20/21 SALE SERIES DURING PARIS+

• Combined sale total: €121 million I $128 million
• Record 20/21 week for Christie's Paris
• Top two prices of the season achieved at Christie's: €20.7million for Joan Miró and €18.3 million for François-Xavier Lalanne

« With this series of exceptional sales, Christie's Paris is  fully aligned with the dynamics of Paris+ by Art Basel taken an ever-growing place in the art world. By offering works by sought-after contemporary artists, including emblematic works of museum quality such as the one by Joan Miró, Christie's has matched demand. Christie's has offered a rich and diverse selection of sales, ranging from the Pont Aven School to Adrian Ghenie, Lucio Fontana and François-Xavier Lalanne, and has presented rare and previously unseen works with their right pre-sale estimate.»Cécile Verdier, Chairman of Christie's France

Paris - Christie's achieved a combined sale total of €121,1 million | $128,1 million for the week of 20/21 sales during Paris+ with sell-through rates of 89% by lot and 95% by value across the five sales. The sales attracted registrants from 50 countries from around the world.17 works sold above €1 million, including two selling for over €15 million. Four works from the Sam Josefowitz Collection will join collections of major French and international museums.

The week began with Love Stories, from the collection of Anne and Wolfgang Titze, totaling €27,7 million. A part of the Titze collection, the fruit of constant and ongoing dialogues with the artists since thirty years, was auctioned to finance the creation of their foundation. Christie's Paris continued the sales by offering François-Xavier Lalanne's Rhinocrétaire I (1964), a museum piece that has belonged since its creation in 1964 to the family of Jeanine Restany, the first gallerist to present the artist's work. The work set yesterday a new world auction record for François-Xavier Lalanne, confirming the artist as one of the great sculptors of the second half of the 20th century. Joan Miró's work offered in the Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian auction sold for €20,7 million. The work came from the famous Colombe d'Or and the funds will benefit the collection that resides at this legendary site founded by the Roux family in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.. 

This month Christie's held a series of sales from the Sam Josefowitz Collection between London and Paris. The running total to date stands at €72,7 million. The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Drawings and Prints by the Pont-Aven school will remain open for online bidding until 25 October. This sale will be followed by the remarkable Rembrandt prints part of this collection on 7 December in London. The Sam Josefowitz Collection achieved to date a number of world auction records during the sales in London and Paris, including for Félix Vallotton, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Aristide Maillol (record for a painting by the artist).

THIS WEEK IN BRIEF :

Love Stories from the Collection of Anne and Wolfgang Titze
Thursday 19 October
Sale total: €27,7 million
Estimate: €6,5–9,6 million
Number of lots: 39
95% of lots sold

 PRESS VISUALS HERE ALL THE RESULTS HERE

Evening Sale of Sam Josefowitz Collection
Friday 20 October
Sale total: €7,6 million
Estimate: €6,3-9,3 million
Number of lots : 29

PRESS VISUALS HERE ALL THE RESULTS HERE

François-Xavier Lalanne - Rhinocrétaire I
Friday 20 October
Sale total: €18,3 million
Estimate: €4–6 million

 PRESS VISUALS HERE

Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian
Friday 20 October
Sale total: €62,2 million
Estimate: €54-77 million
Number of lots: 61

PRESS VISUALS HERE ALL THE RESULTS HERE

Day Sale of the Sam Josefowitz Collection
Saturday 21 October
Sale’s total: €5,1 million
Estimate: €3,2-4,6 million
Number of lots: 94
89% of lots sold

PRESS VISUALS HERE ALL THE RESULTS HERE