As we wrote about it before, both Christie’s and Sotheby’s have large, multi-day modern art sale events this week in London. New results are in from the latest auctions and many masterpieces went for around a million dollars. Below is the selection of some of the recent sales:
“Idylle” by Henri Martin - 541,250 GBP ($1,064,098)
“Les deux fusils” by Fernand Léger - 481,250 GBP ($946,138)
“La dame en rose” by Raoul Dufy - 577,250 GBP ($1,134,874)
“MARCHÉ À LA VOLAILLE À GISORS” by Camille Pissarro - 577,250 GBP ($1,146,245)
“JEUNE FEMME À L’OMBRELLE” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - 505,250 GBP ($1,003,274)
“L’ARAIGNÉE VERTE” by Fernand Léger - 481,250 GBP ($955,618)
The highest prices at Christie’s and Sotheby’s were paid for the paintings below, respectively.
“Nu sur fond rouge” by Marc Chagall - 881,250 GBP ($1,732,538)
“Danseuse” by Gina Severini - 15,049,250 GBP ($29,910,384)
Victor Brauner’s painting was sold for $993,000 as part of the Sotheby’s sales of impressionists and modern art in New York, on May 7.
Other notable sales at the auction was Fernand Léger’s Cubist painting, the “Étude pour La Femme en Bleu” which sold for $39,241,000. Munch’s “Girls on a Bridge” also broke record for the artist with the hammer price of $30,841,000
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