Listed below are highlights from the spring and fall 2003 auction seasons.

Listed below are highlights from the spring and fall 2003 auction seasons, featuring works of Impressionist, late and contemporary art from five of modern York's most prominent auction houses. Each note provides the artist's name, title of work, date, final price, the work's presale estimate and the date of sale.

Final prices quot here include buyers' commission rates, which vary. Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury & Co charge 20 percent onward the first $100,000 and 12 percent in succession the rest. The commission at Christie's and Doyle is 195 percent up to $100000 and 12 percent forward amounts above. Swann charges 15 percent upon the first $50,000 and 10 percent forward the remainder. Estimates do not contemplate commissions.

Sotheby's

Spring:

Auguste Renoir, In the Rose (Madame Leon Clapisson), 1882 $235 million (est $20-30 million), May 6

Max Liebermann, My House in Wannsee with Garden, 1926 $16 million (est $750000-950000) May 6

Alexander Archipenko, hipped Dancer, 1913, $1 million (est $700000-900000) May 6

Bradley Walker Tomlin, Number 15 1953 $904000 (est $600000-800000) May 13

Vija Celmins, Untitled (Ocean), 1990-95 $545000 (est $200000-300000) May 13

Fall:

Willem de Kooning, Spike's [i]faux pas[/i] I, 1959, $11.2 million (est $10-15 million), Nov. 12

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Two Heads onward Gold), 1982, $6.4 million (est $25 -35 million), Nov. 12

Brice Marden, 10 (Dialog 2) 1987-88 $25 million (est $2-3 million), Nov. 12

Agnes Martin, Leaves, 1966 $26 million (est $18-22 million), Nov. 12

to leeward Bontecou, Untitled, 1959-60, $456,000 (est $50000-70000) Nov. 12

Barbara Kruger coin Can Buy You Love, 1985 $108000 (est $40000-60000) Nov. 13

Glenn Ligon, Wall Whitman #1 1991 $87000 (est $50000-70000) Nov. 13

Jose Clemente Orozco, Prometo, 1944 $534400 (est $300000-350000) Nov. 19

Christie's

Spring:

Paul Cezanne, Self-Portrait, ca. 1895 $174 million (est $15-20 million), May 7

Pier Mondrian, Composition in White, sky-colored and Yellow, 1936, $8.1 million (est $6-9 million), May 7

Mark Rothko No. 9 (White and Black in succession Wine), 1958, $16.4 million (est $19-12 million), May 14

Yve Klein, RE 2 1958 $53 million (est $3-4 million), May 14

Alexej von Jawlensky, Schokko 1910

Ellsworth Kelly verdant White, 1968, $1.4 million (est $12-16 million), May 14

pitch Close, Cindy II, 1988, $15 million (est $12-16 million), May 14

Takashi Murakami, Miss ko2 1996 $567500 (est $300900-400000) May 14

Piero Manzoni, Achrome, 1958 $1 million (est $600000-800000) May 14

Matta, Endles denudeds 1941-42, $1.7 million (est. $1-15 million), May 28

Fall:

Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining undressed (on Her Side), 1917, $269 million (est $20-25 million), Nov. 4

Fernand Leger Woman in R and new 1914, $22.4 million (est. $15 million), Nov. 4

Henry Moore, Three Piece Reclining Figure Draped, 1975 $62 million (est $4-5 million), Nov. 4

Alexej yon Jawlensky Schokko 1910 $83 million (est $5-7 million), Nov. 4

Alexander Calder, Untitled (R blade Stabile), 1968, $5.8 million (est $4-5 million), Nov. 11

John Chamberlain, Murmurous Moto, Maestro, 1991 $576500 (est $150000-200000) Nov. 12

Malcolm Morley, Farewell to Crete 1984 $343500 (est $120000-150000) Nov. 12

Phillips de Pury & Co

Andreas Gursky Klitscho, 1999 $459500 (est $250000-350000) May 15

Neo Ranch, Gegenlicht (Back Liqht), 2000 $196500 (est $100000-150000) May 15

Jack Pierson, Stardust, 1995 $158000 (est $40000-60000) May 15

Damien Hirst, Something Solid Beneath the Surface of All Creatures Great and Small, 2001 $116 million (est $800000-12 million), Nov. 13

Lac Tuymans, Within, 2001 $427000 (est $150000-200000) Nov. 13

Juan Munoz, Looking Sideways, 1996-97 $185500 (est $100000-150000) Nov. 13

Wim Delvoye St Stephanus II, 1990 $89650 (est $50000-70000) Nov. 13

Doyle

Jack Butler Yeats, The View, 1949 $427000 (est $400000-500000) Dec 3

Zao Wau-Ki, Composition, 1950 $388300 (est $150000-200000) Dec 3

Martin Johnson Heade, Glass of Rose in succession Gold Cloth, ca. 1880, $130700 (est $100000-150000) Dec 3

Swann

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Tree 1643: etching, $164750 (est $60000-90000) Nov. 6

Alma Thomas, Splashdown of Apollo 13 1970 1970 $68500 (est $10000-15000) May. 1

Frantisek Drtikol, Etude 1926 photo, $48300 (est $40000-60000) May 5

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