Sotheby’s capped the close of a two-7 days operate of practically nightly auctions in New York with a double-header tonight, May well 19: the “Now” sale adopted by its marquee modern day artwork evening sale, which altogether reeled in $283.4 million, bringing the auction house’s seasonal auction whole to a file $1 billion. The power in the room was palpable. As shortly as auctioneer Michael Macaulay opened up the 1st lot, Anna Weyant’s Slipping Female (2020), the rate at which bids arrived in produced the sale sense extra akin to a livestock auction than one of great art. Naturally, Falling Female set a new history for the 27-12 months-outdated artist at $1.6 million…