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RELEASE: RUNNING TOTAL FOR 20th CENTURY AT CHRISTIE'S £182,768,125 / $240,271,648 / €207,412,989

Impressionist & Modern, American and Latin American Art
London EMEA 21 June 2018

RUNNING TOTAL FOR 20th CENTURY AT CHRISTIE'S

£182,768,125 / $240,271,648 / €207,412,989

CHRISTIE’S IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART EVENING SALE REALISED £128,081,750 / $168,299,420 / €145,244,705

CHRISTIE’S HIGHEST TOTAL FOR

MODERN BRITISH ART EVENING AND DAY SALES

£32,689,125 / $43,111,835 / €37,201,406

CHRISTIE’S IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN WORKS ON PAPER AND DAY SALES COMBINED TOTAL £21,997,250 / $28,860,393 / €24,966,878

 

SALE RESULTS:

IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART DAY SALE
21 June 2018, London

The top lot of the sale was Pierre Bonnard’s Coin de jardin fleuri, which realised £968,750 / $1,271,000 / €1,099,531

IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN WORKS ON PAPER AND DAY SALE COMBINED TOTAL: £21,997,250 / $28,860,393 / €24,966,878

 

 

 

SALE RESULTS:

IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN WORKS ON PAPER SALE
21 June 2018, London

The top lot of the sale was Edgar Degas’s Autoportrait, which realised £3,128,750 / $4,104,920 / €3,551,131, nine times above its estimate of £350,000

IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN WORKS ON PAPER AND DAY SALE COMBINED TOTAL: £21,997,250 / $28,860,393 / €24,966,878

 

 

 

SALE RESULTS:

MODERN BRITISH ART DAY SALE
20 June 2018, London

TOTAL: £6,301,625 / $8,280,335 / €7,146,043
Sold by Lot: 92%
Sold by Value: 96%

The top lot of the sale was Barbara Hepworth’s Turning form (Atlantic), which realised £260,750 / $342,626 / €295,691

New auction record for John Wells, Blue Oval£60,000 / $78,840 / €68,040
Anne Estelle Rice, Regatta Day£125,000 / $164,250 / €141,750
William Brooker, White Still Life£33,750 / $44,347 / €38,272

Record in the medium achieved for William Turnbull, 20-1958, £112,500 / $147,825 / €127,575
Lynn Chadwick, Study for Watcher, £20,000 / $26,280 / €22,680
David Jones, Out Tide, £31,250 / $41,062 / €35,437

 

 

 

SALE RESULTS:

IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART EVENING SALE
20 June 2018, London

TOTAL: £128,081,750 / $168,299,420 / €145,244,705
Sold by Lot: 84%
Sold by Value: 96%

Christie’s global season of market leading Impressionist and Modern Art sales, with 32% of buyers from Asia, 27% from the Americas and 41% from Europe

 

 

 

SALE RESULTS:

MODERN BRITISH ART EVENING SALE
19 June 2018, London

TOTAL: £26,387,500 / $34,831,500 / €30,055,363
Sold by Lot: 94%
Sold by Value: 97%

Christie’s realises the highest total in the Modern British Art category to date

 

 

Christie’s 20th Century Season continues with Picasso Ceramics - Online sale, open for bidding until 22 June 2018; Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the Saatchi Gallery on 28 June 2018; Post-War to Present on 28 June 2018; and Sacred Noise, exhibition open for viewing from 25 June to 21 July 2018.

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* Please note when quoting estimates above that other fees will apply in addition to the hammer price - see Section D of the Conditions of Sale at the back of the sale catalogue. *Estimates do not include buyer’s premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

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