NEW YORK, NY.- The Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art realized $272,873,000/£169,181,260 /199,197,290, selling 93% by lot and 92% by value. The sale had a pre-sale estimate of $239.2 to $348.6 million with 75 lots. Buyer geography by lot was 63% American, 20% European, 4% Asian, and 13% other. Marc Porter, Chairman of Christies Americas, commented: We welcomed an enthusiastic response from the global collecting community this evening, giving Christies the weeks highest total for Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sales. Led by an exceptional group of museum-quality works from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Gerhard Richter, this was an evening rich with masterpiece quality works offered fresh to the market from this seasons most important private, corporate and estate collections. Eight lots sold for more than $5 million, and the sale total nearly quadrupled th