BRINGING FLAGSHIP LIVE SUMMER SALES TO ALMOST $1.1 BILLION
AT £22.3M / $28.7M JOAN MIRÓ'S PEINTURE BECOMES MOST VALUABLE WORK SOLD AT AUCTION IN EUROPE THIS SEASON
FIVE WORKS SELL FOR OVER $10 MILLION
"Unprecedented times are often a catalyst for change, demanding resilience and reinvention. This is true for artists, it extends to organisations and markets, and has unequivocally shaped Sotheby's 276-year history. This season, we have started to re-write the rule book of auctions – pioneering a new live-streamed auction format and an equally innovative cross-category sale concept, disrupting the established sales calendar along the way. Though it's late in the season by traditional standards, it's clear from tonight's results that the market here in London and around the world has definitely not gone on holiday."
Oliver Barker, Sotheby's Chairman, Europe and auctioneer for the evening
"The time-honoured criteria of freshness, quality and rarity are a constant in our ever-changing world, and the at times ferocious determination of bidding tonight was testament to this. We were entrusted with a trove of great material that ticked all the boxes for serious collectors. This was nowhere more evident than with the Avant Garde private family collection, as every single lot, seldom seen for decades, found a new home tonight. The top lot of the evening – and indeed, the season – was the luminous Miró, which emerged at auction for the first time since 1966 and set a new high auction price for Europe's spring summer sales this year."
Helena Newman, Sotheby's Chairman, Europe, and Worldwide Head of Impressionist & Modern Art
LONDON – 28 JULY 2020: Tonight in London, Sotheby's staged a first-of-its-kind cross-category Evening Sale, bringing together over 500 years of art history. The auction saw collectors out in force – some placing bids in real time via Sotheby's specialists on live-streamed telephone banks around the world, while others bid online, and – in accordance with local government guidelines – a small number of clients bid in person at Sotheby's New Bond Street.
KEY FACTS AND FIGURES:
NEW DIGITAL FORMATS DRIVE VIEWS AND BIDS:
MARKET RESPONDS TO FRESH MATERIAL:
TOP END OF THE MARKET IS IN RUDE HEALTH. FIVE LOTS SELL FOR OVER $10 MILLION:
DEMAND DRIVES COMPETITION AND EXTENDED BIDDING BATTLES:
FURTHER NOTABLE MOMENTS:
ONLINE SALES
Lot 64, Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Still Life of Four Tulips in a Wan-Li Porcelain Vase
Lot 60, Abraham Mignon, Still Life with Plums, Peaches, Apricot, Grapes and a Melon, with a Roemer Glass and a Flute Glass, all on a Draped Table, a Goldfinch on the Window Sill...
Lot 58, August Macke, Studie zu Hellem Schaufenster (Study for a Bright Shop Window)
Lot 53, Alexej von Jawlensky, Saviour’s Face - Resurrection or the New Life II, est. £250,000-350,000
Lot 50, Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A Whalley Bridge and Abbey, Lancashire Dyers Washing and Drying Cloth Estimate £1 - 1.5 million
Lot 46, Lyonel Feininger, Lastträger am Meeresstrand (I) (Beachcombers by the Sea (I)), est. £700,000-900,000
Lot 43, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Lady, Three-Quarter Length, wearing an elaborate black dress and cloak, before a red drape and a distant landscape
Lot 32, David Hockney, Pool on a Cloudy Day with Rain (Paper Pool 22), est. £4-6 million
Lot 31, Henri Matisse, Danseuse assise dans un fauteuil, 1942, oil on canvas (est. £8-12 million)
Lot 23, Paolo Uccello, Battle on the banks of a River, probably the battle of the Metaurus (207 BCE)
Lot 17, Joan Miró, Peinture (Femme au chapeau rouge), 1927, oil on canvas (est. £20-30 million)
Lot 15, Egon Schiele, LIEGENDER AKT MIT GESTREIFTEN STRÜMPFEN (RECLINING NUDE WITH STRIPED STOCKINGS)
Lot 12, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Self-portra]it, wearing a ruff and black hat, 1632, est. £12-16 million
Lot 8, Wassily Kandinsky, Ohne Titel (Komposition) (Untitled (Composition)), est. £600,000-800,000
Lot 4, Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau, Schloss und Kirche II (Muranu Castle and Church II)
Rembrandt Van Rijn, Self-portrait, wearing a ruff and black hat, 1632, est £12-16 million ($15-20 million) -Photographer Antony Jones (3)
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