Christie's opened its fall auction season in New York on 1 October with the Post-War to Present sale, a single-session evening that totaled $28 million. The auction house reported spirited bidding from the room, telephones and online platforms, ending the night 81 percent sold by value and 86 percent by low estimate. Records were set for Anni Albers, Judy Chicago, a Gerhard Richter series and Anicka Yi. The top lot was Wayne Thiebaud's 1997 landscape Coastal Farms, a River Delta scene that sold for $1,856,000, more than doubling its $800,000 low estimate. Exceptional prices elsewhere included a red galvanized Donald Judd sculpture from the collection of Barbara Jakobson, which achieved $1,305,600, and Sam Gilliam's large-scale beveled edge painting Region and Mind at $1,024,000. A radiant Josef Albers Homage to the Square painting sold for $960,000 against a $400,000 low estimate. The records set the tone of the night. Anni Albers's Study for B, a rare work on paper, sold for $166,400 and reset the artist's world auction record. Judy Chicago's Pasadena Lifesavers Blue Series #5 established a new auction benchmark at $486,400. Gerhard Richter's vibrant painting Fuji realized $1,152,000, a record for that series, while a luminous installation by Anicka Yi now holds that artist's world record. Kathryn Marber, head of the sale, said the outcome demonstrated continued strong appetite for quality post-war work as well as market excitement for fresh stories and contemporary voices. The sale achieved exceptional prices throughout, with multiple records set for female artists including Judy Chicago, Anni Albers and Anicka Yi, and sold the great majority of lots close to or above their low estimates.