhibition in prestigious locations. The perfect mirror of the surface is a technical feat.
Two specimens of the Balloon Flower were auctioned : £ 12.9 million including premium for the magenta by Christie's on 30 June 2008, $ 16.9 million including premium for the blue on 10 November 2010 also by Christie's.
Same as for the Balloon Flower, the Balloon Dog is an assembly of rounded shapes that reflect their environment in all directions. Looking more like a toy than like the animal that could serve as a model, it appears as a symbol of happy childhood. The bright orange specimen is joyful.
Koons also wanted this series to be a break from traditional art and designated his Balloon Dog as a Trojan horse. Almost twenty years later, the prestige of the series shows that he was right.
Balloon Dog (Orange) is estimated $ 35M for sale by Christie 's in New York on November 12. Measuring 307 x 363 x 114 cm, this sculpture was completed in 2000.
I invite you to watch the video shared by Christie's.
POST SALE COMMENT
This remarkably cheerful artwork was introduced by Christie's as an icon of contemporary art. It was sold for $ 58M including premium.
Two specimens of the Balloon Flower were auctioned : £ 12.9 million including premium for the magenta by Christie's on 30 June 2008, $ 16.9 million including premium for the blue on 10 November 2010 also by Christie's.
Same as for the Balloon Flower, the Balloon Dog is an assembly of rounded shapes that reflect their environment in all directions. Looking more like a toy than like the animal that could serve as a model, it appears as a symbol of happy childhood. The bright orange specimen is joyful.
Koons also wanted this series to be a break from traditional art and designated his Balloon Dog as a Trojan horse. Almost twenty years later, the prestige of the series shows that he was right.
Balloon Dog (Orange) is estimated $ 35M for sale by Christie 's in New York on November 12. Measuring 307 x 363 x 114 cm, this sculpture was completed in 2000.
I invite you to watch the video shared by Christie's.
POST SALE COMMENT
This remarkably cheerful artwork was introduced by Christie's as an icon of contemporary art. It was sold for $ 58M including premium.
2000 Girls by Yoshitomo Nara
1
Knife behind Back
2019 SOLD for HK$ 196M by Sotheby's
2000 is the transition year in the life and career of Yoshitomo Nara who returns to Japan after twelve years in Germany. He did not originally want his art to be political. Yet it was in that year, inspired by his recent visit at Auschwitz. He now considers that his characters can raise their voices to demand that all wars be avoided.
The children of that era are already the Millennials, who desire to influence the evolution of the world against dangers which they cannot analyze and even less control. They feel concerned and do not appreciate how much they are fragile, but they are not dangerous.
The titles in the 2000 series of large size acrylic on canvas transcribe this imaginary fate facing these crazy wars operated by the adults : Last warrior subtitled The Unknown soldier, Missing in Action, The Little ambassador.
By chance this Japanese girl is contemporary with the invention of emoji. Tiny details change completely the meaning of a figure. This trend associated with the expression of a revolt powerfully increases two decades later the power of the 2000 Nara girl.
Knife behind back is one of the strongest messages, increased by a bird's eye view without a visible surrounding. The mouth is severe and stubborn. The right hand is hidden, justifying the interpretation of the title as a threat. This 234 x 208 cm acrylic on canvas was sold for HK $ 196M on October 6, 2019 by Sotheby's, lot 1142.
The suggestion of a hidden object is a fruitful idea which was only latent in the smaller Frog Girl, painted in Germany in 1998, where the child had exactly the same attitude in a left-right reverse position. In Knife, the dress has become an aggressive deep red and the mouth is resolutely hostile.
The character will soon lose her aggressiveness and smile friendly again. Featured in a flesh colored dress, Right hand in back, acrylic on a 180 cm circular canvas painted in 2002 and mounted on fiberglass, was sold for $ 2.17M by Sotheby's on November 17, 2017, lot 420.
The children of that era are already the Millennials, who desire to influence the evolution of the world against dangers which they cannot analyze and even less control. They feel concerned and do not appreciate how much they are fragile, but they are not dangerous.
