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Lot by Lot: Christie's London Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale

June 23, 2009 by Marion Maneker

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  • Klee and Laurens start the auction well selling over estimate.
  • Early Miró sells according to expectations. So do Caillebotte and Gonazalez
  • Monet, Au Parc Monceau goes for £6.3m, well above estimate
  • Pissarro and Dufy bought in
  • Bonnard sells for £541k
  • Marc horses make £3.7m
  • Nolde’s one of last Poppy paintings just makes low est. with premium at £1.27m
  • Miró goes for £3.9m, well above high est.
  • Jawlensky makes £1.7m just squeaking past low est.
  • Second Bonnard, second Nolde flowers & Dufy bought in.
  • Jawlensky head, Pechstein and Matisse bought in
  • Magnelli sells under low est.
  • Klee and Schiele do very well, above estimate range
  • Kandinsky £577k–upper end of the estimate range
  • Léger makes the low estimate at £337k
  • Picasso, Homme á l’ épée goes for £5.75m, not a strong price but gets the job done.
  • Léger still life sells at low end
  • Giacometti Buste de Diego goes above high est. for £1m
  • Schiele drawing, Jawlensky deco head and Chaim Soutine bought in
  • Duchamp, Arp and Magritte bought in–ouch.
  • Dali makes £241k–respectable.
  • Miró does it again: £577k
  • Matta: £457k
  • Earnst: ¢657k
  • Late de Chirico bought in
  • Ernst sells just around low est. for £881k

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