NEW YORK.- Six records were set at Christie's Latin American Art sale in New York. Virgilio Garza, Head of the Latin American Art department: “Tonight’s sale realized very solid prices for works by traditional and internationally appreciated artists such as Botero and Tamayo. The great collector’s eye of Ruth and Harvey Kaplan, which already sent prices soaring in the past evening sales of Impressionist and Modern and Post-War and Contemporary Art, also triumphed tonight with their fabulous Tamayo, Discusión acalorada, fetching $867,200. It was interesting to see the interest wave for sculpture also washing over Latin American shores with Botero’s Sitting Woman achieving a new world auction record for a sculpture by the artist and Zuñiga’s powerful Madre con niño en la cadera fetching $216,000. World auction records were established for Botero, Coronel, Iommi, Amorales, Rodriguez and Anguiano. We look forward to our day sale tomorrow, starting at 10 a.m.”

Rufino Tamayo's Discusión acalorada, 1953 sold for $867,200 to an anonymous buyer. Tamayo's La silla amarilla, 1929, sold for $744,000 to an anonymous buyer. Fernando Botero's A Family, 1996, sold for $732,800. Botero's Sitting Woman, 1976 sold for $688,000, a world auction record for a sculpture by the artist. Tamayo's Los comediantes, 1986 sold for $576,000. Fernando Botero's The Model, 1989, sold for $475,200. Joaquin Torres-Garcia's Constructivo en grises, 1943, sold for $329,600. Pedro Coronel, La primavera, 1958, sold for $307,200, a world auction record for the artist. Claudio Bravo's Untitled (Bolsas de papel), 1969, sold for $216,000. Francisco Zuñiga's Madre con niño en la cadera, 1979 sold for $216,000.