Christie’s 20/21 London to Paris Realises a Combined Total of £250,653,379 / €290,244,795 / $306,999,926
christie’s 20/21 LONDON TO PARIS REALISES A COMBINED TOTAL OF
£250,653,379 / €290,244,795 / $306,999,926
HIGHEST JUNE SEASON TOTAL SINCE 2015
FIVE MASTERPIECES SOLD ABOVE
$10 MILLION
EUROPEAN CLIENTS ACTIVE THROUGHOUT SEASON, ACCOUNTING FOR 48%OF BUYERS IN
EVENING SALES
STRENGTH OF GLOBAL MARKET REFLECTED IN SELL-THROUGH RATES OF
96% BY VALUE and 86% by lot
FIVE MASTERPIECES SOLD ABOVE $10 MILLION
These artists achieved top prices:
Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume: £30,059,500 (four bidders)
Claude Monet, Nymphéas, temps gris: £30,059,500 (three bidders)
Yves Klein, Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124): £27,197,000 (three bidders)
René Magritte’s Souvenir de voyage: £16,090,500 (five bidders)
Auguste Rodin’s Penseur, Taille de la Porte dit "Moyen Modèle" realised €10,739,500 and established a record for a work by the sculptor sold in France
20th CENTURY MASTERS LED PARIS EVENING SALE
Pierre Soulages, Peinture 143 x 202cm, 4 décembre 1970: €2,082,000
Yves Klein, Sculpture éponge rose sans titre, (SE 207): €2,022,000
Jean Hélion L'escalier: £937,824, over three times the low estimate
MORE THAN £10 MILLION RAISED FOR PHILANTHROPY AT CHRISTIE’S
This season Christie’s supported fundraising efforts for humanitarian aid in Ukraine
Jeff Koons’ seminal sculpture Balloon Monkey (Magenta) raised a total of £10,136,500 / $12,437,486 / €11,738,067
The total realised across the auctions in New York, London and Paris, to date, in support of Ukraine is $13,694,966
GLOBAL REACH REFLECTS MARKET CONFIDENCE
Number of bidder countries across the 20/21 London to Paris sale series: 54
Breakdown of buyers by region [by lot] in the evening sales on 28 June:
48% EMEA / 29% Americas / 23% APAC
20/21 London to Paris attracted new clients to Christie’s with 20% new registrants across the sale series
ESTEEMED COLLECTIONS AND EXCEPTIONAL PROVENANCE
In addition to the Marc Chagall, Colour of Life Collection, the 20/21 London to Paris sale series offered the very finest collections including:
The Eye of a Sculptor: Works from The David & Laura Finn Collection
Trois oeuvres provenant de la collection Anne Tronche
The Eclectic Eye: Property from a Distinguished European Collection
Le Grand Style: An apartment on the Quai d'Orsay designed by Alberto Pinto
MARKET LEADERSHIP IN THE ART OF THE SURREAL
René Magritte’s Souvenir de voyage sold for £16,090,500, with five clients bidding to deliver a price that was more than three times the low estimate
Leonora Carrington’s Ferret Race (Stoat Race): £1,362,000 / $1,671,174 / €1,577,196, attracting competitive bidding with four bidders pursuing the painting
DEPTH OF BIDDING WITNESSED ACROSS DAY SALES IN 20/21 LONDON AND PARIS
The Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale in Paris achieved a total of £7,994,798 / €9,257,976 / $9,737,664, selling 96% by value and 87% by lot
Germaine Richier, L'Echiquier - petit led the sale, realising £479,424 / $583,312 / €554,400, which was more than three times the low estimate
The Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale in London achieved £14,976,174 / €17,342,409 / $18,240,980, and was sold 87% by value and 80% by lot
The sale was led by Paul Gauguin’s Vue de Rouen, which realised £1,992,000
Pablo Picasso’s Femme nue assise realised more than double its low estimate, selling for £882,000
German art performed well, with the selection of works within the sale from the Deutsche Bank Collection realising a total of £776,916 and taking the running total to £6,297,554
The Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale in London achieved £11,838,330 / €13,673,623 / $14,323,622, selling 85% by value and 82% by lot:
The sale was led by Aboudia’s Untitled which sold for £504,000, a world auction record for the artist
Edgar Plans, Coffee Time sold for £214,200 against an estimate of £40,000
Salman Toor, Bendiyan Farm realised £478,800, more than double its high estimate
Andy Warhol, Queen Elizabeth II sold for £403,200 against an estimate of £200,000, and a record for the edition
Isshaq Ismail’s Unknown Faces 11 which realised £264,600 against an estimate of £30,000
WOMEN ARTISTS
Barbara Hepworth, Hollow Form with White Interior: £5,785,500, a world auction record for the artist
Work by female artists accounts for 48% of living artists in the London Evening Sale. Leading results were achieved for:
Simone Leigh, Untitled V (Anatomy of Architecture series): £724,500
Rebecca Warren, Basquiat: £352,800
Anna Weyant, Ingrid With Flowers: £403,200
This was echoed in The Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale:
Claire Tabouret, Makeup (Blue Earrings): £302,400
Caroline Walker’s Bedding, Room 44 sold for more than eight times its estimate to set a new world auction record of £428,400
The Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale also witnessed exceptional results:
Hannah Höch’s Doppelkopf realised £239,400
Jacqueline Marval’s La bise d'automne achieved £94,500, a new world auction record for the artist
Gabriele Münter’s Lampe im Fenster sold for £378,000
MARC CHAGALL
The 20 lots offered in Marc Chagall, Colour of Life: Works Formerly from the Artist's Estate achieved a total of £9,736,500 / $11,946,686 / €11,274,867, more than double the low estimate of the collection
The collection was 100% sold, with 90% of lots selling over the high estimate
The group was led by Le peintre et les mariés aux trois couleurs, which sold for £1,602,000
An average of seven bidders per lot participated in the sale
The accompanying online sale, including prints and artist’s books concluded on 30 June, achieving a total of £1,036,980 / €1,200,823 / $1,257,857
SUSTAINABILITY
Artists for ClientEarth – Beatriz Milhazes’ Cebola Roxa - offered as part of Christie’s initiative with Gallery Climate Coalition – has now raised more than £5.6 million [hammer] in the last eight months
