T he 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Impressionist🃏 and Modern Art Evening Sale drew excited crowds to Sotheby’s London saleroom, to see 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Claude Monet’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Le Palais Ducal make history on its auction debut, selling for £27.5 million. The enchanting Venetian vista recently appeared in the highly acclaimed exhibition Monet & Architecture at ﷽the . Helena Newman, Worldwide Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department & Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, said: "This spellbinding painting is a true masterpiece and among the very😼 greatest Monet painted during his first and only encounter with Venice."
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Alongside this, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Egon Schiele’s Triestiner Fischerboot (Trieste Fishing Boat) soared to £10.7 million, as bidders battled it out on the phones and in the room. Known particularly for his depictions the human form, Triestiner Fischerboot (Trieste Fishing Boat) marks a period of p🧸꧂articular turmoil for Schiele, and a shift in focus for the artist from the figure to his surroundings.
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A number of other works by Schiele were also offered, including a delicate portrait of his sister Gertrude ‘Gerti’ Schiele, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Auf dem Bauch liegendes Mädchen, which sold for £1.6 million, and apt marker of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:the centenary of the artist's death.
Several works from the Bauhaus era were brought together to mark 100 years of the seminal school, including Oskar Schlemmer’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Tischgesellschaft (Group at Table) from the collection of Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher, which found a buyer for £2.6 million — setting an auction record for the artist.
Created at the height of his powers, when working alongside his groundbreaking contemporaries, such as 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Paul Klee and László Moholy-Nagy, Tischgesellschaft exemplifies Schlemmer’s rigourous investigation of the human body as it related to its environs. Wassily Kandinsky's remarkable composition, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Vertiefte Regung (Deepened Impulse) — also strongly reinforcing the enduring legacy of the Bauh𒁏aus — hammered down at £6.1 million.
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Alberto Giacometti's haunting 1959 portrait 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Tête De Femme (Annette) sold for £3.3 million and was joined by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's dynamic and colourful 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Mädchen Auf Dem Diwaꦚ♏n (Girl on a Divan) — which achieved £3.9 million.
Following the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Surrealist Art Evening Sale, saw Rene Magritte’s dramatic 1938 painting 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:L'étoile Du Matin hammer down at £5.3 million, closely followed by Francis Picabia's 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Atrata, from the artist's celebrated Transparences series, on which seven bidders competed, reach £3.7 million. The two sal🌟es made a combined tota👍l of £87,707,800.
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The sale series continues tomorrow with the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Impressiꦕonist and Modern Art Day Sale, beginning at 10.30am GMT.
