The Impressionist and Modern
market has been on a kind of revival with Christie's sale of Impressionist and
Modern art held in London on June 20,2018 which yielded 128.1 million GBP just
near its high estimate, its second highest June sale in this domain since 2012.
Unlike Sotheby's, which yielded
its final total on financial guarantees, Christie's auction had only two backed
by third parties while the quality of the works offered for sale with 30 of the
37 lots that sold within or above their estimates.
From the estate of
Texan collector Perry Bass Monet's view of the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris dated
1877, which carried a 22 million to 28 million GBP estimate only reached 25 million
while Picasso's portrait of Dora Maar from 1942, unsold in 1990
with a 3 to 3,5 million GBP estimate, culminated at 19,4 million.
A lifetime cast of
Rodin's Baiser, sold for
12.6 million GBP, well above its high estimate of 7 million while the Waltz by
Camille Claudel fetched 1,1 million. Bought by an american collector in 1985
for 65,000 pounds, Egon Schiele's
watercolour of a kneeling woman sold for 1,56 million, more than double its
estimate, and a superb 1912 gouache of three horses by Franz Marc went for a
record 15,4 million.
A 1922 portrait by
Conrad Felixmuller of his brother sold to an American phone bidder for £608,500
($800,975), more than double its high estimate. A 1919 painting of a waterfall
by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, went near the top of its estimate for 1 million GBP
and a figurative watercolor by Kazimir Malevitch sold for 7.9 million, a record for a work on paper by
the artist.
The Impressionist and Modern
market has been on a kind of revival with Christie's sale of Impressionist and
Modern art held in London on June 20,2018 which yielded 128.1 million GBP just
near its high estimate, its second highest June sale in this domain since 2012.
Unlike Sotheby's, which yielded
its final total on financial guarantees, Christie's auction had only two backed
by third parties while the quality of the works offered for sale with 30 of the
37 lots that sold within or above their estimates.
From the estate of
Texan collector Perry Bass Monet's view of the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris dated
1877, which carried a 22 million to 28 million GBP estimate only reached 25 million
while Picasso's portrait of Dora Maar from 1942, unsold in 1990
with a 3 to 3,5 million GBP estimate, culminated at 19,4 million.
A lifetime cast of
Rodin's Baiser, sold for
12.6 million GBP, well above its high estimate of 7 million while the Waltz by
Camille Claudel fetched 1,1 million. Bought by an american collector in 1985
for 65,000 pounds, Egon Schiele's
watercolour of a kneeling woman sold for 1,56 million, more than double its
estimate, and a superb 1912 gouache of three horses by Franz Marc went for a
record 15,4 million.
A 1922 portrait by
Conrad Felixmuller of his brother sold to an American phone bidder for £608,500
($800,975), more than double its high estimate. A 1919 painting of a waterfall
by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, went near the top of its estimate for 1 million GBP
and a figurative watercolor by Kazimir Malevitch sold for 7.9 million, a record for a work on paper by
the artist.
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