but isn't it a bit of apples and oranges unless you show a similar mix of items at this auction.
My gut says this one was about equal to previous ones, but I didn't do any analysis of top results.
Totally agree.
In the Dracula auction, the top four items combined to sell for $1,271,480 meaning everything else brought in $1,572,303
In the Casablanca auction, the top ten lots combined grossed $1,252,360 so the rest combined brought $1,554,575
In the Invisible Man auction the top ten went for $835,305, the rest bringing $1,500,369
In the current auction the top ten brought $404,268, so the rest still brought $1,527,799
Outside of the top ten, these numbers are all remarkably consistent. To me that speaks to the overall health of the market that they could sell 900 items for $1.5 million (in the middle of this meltdown as T would put it).
It's easy to say that because only one poster sold for over $100,000 this auction (a price that Bruce has never achieved even with his millions of sales) that the sky is falling, but Heritage's current auction showed strength across pretty much all genres.
The first public $100,000 poster sale happened 25 years ago (A Frankenstein one-sheet), since then just over 40 pieces have reported being sold for that or more - and Heritage sold 25% of them in the past year and a remarkable 34 of them overall.