The titles in the 2000 series of large size acrylic on canvas transcribe this imaginary fate facing these crazy wars operated by the adults : Last warrior subtitled The Unknown soldier, Missing in Action, The Little ambassador.
By chance this Japanese girl is contemporary with the invention of emoji. Tiny details change completely the meaning of a figure. This trend associated with the expression of a revolt powerfully increases two decades later the power of the 2000 Nara girl.
Knife behind back is one of the strongest messages, increased by a bird's eye view without a visible surrounding. The mouth is severe and stubborn. The right hand is hidden, justifying the interpretation of the title as a threat. This 234 x 208 cm acrylic on canvas was sold for HK $ 196M on October 6, 2019 by Sotheby's, lot 1142.
The suggestion of a hidden object is a fruitful idea which was only latent in the smaller Frog Girl, painted in Germany in 1998, where the child had exactly the same attitude in a left-right reverse position. In Knife, the dress has become an aggressive deep red and the mouth is resolutely hostile.
The character will soon lose her aggressiveness and smile friendly again. Featured in a flesh colored dress, Right hand in back, acrylic on a 180 cm circular canvas painted in 2002 and mounted on fiberglass, was sold for $ 2.17M by Sotheby's on November 17, 2017, lot 420.
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Missing in Action
2021 SOLD for HK$ 124M by Phillips in association with Poly
On May 28, 2017, Phillips sold at lot 11 for HK $ 21.7M the portrait of a little girl whose dual title is unambiguous in its condemnation of war : Last Warrior / The Unknown Soldier.
On a light background of great brightness the skin and dress are ethereal, contrasting with the mouth and eyes which express the message. The mouth is authoritarian and stubborn and the divergent strabismus does not invite to negotiation.
Last Warrior has a sequel that provides the key to the artist's hope. The child's attitude is almost identical with three exceptions : a hand appears to offer a single two-leaf seedling, the mouth loses its twist in favor of an expression of seriousness and the strabismus has been offset. Rightly titled The Little Ambassador, this acrylic on canvas 198 x 133 cm was sold for HK $ 24M by Sotheby's on October 2, 2016, lot 1040.
The wording Missing in Action has the same dramatic meaning as the Last Warrior. Painted in the same style also on 2000, this acrylic on canvas 165 x 150 cm was sold for £ 2M by Phillips on October 14, 2015, lot 9, and for HK $ 124M by Phillips in association with Poly on June 8, 2021, lot 17.
On a light background of great brightness the skin and dress are ethereal, contrasting with the mouth and eyes which express the message. The mouth is authoritarian and stubborn and the divergent strabismus does not invite to negotiation.
Last Warrior has a sequel that provides the key to the artist's hope. The child's attitude is almost identical with three exceptions : a hand appears to offer a single two-leaf seedling, the mouth loses its twist in favor of an expression of seriousness and the strabismus has been offset. Rightly titled The Little Ambassador, this acrylic on canvas 198 x 133 cm was sold for HK $ 24M by Sotheby's on October 2, 2016, lot 1040.
The wording Missing in Action has the same dramatic meaning as the Last Warrior. Painted in the same style also on 2000, this acrylic on canvas 165 x 150 cm was sold for £ 2M by Phillips on October 14, 2015, lot 9, and for HK $ 124M by Phillips in association with Poly on June 8, 2021, lot 17.
2000 Jeff Koons loves Flowers
2008 SOLD 12.9 M£ including premium
Jeff Koons loves flowers. I am not the only one to say it, this opinion is also available in the catalogue of Christie's, at the number 12 from the sale of June 30 in London. Accordingly, the artist expressed this view in 2003: "I have always enjoyed flowers."
Coming from a private collection of Dallas, here is a Balloon Flower (Magenta), dated 1995-2000, of towering dimensions (340 x 285 x 260 cm). The photo in the catalog shows this thing simply laying on water in a park. The work is currently visible in St. James's Square, until the day before the sale.
