T uesday, 14 May was a monumental night at Sotheby’s New York, as 56 works from some of the greatest artistic masters of the 19th and 20th century garnered an incredible $350 million. The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale's remarkable results speak to both the magnဣitude of the spring auction's consignor collections and the dynamic power of today’s art market.
168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Claude Monet’s Meules was the evening’s undoubted winner, with a winning bid of $110,747,000. The sale sets a new artist record price for a work by the artist, outdoing the previous benchmark of $84.7 million. What's more, the masterpiece is the first work of Impressionist Art to sell for more than $100 million at auction. In just eight minutes, six bidders fought hard for the masterpiece – but there could be only one winner. Meules is considered the crowning achievement of Monet’s Haystacks series, but𒁃 the present work has not been seen at auction since its sale to a prolific collector in 1986. Given this, Tuesday’s sale was a rare opportunity for buyers to appreciate the sublime work of a profound master.
$110.7 Million Monet Shatters Auction Records
The sale of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Pablo Picasso’s Femme au Chien was another nail-biting sale in the evening’s auction, as a bidding war finally ended with an astonishing $54,936,000. The sale is a new record high for a 1960s era Picasso work. Several other significant works by Picasso, most notably 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Mousquetaire à la pipe and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Nu au chapeau, also caught bidders’ attention. Mousquetaire à la pipe, part of Picasso’s famed 1968 series depicting suave musketeers, sold for $20,766,000, while Nu au chapeau, buste, a portrait of Picasso’s wife Jacqu𒈔aline, sold for $8,042,900.
Gustave Caillebotte's 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:La Rue Halévy, vue du sixième étage, an embodiment of late nineteenth-century P൲aris, earned a magnificent $13,932,000 after much back-and-forth a🌞mongst bidders. The work last came to auction in 1981; notable former owners of the work include prominent New York industrialist Chester Roth and Caillebotte’s life-long friend, Paul Hugot.
It was a glorious night for Latin artists Rufino Tamayo and Joaquín Torres-García, as well. 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Tamayo’s Sandías, a remarkable work of oil and marble dust on canvas, sold for $4,933,900. In the work, eight slices of red watermelon stand out against a dusty pink and hazy, rust-colored background. Fruit is the pervasive theme in Tamayo’s work – critics often connect the images to the artist’s personal history, Mexican culture, or both. But the show didn’t stop there: the sale of Torres-García’s captivating 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Construcción en blanco for $3,380,000 shattered 💃the artist’s previous record of $2.1 🦋million.
In all, the evening’s sale was a spectacular success, replete with the finest examples of Impressionist &a𝔍mp; Modern works on the market this year. There’s more to come, though: tomorrow’s Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale is sure to be nearly as exciting as this evening’s auction.
