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More than $67 million was paid in a 12-day series of sales of Impressionist and 20th-century artworks at Sotheby Parke Bernet and Christie's, an all-time high for such a series of art auctions anywhere in the world. The series ended yesterday.

Among the score of records set in the eight sales was the $37.4 million realized at Sotheby's sale Wednesday night, when 16 paintings from the Havemeyer collection and 80 artworks from other sources were sold. It was the highest figure ever achieved anywhere for an art auction.

Contemporary art sales at the beginning and the end of the 12 days of dispersals opened dramatically at Christie's on May 10 and ended disappointingly at Sotheby's Friday night and yesterday. The first of these, on May 10 at Christie's, Park Avenue at 59th Street, totaled $4.4 million, the highest ever for a contemporary art sale. It made many of the collectors and dealers present echo the sentiments of Allan Stone, the art dealer, who said the art market ''is alive and well and living in New York.''

Mr. Stone made his comment directly after he won, for $1.2 million, Willem de Kooning's ''Two Women,'' a voluptuous oil-and-charcoal on canvas painted in the mid-1950's. It was the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by a living artist, for an artwork by a living American artist, and for an Abstract-Expressionist work. The painting was one of 10 artworks that also established new highs for individual artists, including Sam Francis at $242,000 for his ''Middle Blue''; Richard Lindner at $330,000 for his 1973 ''Ace of Clubs,'' and Adolph Gottlieb, $121,000, the price paid for his ''Transfiguration No. 2,'' from 1958.

The sale at Sotheby's, York Avenue at 72d Street, on Friday night totaled $2.5 million, well below the $3.7 million that had been anticipated, and had several other disappointments. These included Kenneth Noland's 1958 ''Rest,'' a targetlike Color-Field painting, and Christo's 1962 ''Wrapped Perambulation,'' neither of which found a buyer.

However, a major record was achieved with the sale of Jasper Johns's ''In Memory of My Feelings - Frank O'Hara,'' from 1961, for $363,000 to Stefan Edlis, a Chicago plastics manufacturer. The previous record for Johns was the $240,000 paid in 1972 for ''Double White Map.'' (Another of the artist's works, ''Three Flags,'' was sold privately in September 1980 for $1 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art.)

Morris Louis's ''Pillar of Celebration,'' from 1961, a Color-Field painting from the collection of Vincent Melzac, a former president of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, sold at Sotheby's Friday for $242,000 to Richard Stern, a Chicago industrialist who said that he and his wife, Judy, had been planning to buy a painting by Louis for some time.

Mr. Stern was seated on the main aisle directly in front of Marshall S. Cogan, a partner in General Felt, the New Jersey carpeting and office furnishings producer, whose attempt to take over Sotheby's with his partner Stephen C. Swid was blocked two weeks ago by the British Government. Mr. Cogan bid on a few art works but went away empty-handed, a Sotheby's spokesman said. Other Sale Highlights

Another highlight was Alexander Calder's ''Standing Mobile on Swivel,'' which sold for $143,000 to Leslie Waddington, the London dealer. It was one of eight artworks he purchased in the sale.

From the estate of Fred H. Olsen, a chemical engineer who studied painting with Hans Hofmann, came a number of the artist's works, the most important of which was ''Lunar Passage,'' from 1957, which sold for $148,500 to an unidentified American collector.

One of the most discussed works in the sale was the final offering, ''Notre Dame,'' Julian Schnabel's 1979 abstract in oil and porcelain plates on panel that became the first work by the 32-year-old American artist to be auctioned. The work was consigned by Annina Nosei, a dealer, who exchanged one she had in her private collection for another owned by the artist, according to a prior arrangement they had made, David J. Nash, Sotheby's fine-art specialist explained.

The work, measuring 90 by 108 inches, sold for $93,000 to Anita Reiner, a Washington art consultant. ''I think it is marvelous,'' she said, adding that her husband, Burton, a real estate developer, shared her enthusiasm for the artist and that it would hang in their home.

In addition to the $2.5 million realized by Sotheby's Friday night and the $37.4 million achieved Wednesday night, Sotheby's did $4.3 million Thursday in a sale of Impressionist and modern paintings, drawings and watercolors, and $1.8 million in Latin American art on May 12 and 13.

Christie's sales totaled $21 million, including $15.5 million in Impressionist and modern art Tuesday night, $5.2 million in post-World War II art on May 10 and 11, and $553,000 in Latin American art.