Jeff Koons does not enjoy flowers only. He also enjoys that his main works display symbolic forms unequivocally recognizable by fans of all countries. He certainly also loves money, and everyone knows that monumental works reach the highest prices by far. These are indeed even higher when their colors are bright to be violent, and when their surface is shiny.
He performs this type of work in several copies, each in a different single color.
On 14 November last year, Sotheby's has sold for $ 23.5 million fees included a Hanging Heart Magenta / Gold, a work of 296 x 216 x 102 cm executed in five versions and dated 1994-2006 in chromium stainless steel covered with a transparent colored coating. Despite its huge dimensions, that heart is designed to be hanged, and it is this lightness of a monster that had been admired by specialists of Sotheby's, in a remarkable video that preceded the sale. The heart is decorated with gilded brass knots that look a bit like a gift package. As a coincidence, Balloon Flower is made of similar materials and also in five colors.
The day before, November 13, 2007, Christie's had sold for $ 11.8 million fees included a Diamond (Blue) of similar dates and materials, measuring 198 x 220 x 220 cm.
Unless a violent speculative effect, our Balloon Flower, static and less embellished, will not reach the price of Hanging Heart. The catalogue does not provide estimate, but it was sufficient to open the press release of June 10 to know that it is expected in the region of £ 12 million. We may find curious that this work of an American artist belonging to an American owner comes in London for being sold. I am told that London is closer to the Russian buyers than New York.
Christie's has provided a guarantee to the seller.
POST SALE COMMENT
Those who say that the market for contemporary art is unpredictable are wrong. Our Balloon Flower was sold £ 12.9 million charge included. This result is extremely close to the confidential estimate that I had the pleasure to tell you!
There is a much more interesting fact: Christie's says that this price is $ 25.6 million. In the 10% range, this price is the same as the Hanging Heart. I had shown above that these two works had many common features.
Coming from a private collection of Dallas, here is a Balloon Flower (Magenta), dated 1995-2000, of towering dimensions (340 x 285 x 260 cm). The photo in the catalog shows this thing simply laying on water in a park. The work is currently visible in St. James's Square, until the day before the sale.
Jeff Koons does not enjoy flowers only. He also enjoys that his main works display symbolic forms unequivocally recognizable by fans of all countries. He certainly also loves money, and everyone knows that monumental works reach the highest prices by far. These are indeed even higher when their colors are bright to be violent, and when their surface is shiny.
He performs this type of work in several copies, each in a different single color.
On 14 November last year, Sotheby's has sold for $ 23.5 million fees included a Hanging Heart Magenta / Gold, a work of 296 x 216 x 102 cm executed in five versions and dated 1994-2006 in chromium stainless steel covered with a transparent colored coating. Despite its huge dimensions, that heart is designed to be hanged, and it is this lightness of a monster that had been admired by specialists of Sotheby's, in a remarkable video that preceded the sale. The heart is decorated with gilded brass knots that look a bit like a gift package. As a coincidence, Balloon Flower is made of similar materials and also in five colors.
The day before, November 13, 2007, Christie's had sold for $ 11.8 million fees included a Diamond (Blue) of similar dates and materials, measuring 198 x 220 x 220 cm.
Unless a violent speculative effect, our Balloon Flower, static and less embellished, will not reach the price of Hanging Heart. The catalogue does not provide estimate, but it was sufficient to open the press release of June 10 to know that it is expected in the region of £ 12 million. We may find curious that this work of an American artist belonging to an American owner comes in London for being sold. I am told that London is closer to the Russian buyers than New York.
Christie's has provided a guarantee to the seller.
POST SALE COMMENT
Those who say that the market for contemporary art is unpredictable are wrong. Our Balloon Flower was sold £ 12.9 million charge included. This result is extremely close to the confidential estimate that I had the pleasure to tell you!
There is a much more interesting fact: Christie's says that this price is $ 25.6 million. In the 10% range, this price is the same as the Hanging Heart. I had shown above that these two works had many common features.
