Let’s say you have $40 million to spend at Christies, just for fun. Last Tuesday, they set a record for the auction house when they sold $857 million worth of art in one evening. Among the big winners that night were these three record-setting graphic works by Ed Rusha ($30,405,000), Roy Lichtenstein ($2,741,000) and Christopher Wool ($6,997,000) which add up to roughly $40 million. But, if you’d rather have a sweet apartment (another good place to plop $40 mill) this penthouse in the West Village, one of Richard Meier’s masterful designs, is being offered by Christie's Real Estate for the first time since its completion. The duplex is 4,550-square-feet, with four-bedrooms, four-baths and dramatic 21-foot ceilings with an 1,800 square foot terrace and spectacular views of the Hudson River (and my own front door a few blocks away.) You don’t have a LOT of wall space but there’s enough for these three works, so if you’ve got another $40 mill, you can have it all. And If You Don't Like It You Can Get The Fuck Out Of My House.

This Ed Ruscha from 1963 set an artist record selling for $30,405,000

Even Lichtenstein would say that $2,741,000 is a lot of dimes... (for a work on paper)

Christie’s & Sotheby’s (and to a somewhat lesser degree, Phillips) auction houses are offering some 2,300 lots during two weeks of sales of Impressionist, modern, postwar and contemporary art. The total is expected to top the $1.8 billion total from last November’s auction but might not hit the $2.2 billion record set in May 2014.

A bronze “chariot” sculpture byAlberto Giacometti from ’51-’52 has been in the same private collection for more than forty years is valued at more than $100 million at Sotheby’s. It’s not a stretch since a Giacometti’s went for $103.4 million in 2010.

Sotheby’s has Van Gogh’s 1890 “Still Life, Vase With Daisies and Poppies” valued at $30-$50 millionwhich has been on view for the past 30 years at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Edouard Manet’s “Le Printemps,” at Christie’s, estimated at $25-35 million, has also been in the same collection for more than 25 years and on on loan to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Wade Guyton is a fairly new entry into the “evening auction pantheon”. His untitled inkjet painting from just 8 years ago is estimated at $4-6 million. His work came to auction first six years ago, when an untitled inkjet painting sold for $72,500 at Christie’s.

On November 10, Sotheby’s hosts a single sale of oil heiress and philanthropist Bunny Mellon’s art collection, and two paintings by Mark Rothko are estimated to sell for as much as $20-30 million, respectively.

Christie’s November 12 evening auction, among MANY offerings, has two major paintings by Warhol – a 1963 triple screen print of Elvis Presley and a 1966 black and white screen print of Brando on a motorcycle, “Four Marlons.”. Each is more than 6-feet tall and estimated at$60+ million. Francis Bacon’s huge 1960 canvas, part of his series of Papal portraits, is estimated to sell for$40-60 million. Get out your VISA Black Cards, kids.

Andy Warhol, 1963, Triple Elvis & Four Marlons, each set. $40-60 million

Alberto Giacometti, 1951-52, Chariot, est. $100 million

Vincent Van Gogh, 1890, Still Life, Vase With Daisies and Poppies, est. $30-50 million

Pablo Picasso, 1969, Homme Assis, est. $8-12 million

Alexander Calder, Blue Flower, Perforated Red, est. $2.5-3.5 million

Jasper Johns, Flag, 1994, est. $15-20 million

Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1990, est. $12-18 million

Jeff Koons, Balloon Monkey (orange) 2014, est. $20-30 million

WHAT $40 MILLION GETS YOU AT CHRISTIE'S...

FALL ART AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS: ELVIS, MARLON, INKJET, SCRIBBLES & $100 MILLION CHARIOT