Contemporary female artists achieved top prices across the Day Sale

• Karin Mamma Andersson’s otherworldly dreamscape On Tenterhooks led the sale, realising a world auction record price of £756,000, three times the high estimate of £250,000
• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Wishes Above Needs sold for £453,600
• Following the extensive survey exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 2022, Marlene Dumas’ Bondage sold for £289,000
• Following the record set at Christie’s on 28 February 2023, three works by Caroline Walker were presented: Patrol sold for £113,400 (estimate: £30,000-50,000), Remarks on the Golden Bow realised £126,000 against an estimate of £100,000-150,000 and The Steam Room achieved £37,800
• Flora Yukhnovich’s Untitled sold for £226,800 against an estimate of £60,000-80,000
• Continuing the above estimate results achieved at Christie’s for Tracey Emin’s paintings, More Dreaming realised £226,800 (estimate: £60,000-80,000)

Artists featuring in recent major international exhibitions drew deep competition

• Peter Doig, Frozen Lake (£327,600)
• Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 39 (£302,400)
• David Hockney, Armchair, Table and Lamp (£352,800)
• William Kentridge, Peripheral Thought No. 1 (Nose Series) (£151,200)

Additional Artist Records

• George Rouy, Looking At Me Through Gaps Of Her Toes (£162,540)
• Philip Tsiaras, Astrologer (from Topology series) (£126,000)
• Guy Yanai, Pauline Reading (£81,900)
• Celeste Rapone, Tony Posing (£45,360)
• Having curated the private selling exhibition ‘Macabre’ at Christie’s in late 2022, Ben Spier’s painting Vice sold for £52,920 against a low estimate of £20,000
• Nicole Wittenberg, Sunset 13 (£27,720)

Sales continue with the Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale on Friday 3 March, and First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, which remains open for bidding until 9 March