1999-2000/2001 Elements (Hydra) by Brice Marden
2015 SOLD for $ 9.2M including premium by Phillips
Link to catalogue.
2000 The African American Dream
2013 SOLD 8 M$ including premium
David Hammons was a student at the time of the struggles that culminated in 1968 with the prohibition of racial discrimination in the United States. He will forever be a social activist.
He provides his artistic message by assembling various objects ranging from foil to trash. He does not accept the established bourgeois system of art galleries, preferring the street and not hesitating to provoke happenings.
Basketball is one of his recurring themes. He hates basketball because it seems to offer to the teenagers an outlet to fame and wealth that, for almost all of them, is only an illusion.
In 2000, Hammons executed three assemblies where the basketball panel is reused as a support for a suite of chandeliers, a luxury furnishing out of our time and socially incongruous.
One of these assemblies of fake luxury, 196 x 221 x 64 cm, illuminated by light bulbs within the chandeliers, is estimated $ 5M, for sale by Phillips in New York on November 11.
I invite you to play the video shared by the auction house on Vimeo.
POST SALE COMMENT
Very good price, $ 8M including premium, in the region of the higher estimate. I had not seen a similar artwork in auction databases and the result was not a foregone conclusion, especially for an artist out of the system.
He provides his artistic message by assembling various objects ranging from foil to trash. He does not accept the established bourgeois system of art galleries, preferring the street and not hesitating to provoke happenings.
Basketball is one of his recurring themes. He hates basketball because it seems to offer to the teenagers an outlet to fame and wealth that, for almost all of them, is only an illusion.
In 2000, Hammons executed three assemblies where the basketball panel is reused as a support for a suite of chandeliers, a luxury furnishing out of our time and socially incongruous.
One of these assemblies of fake luxury, 196 x 221 x 64 cm, illuminated by light bulbs within the chandeliers, is estimated $ 5M, for sale by Phillips in New York on November 11.
I invite you to play the video shared by the auction house on Vimeo.
POST SALE COMMENT
Very good price, $ 8M including premium, in the region of the higher estimate. I had not seen a similar artwork in auction databases and the result was not a foregone conclusion, especially for an artist out of the system.
2000 The Gate by Hockney
2016 SOLD for $ 7M including premium by Phillips
Link to catalogue.
2000 The Void by Damien Hirst
2017 SOLD for $ 5.9M by Phillips
During his studies Damien Hirst works temporarily in a mortuary. He is shocked by the transition between life and death. As an artist he paradoxically devotes his work to this phenomenon which he does not understand. The titles of his artworks insinuate around this theme.
The drug accompanies this transition and becomes its symbol. As early as 1989, aged 24, he realizes some cabinet installations filled with boxes and bottles. One of them is entitled God.
A trigger happens ten years later during a night of insomnia, according to him. He keeps on shelves between a glass window and a mirror wall a high quantity of painted plaster pills, making sure that they are all different in shape, size or color. Each pill is positioned individually, well separated from the others by regular intervals, like never before a doctor or a patient would have think for storing a medicine.
His first pill cabinets are monumental, bringing to the artist the notion of unlimited space that was lacking in his mystical quest. The effect of the individual pill, which is his atom or his quantum, will remain a mystery. Perhaps there is none : death is inevitable.
Hirst is not Thomas Aquinas : his pills do not answer an everlasting question that is perhaps only poorly expressed. Yet along his career he will continue to create works on this theme, smaller and less careful in the details for saving time.
On May 18 in New York, Phillips sells one of the earliest pill cabinets, lot 8 estimated $ 5M. Made in 2000, it is gigantic: 236 x 470 x 11 cm. It is titled The Void.
Lullaby Winter, 72 x 108 x 4 cm, made in 2002, was sold for $ 7.4M including premium by Christie's on May 16, 2007. Fragments of Paradise, 183 x 276 x 10 cm, made in 2008, was sold for £ 5.2M including premium by Sotheby's on September 15, 2008 in the auction specially curated with Hirst under the title Beautiful inside my head forever.
