In what could only be an anticlimactic end to a New York auction season dominated by Christie’s colossal sale of the $450.3 million “last Leonardo” on Wednesday, Sotheby’s soldiered through the week’s final megawatt event respectably, though without much spark.

The night before, Christie’s bucked convention by shoehorning the Renaissance showstopper into its contemporary art sale, and Sotheby’s followed suit, in a way, lumping a 2001 Ferrari in along with its Bacon and Warhol. It was the race car that Michael Schumacher drove to victory in the Monaco Grand Prix that same year.