Records price were smashed for 12 contemporary artists at Christie's on Wednesday night. Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat were among the record-setters in a postwar and contemporary art sale in New York that totaled $495 million, the highest sales figure at any art auction.

Pollock's drip-painting “No. 19, 1948” fetched the top price of the sale, a record $58.3 million with fees.

“Woman With Flowered Hat,” a 1963 painting by Pop artist Lichtenstein brought $56.1 million with fees, well above its $32 million high estimate. It reportedly went to jeweler Laurence Graff.

Basquiat’s seven-foot-tall canvas from 1982, "Dustheads," fell to a telephone bidder for $48.8 million with fees.

The salesroom was filled with a who's who of top collectors, from Los Angeles financier Eli Broad to J. Crew chairman Millard Drexler, many dropping more than $20 million on a single artwork.