MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH ART DAY SALE ACHIEVED A TOTAL OF£5,103,630 / $6,772,517 / €6,129,460
• The Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale, part of the 20/21 March Season, realised a total of £5,103,630 selling 93% by value and 79% by lot
• The Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale was led by L.S. Lowry’s Children in the Street, 1966, which sold for more than double its high estimate to realise a price of £315,000. L.S. Lowry’s Old Church, Merthyr-Tydfil, 1960, sold for £277,200 ahead of an estimate of £120,000–180,000. These results follow strong prices for the artist in the Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale on 22 March 2022
• The sculpture in the sale achieved strong results, highlighted by Dame Barbara Hepworth’s Mother and Child, 1972, which sold for £176,400, more than double its high estimate
• Additional notable sculpture results include:
• Dame Elisabeth Frink, Wild Boar, 1975, (£176,400)
• Dame Elisabeth Frink, Barking Dog,1981, (£176,400)
• Lynn Chadwick, Sitting Figures in Robes II, 1980, (£163,800)
• William Turnbull’s Horse 1, 1987, (£157,500)
• Artists from the St. Ives School were well represented throughout the sale:
• Dame Barbara Hepworth, Two curved forms on a grey ground, 1947, (£132,300)
• Ben Nicholson’s, Feb 13 - 52 (salmon + grey), 1952, (£94,500)
• Adrian Heath, Painting, 1962, (£83,160)
• Prunella Clough’s Fishermen with Sprat Nets II, 1949, achieved a world auction record price of £126,000
• David Hockney’s Still-life (The History of Impressionism), 1974, exceeded presale expectations to sell for £151,200 against a high estimate of £50,000