Christie's
realised £95.6 million, or $150.1 million for its sale of Contemporay art held
in London on June 30, 2015, of sales, well within the pre-sale estimate of
£82/117 million (prices include the buyer's premium) while 30 lots
sold on or below the low estimate with little bidding, and no less than four
gerhard Richter's paintings, including two abstracts, were unsold.
A small
diptych of the heads of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer—two of Francis
Bacon's favorite models—sold within estimate to an Asian phone bidder for £12.2
million, while a less typical large 1971 canvas of Two men
working in a field, fetched £10,7 million after being sold by
the Asian buyer who bought it at auction in 2007 for £5 million,
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