At Sotheby's, one spot painting sold far below its estimate and a second was withdrawn, though at Christie's a spot painting fetched above its high estimate.
Mr. Putin's first canvas, above, fetched about $1.1 million at a charity auction in St . Petersburgon Saturday, Bloomberg News reported.
Cars that qualify in all of the above fetch record-breaking prices.
But Japan, which consumes well over half of the worldwide catch and where a single fish can fetch prices above $100,000, said Thursday that it would opt out of the ban if it was approved.
Sotheby's estimated that the 1970 canvas, "Tres Personajes" ("Three People"), above, could fetch $750,000 to $1 million, so the hammer price, $900,000, was considered a strong result.
When investors are euphoric for new issues, the stocks typically fetch prices well above the expected range.
Other vases also fetched well above their estimates.
While they pale only in comparison to Silver Car Crash, other Warhols fetched prices above expectation in November, including Coca-Cola (3) which went for $57.2 million at Christie's, and Liz #1 (Early Colored Liz) for $20.3 million, which selling at Sotheby's, also exceeded its high estimate.
It's going to fetch a steep price and above estimate".
At Dotcom Distribution's cavernous New Jersey warehouse, pickers ride "reach trucks" up to three storeys above ground to fetch 50,000 different products for 15 e-commerce clients.