Please watch the video shared by Phillips.
The drug accompanies this transition and becomes its symbol. As early as 1989, aged 24, he realizes some cabinet installations filled with boxes and bottles. One of them is entitled God.
A trigger happens ten years later during a night of insomnia, according to him. He keeps on shelves between a glass window and a mirror wall a high quantity of painted plaster pills, making sure that they are all different in shape, size or color. Each pill is positioned individually, well separated from the others by regular intervals, like never before a doctor or a patient would have think for storing a medicine.
His first pill cabinets are monumental, bringing to the artist the notion of unlimited space that was lacking in his mystical quest. The effect of the individual pill, which is his atom or his quantum, will remain a mystery. Perhaps there is none : death is inevitable.
Hirst is not Thomas Aquinas : his pills do not answer an everlasting question that is perhaps only poorly expressed. Yet along his career he will continue to create works on this theme, smaller and less careful in the details for saving time.
On May 18 in New York, Phillips sells one of the earliest pill cabinets, lot 8 estimated $ 5M. Made in 2000, it is gigantic: 236 x 470 x 11 cm. It is titled The Void.
Lullaby Winter, 72 x 108 x 4 cm, made in 2002, was sold for $ 7.4M including premium by Christie's on May 16, 2007. Fragments of Paradise, 183 x 276 x 10 cm, made in 2008, was sold for £ 5.2M including premium by Sotheby's on September 15, 2008 in the auction specially curated with Hirst under the title Beautiful inside my head forever.
Please watch the video shared by Phillips.
2000 The Diaphanous Happiness of Agnes Martin
2015 SOLD for £ 2.84M including premium
Influenced by Zen, Agnes Martin finds joy in the contemplation of the desert in Taos. She shares it through her paintings made of grids of equidistant lines. The surface appearance, plain but not strictly monochrome, expresses her vision of the dune, the beach or the mountain. She wraps the viewer in her art and readily admits that her work belongs to abstract expressionism.
Agnes Martin restarted her work in her later life with another pattern. The canvas is prepared with a gesso that will bring the luminosity. The horizontal bands drawn freehand with pencil are replacing the grid and define alternative areas of diaphanous colors, mostly pink and blue.
It is a rare case of an artist who was able to go up to the ultimate in her search and expression of happiness. Although her technique is different, she is close to the art of Gaitonde who had himself been influenced by Rothko.
The titles now express feelings. Loving love, 152 x 152 cm, painted in Taos in 2000 when the artist was 88 years old, was sold for £ 2.1 million including premium by Christie's on July 1, 2014. The stripes are of uniform width, except that the two central ones are blue, accentuating the impression of symmetry.
An untitled work made in the same year or maybe the year before in the same format is estimated £ 2.5M for sale by Sotheby's in London on October 15, lot 7. The pink stripes are twice wider than the blue.
I invite you to watch the video shared by Sotheby's.
Agnes Martin restarted her work in her later life with another pattern. The canvas is prepared with a gesso that will bring the luminosity. The horizontal bands drawn freehand with pencil are replacing the grid and define alternative areas of diaphanous colors, mostly pink and blue.
It is a rare case of an artist who was able to go up to the ultimate in her search and expression of happiness. Although her technique is different, she is close to the art of Gaitonde who had himself been influenced by Rothko.
The titles now express feelings. Loving love, 152 x 152 cm, painted in Taos in 2000 when the artist was 88 years old, was sold for £ 2.1 million including premium by Christie's on July 1, 2014. The stripes are of uniform width, except that the two central ones are blue, accentuating the impression of symmetry.
An untitled work made in the same year or maybe the year before in the same format is estimated £ 2.5M for sale by Sotheby's in London on October 15, lot 7. The pink stripes are twice wider than the blue.
I invite you to watch the video shared by Sotheby's.
