NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, including the first part of the Peter Norton Collection, achieved $247,597,000 (£153,510,140/ €178,269,840) demonstrating the continuing appeal of this category among collectors worldwide. Thirty-three works sold for over the $1 million mark and 16 new world auction records were established for artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Louise Bourgeois, among others. In total, sell-through percentages were very strong, with 90% sold by lot and 87% by value. The top lot of the sale was Roy Lichtenstein’s, I Can See the Whole Room…and There’s Nobody in It!, which set a new auction record of $43,202,500 (₤26,785,550/ €31,105,800). Painted in 1961, it is one of the earliest and most important of Lichtenstein’s Pop Art pictures, formerly in the collection of the pioneering collectors Emily and Burton Trem