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By Adrian Darmon
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
OVER 31 MILLION EUROS FOR SOTHEBY'S CONTEMPORARY ART SALES IN PARIS Sotheby's achieved their best result in the field of Contempary art in France since 2001 with a sale held in Paris on December 6 and 7 which totalled €29,049,750, exceeding its presale estimate of €16-23 million, while contemporary artworks from an Italian collection achieved €1,853,500. Link
DAVID BOWIE'S ART COLLECTION DOUBLED ITS GLOBAL ESTIMATE Every lot found a buyer in the first of Sotheby's two-day sale of theDavid Bowiecollection held in London on November 9, 2016 and the pre-sale estimate of £8.1 million to £11.7 million was easily smashed to reach a total of £24.3 million. Link
CLAUDE MONET HITS THE CEILING AT CHRISTIE'S A Claude Monet painting titled "Meule", partpart of his famous grainstack series, was sold at auction by Christie's in New York on November 15, 2016 for 81.4 million dollars, a record for the French master. Link
CHRISTIE'S POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY SALE BRINGS $277 MILLION Despite a $ 277 million turnover, Christie's Postwar and contemporary sale held in New York on November 15, 2016 but it seemed the market has been slowing down during the past year. Link
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