A 1964 silkscreen from his "Large Flowers" series, depicting two flowers, one pink, one red, was expected to bring $3 million to $4 million.
It was the nightmarish picture of these sinister parachute petals which inspired Flight of the Magnolia and others in his "Aerial Flowers" series.
Topping the first category are works from Carlo Vialu's "We Will Be Greeted With Flowers" series, which takes its inspiration from words spoken by the former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz before the current war in Iraq.
I know he collects Robert Mapplethorpe's flowers series, but does he own any of the more extreme images, the ones that caused some of his work to be removed from galleries in America in the Reaganite 1980s?
It seems more specifically built for his art: his Frozen Flowers series, which decorates nearly every room of the Georgian townhouse with its bright, Technicolor glare, and also his quietly elegant Michelangelo-esque sculptures, so white against the white walls.
I think the combination is irresistible and I hope Sandford does it again and again in his "Virgil Flowers" series.
The show, known as Digital Paradise, features many of the floral, alien forms from his hypnotizing Fractal Flowers series (check out our coverage of Fractal Flowers here) and includes a virtual wall of seeds that bloom in accordance to viewers' distance.
But even Duboeuf's flower label series, entry wines to the cru villages of Beaujolais like Brouilly, Fleurie or Morgon, are now $10 to $15.
A former architect, his only previous major ceramic project was the English Flower Garden series he made for the Cultural Olympiad in 2012, in which models of non-indigenous flowers of Britain represented the diversity of the country today.