2000 Cowboy by Richard Prince
2016 SOLD for $ 3.5M by Christie's
Around 1981, Richard Prince sees the Marlboro Man in all magazines. The cowboy wandering with cattle in the endless deserts of the Wild West was a good choice for an advertising campaign as the mirror of a romantic American masculinity enhanced by the Hollywood glamor.
When Marlboro give up this decade long advertisement campaign due to the antismoking virulence, Prince goes on. In 1992 he begins publishing his cowboys in Cibachrome or Ektacolor color prints in very large size usually limited to two prints plus an artist's proof. Around 2000 the preparation of the images by digital techniques enables new artistic possibilities.
Prince appropriates the best color photographs of cowboys, whether or not already used by Marlboro. What matters is to display the beautiful picture of a typical cowboy with his Stetson, vest and spurs.
When the characters and their horses are busy in their signature occupations, the image is highly appealing. A composite group of five silhouettes preparing their day in the shadow of a bright orange sunrise has become such a popular image.
This Untitled (Cowboy) was edited in 2000 in two copies and one artist's proof in Ektacolor 122 x 195 cm. The artist's proof was sold by Christie's on May 10, 2016 for $ 3.5M from a lower estimate of $ 2.5M, lot 57 B.
The Ektacolor print numbered 1/2 was sold by Sotheby's on May 13, 2014 for $ 3.1M from a lower estimate of $ 1M, lot 3.
When Marlboro give up this decade long advertisement campaign due to the antismoking virulence, Prince goes on. In 1992 he begins publishing his cowboys in Cibachrome or Ektacolor color prints in very large size usually limited to two prints plus an artist's proof. Around 2000 the preparation of the images by digital techniques enables new artistic possibilities.
Prince appropriates the best color photographs of cowboys, whether or not already used by Marlboro. What matters is to display the beautiful picture of a typical cowboy with his Stetson, vest and spurs.
When the characters and their horses are busy in their signature occupations, the image is highly appealing. A composite group of five silhouettes preparing their day in the shadow of a bright orange sunrise has become such a popular image.
This Untitled (Cowboy) was edited in 2000 in two copies and one artist's proof in Ektacolor 122 x 195 cm. The artist's proof was sold by Christie's on May 10, 2016 for $ 3.5M from a lower estimate of $ 2.5M, lot 57 B.
The Ektacolor print numbered 1/2 was sold by Sotheby's on May 13, 2014 for $ 3.1M from a lower estimate of $ 1M, lot 3.
2000 The Fall of the Fat Ox
2018 SOLD for INR 20 crores including premium (worth US$ 3.2M)
An untitled canvas 183 x 152 cm painted by Tyeb Mehta in 2000 was sold for $ 2.3M including premium by Christie's on March 18, 2014, lot 230. It had been discussed in this column before the sale.
It is estimated INR 14 crores worth US $ 2.26M by AstaGuru online from Mumbai, lot 41 closing on March 27. Here is the link to the website of the auction house.
This artwork brings together the two preferred themes of the artist, the bull and the fall.
Disgusted in his youth by the death of oxen in the slaughterhouses, Mehta takes the bovine as the symbol of the vanity of the mankind, from the tortured innocence to the most crazy violence for which the beast takes the features of the demon-buffalo Mahishasura in fight with Durga.
More recent in his art the theme of the fall appears in the late 1980s. A bull or bird is tightly entwined with a human being in a hopeless weightlessness.
In the painting coming for sale the bovine is fat and strangely peaceful, upturned body and four legs upwards. It has no eyes, as blind as the cut head placed in front of Durga in other compositions. A leg and the tail are interchanged. Two hands coming out from below are the only human attributes in this almost invisible embrace.
In this wide range of behaviors the fate for butchery becomes dominant at the end of the artist's career. A diptych made in 2005/2007 displays in each 198 x 152 cm element the silhouette of a beef cut in three pieces. It was sold for $ 2.8M including premium by Christie's on March 23, 2011.
