Rendered in Katz's signature flat color and simply drawn shapes that tease the line between abstraction and representation, she is both Ada Katz and a mere painted subject, barely more significant than a tree, a chair, or a fetching, well-painted scarf.
Top condominiums can fetch well over $1 million.
Other vases also fetched well above their estimates.
As the dollar has fallen, the prices of commodities priced in dollars have jumped: oil fetches well over $100 a barrel.
"Eventually the feed will run out, and the government has said it will kill every last cow," says Yamamoto, whose cows once fetched well over $10,000 per head.
The most rare and coveted titles in pristine condition with their original cover can fetch well into the millions at auction.
"What do they fetch?" Well, they certainly know how to carry a tune.
A set of eight paintbrushes once used by the great abstract painter Francis Bacon are also up for bid, poised to fetch well over $30,000.
It fetched £1.87m, well above its pre-sale estimate of between £800,000 and £1.2m.
When investors are euphoric for new issues, the stocks typically fetch prices well above the expected range.
Considered a design classic, there are less than 1,200 models of the car in existence, and they regular fetch prices well into the hundreds of thousands when sold at auction.
