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By Adrian Darmon
CHRISTIE'S SALE OF IMPORTANT CHINESE ART YIELDS OVER 262,800,000 USD Christie's dedicated Evening Sale ofImportant Chinese Art from the Fujita Museum, held on March 15, 2017 in New York realized a grand total ofUSD$262,839,500 which alone has surpassed the previous record for any Asian Art Week series in auction history. Link
SOTHEBY'S SALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN NEW YORK TOTALED OVER 26 MILLION USD Sotheby's spring season of Contemporary Art auctions started on March 2 2017 in New York with Contemporary Curated fetching $26,187,625, well over the $16.4/23 million estimate. Link
CHRISTIE'S SALE OF POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART TOTALS OVER 96 MILLION GBP ThePost-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auctionheld in London on March 7, 2017 yielded £96,384,000, a 65% increase on last February's equivalent total, with strong sell-through rates of 95% by lot and 98% by value. Link
A MUCH RESPECTED COLLECTION YIELDS OVER 14 MILLION EUROS AT CHRISTIE'S On 7 March 2017,Christie'sBoniface de Castellane and Anna Gould 'A way of Life' auction achieved a total of €14,266,563 with a magnificent view of the Plazza San Marco by Francesco Guardi fetching € 6,738,500, the highest price achieved by far for an old master painting sold at auction in France over the past two decades Link
TRIUMPH FOR DIEGO GIACOMETTI AT CHRISTIE'S
On 6 March 2017 in Paris, Christie's The Giacomettis of Hubert de Givenchy auction achieved a total of €32,748,500 with 100% of the lots sold above their pre-sale estimate.
The top price of the evening was Diego Giacometti's octogonal table aux caryatides et atlantes, executed circa 1980 which realised €4,162,500 (estimate: €600,000-800,000) establishing a new auction record for the artist.
Sotheby's Evening Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art and Surrealist Art held on March 1 2017 at Sotheby's London totalled £194,753,500, a sum which more than doubled the equivalent sale organized last year with a sell-through rate of 88.9%.
CHRISTIE'S SALE ART OF THE SURREAL FETCHES A TOTAL OF OVER 136 MILLION GBP The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale and Art of the Surreal at Christie's in London on February 28 2017, achievied a combined total of £136,874,598 with lively bidding for Portrait de Lluis Alemany, a work dating from the very beginning of Picasso's career (£773,000 ) and continued with Berthe Morisot's "Femme en noir or Avant le théâtre", which achieved £2,045,000 against a pre-sale estimate of £600,000-800,000 and her "Femme et enfant au balcon" , which more than doubled its high estimate to realise £4,085,000. Link
APPOINTMENT AT CHRISTIE'S Prof. Dr. Dirk Boll has been appointed President, Christie's Europe, Middle East, Russia and India effective immediately and reporting to Guillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer. Link
SOTHEBY'S SUCCESSFUL SALE OF JUDAICA The Important Judaica sale held by Sotheby's on December 15 2016 which began with a significant selection of property from the estate of Shlomo Moussaieff totalled 5,33 million dollars. Link
SOTHEBY'S SALE OF AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART IN PARIS The sale of African and Oceanic art concluded by Sotheby's on December 14 in Paris realized an outstanding total of €8 million. Link
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CHRISTIE'S SALE OF IMPORTANT CHINESE ART YIELDS OVER 262,800,000 USD
