£121m/ $190m Achieved at Sotheby's Tonight - 2nd Highest Total for an Impressionist & Modern Art Sale at Sotheby's London
This evening, Sotheby’s London Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art Sales brought a remarkable combined total of £121,075,400 / $190,500,035 / €140,798,252 (est. £103.2–149million), establishing the second-highest total for a Sotheby’s Evening Sale in this category in London. In total, 18 lots sold for over £1 million, 28 sold for over $1 million.
· The top price of the evening was achieved for Pablo Picasso’s 1932 portrait of Marie-Thérèse, Femme Assise Près D’Une Fenêtre, which sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for £28,601,250/ $45,001,207/ €33,260,316 (est. £25-35 million).
· From the Leopold Museum, Vienna, three exceptional works on paper by Egon Schiele, representing one of the most important groups of work on paper by the artist ever to come to the market, achieved a combined total of £14,011,750/ $22,046,088/ €16,294,226 against an estimate of £9-12 million. The top-selling work of the collection was Liebespaar (Selbstdarstellung Mit Wally) / Lovers (Selfportrait With Wally) from 1914, which achieved £7,881,250/ $12,400,359/ €9,165,084 and set an auction record for a work on paper by the artist (est. £6.5-8.5 million).
· Claude Monet’s monumental water lily painting Nymphéas avec reflets de hautes herbes, which dates from 1914-17, sold for £9,001,250/ $14,162,567/ €10,467,529.
· Leading the selection of works from The Collection of The Late Earl Of Jersey was Claude Monet’s magnificent snow scene Le Givre à Giverny (est. £4-6 million) which achieved realised £8,777,250/ $13,810,125/ €10,207,040, setting a new auction record for a snowscape by Monet .
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