It is estimated INR 14 crores worth US $ 2.26M by AstaGuru online from Mumbai, lot 41 closing on March 27. Here is the link to the website of the auction house.
This artwork brings together the two preferred themes of the artist, the bull and the fall.
Disgusted in his youth by the death of oxen in the slaughterhouses, Mehta takes the bovine as the symbol of the vanity of the mankind, from the tortured innocence to the most crazy violence for which the beast takes the features of the demon-buffalo Mahishasura in fight with Durga.
More recent in his art the theme of the fall appears in the late 1980s. A bull or bird is tightly entwined with a human being in a hopeless weightlessness.
In the painting coming for sale the bovine is fat and strangely peaceful, upturned body and four legs upwards. It has no eyes, as blind as the cut head placed in front of Durga in other compositions. A leg and the tail are interchanged. Two hands coming out from below are the only human attributes in this almost invisible embrace.
In this wide range of behaviors the fate for butchery becomes dominant at the end of the artist's career. A diptych made in 2005/2007 displays in each 198 x 152 cm element the silhouette of a beef cut in three pieces. It was sold for $ 2.8M including premium by Christie's on March 23, 2011.
2000 Rookie Ticket Card of Tom Brady
2021 SOLD for $ 3.1M by Lelands
The 2000 NFL Draft selects 254 players in 7 rounds. Tom Brady is the 199th, in the 6th round. In his college career with the Michigan Wolverines, he had some issues to become a titular. His specialty was scoring points late in the game, but his athleticism definitely does not thrill the recruiters. He joins the New England Patriots.
The quarterback won his first Super Bowl in 2002. With his seventh Super Bowl won on February 7, 2021 for the year 2020 at the age of 43, he is the most successful player in the history of American football.
Since 1998 the Playoff Contenders Championship Rookie Ticket series has been the high end for American football autographed cards. It is published by Playoff Corporation which bought out Donruss but was unable to acquire a franchise in more lucrative sports.
The 2000 rookie ticket card of Tom Brady is serialized between 1 and 100. As of April 2021, about 75 units have been graded by BGS including seven Mint 9 and none higher. A cheaper non ticket autographed card with the same image has also been edited.
On December 7, 2020, the 025/100 graded 8.5 by BGS was sold for $ 240K by Sotheby's and Goldin, lot 30. The first card to reach the million mark range was in March 2021 in a private sale brokered by PWCC. It is graded NM-MT 8 by BGS. Millionaire auction results from April and May 2021 apply to cards graded 8 or better by BGS with an autograph graded 9 or 10.
Lelands sold the 008/100 for $ 3.1M on June 4, 2021, lot 1. It is one of the seven Mint 9. Its sub-grades are Centering 9.5, Edges 9, Corners 8.5 and Surface 9. The signature is a perfect 10.
The quarterback won his first Super Bowl in 2002. With his seventh Super Bowl won on February 7, 2021 for the year 2020 at the age of 43, he is the most successful player in the history of American football.
Since 1998 the Playoff Contenders Championship Rookie Ticket series has been the high end for American football autographed cards. It is published by Playoff Corporation which bought out Donruss but was unable to acquire a franchise in more lucrative sports.
The 2000 rookie ticket card of Tom Brady is serialized between 1 and 100. As of April 2021, about 75 units have been graded by BGS including seven Mint 9 and none higher. A cheaper non ticket autographed card with the same image has also been edited.
On December 7, 2020, the 025/100 graded 8.5 by BGS was sold for $ 240K by Sotheby's and Goldin, lot 30. The first card to reach the million mark range was in March 2021 in a private sale brokered by PWCC. It is graded NM-MT 8 by BGS. Millionaire auction results from April and May 2021 apply to cards graded 8 or better by BGS with an autograph graded 9 or 10.
Lelands sold the 008/100 for $ 3.1M on June 4, 2021, lot 1. It is one of the seven Mint 9. Its sub-grades are Centering 9.5, Edges 9, Corners 8.5 and Surface 9. The signature is a perfect 10.
