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For the second year Christie's postwar and contemporary art sale, on May 11, is expected to bring more money than the usually higher Impressionist and modern sales.

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At the latter, collectors who fear that they'll be outbid in next week's mosh pit of Impressionist and modern sales may scoop up editions of works by Picasso, Warhol, or Diebenkorn for an affordable price.

While Sotheby's postponed its Impressionist and Modern sales three days (to November 8th) in deference to travel delays, in the end, the art market waits for no one and it is a busy time of year.

The challenge will be to persuade sellers who don't need to sell to continue consigning their very best works.Just how difficult this will be can be seen from the fact that when asked about the coming sales, both houses ignore the Old-Master sales that will be held in New York at the end of January and focus instead on the Impressionist and modern sales the following month.

(The highest price at Phillips's Impressionist and Modern sale was $8.5 million for a Cezanne landscape).

Despite the low-energy tenor of the room, the Impressionist and modern sale brought the highest total in a decade.

After the sale, Simon Shaw, head of Sotheby's Impressionist and modern sale in New York, said much of the buying was international.

Sotheby's total sales figure (which includes the house's commission) came to $344.6 million, exceeding the $337.2 million total for its Impressionist and modern sale the week before.

"Several of the contemporary works here are going to go much higher than anything in the Impressionist and modern sale the week before," he said.