[intro]Christie’s Imp/Mod Sale[/intro]

Attendance is light. And away we go:

All prices hammer–no premium.

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Lot 1 Rodin Néréides, grand modèle dit aussi “Trois Sirènes” ou “La Vague” $520k over a $300k high est.

Lot 2 Pissarro Le Quai Malaquais et l’Institut $1.85m after three or more bidders.

Lot 3 Fantin-Latour Fleurs et fruits sells very low to one bid for $1.45m

Lot 4 Corot Ville d’Avray L’Étang vu à travers le feuillage $720k just above the est. range

Lot 5 Rodin Le Baiser Bidders come out blowing through $2m high est. some confusion on bids above $4.5m finally goes to Chris Eykyn for $5.6m

Lot 6 Pissarro Le Pont du chemin de fer, Pontoise stalls at $3.2m and passes

Lot 7 Signac Vieux port de Cannes Frenzy of bidders–four at one level–drive it to $3.3m over a $2m est.

Lot 8 Van Dongen La danse de Carpeaux Early work that has strong order bids from auctioneer gets to $1.8m within est. ramge

Lot 9 Friesz passes at $850k

Lot 10 Picasso Mère et enfant cracks the high est of $800k to make $900,000

Lot 12 Picasso Courtisanes et toreros makes $750k

Lot 13 Miró L’oiseau déploie son beau plumage $650 just above high est. with lots of interest

Lot 14 Matisse Rosace not much interest passes at $2m

Lot 15 Kandinsky Winkelschwungdoing everything they can to get to $2.3m through protracted bidding

Lot 16 Renoir Les hauteurs de Trouville $1.2 finally takes it after several bidders

Lot 17 Pissarro Pommiers à Pontoise, la maison du père Gallien passes @ $320k

Lot 18 Renoir Nu couché goes for $500k over the high by a smidge

Lot 19 Monet Vétheuil, effet de soleil sells for $4.8m

Lot 20 Degas Grande arabesque, troisième temps $550,000 just over the low

Lot 21 Sisley Paysage à Andrésy passes at $700k

Lot 22 Degas Danseuse restitution work sells to Asian specialist to phone bidder for $9.5m

Lot 23 Pissarro Le Cours-la-Reine à Rouen, temps gris $1.75m finally brings it home just above estimates.

Lot 24 van Gogh Weaver pokes over high to $680k

Lot 25 Cross Barques à voiles sur la Giudecca or Venise, Marine $580k is where it stalls

Lot 26 van Dongen La blouse noire $1.3m right in line

Lot 27 Modigliani Portrait de photographe Dilewski $2.4 is all it gets and so it passes

Lot 28 Malliol Monument à Paul Cézanne has better luck at $1.2m

Lot 29 Mondrian Composition II, with Red, 1926 starts at $3m and stops at $4.1m to pass

Lot 30 de Lempicka bidders push it over the est. easily to sell for $1.15m

Lot 31 Magritte Le Cicérone $2.7m takes it below the low est.

Lot 32 Schad Freundinnen $300,000 is all it takes

Lot 33 Picasso Tête de femme has no trouble getting into the $6m range but stops at $6.4m to pass

Lot 34 de Lempicka second portrait has no trouble getting to $3.8m

Lot 35 Ernst Profanation of Spring $1.3m is the ceiling for bids–passes

Lot 36 Picasso Visage féminin $1.1m

Lot 37 Dali Nu dans la plaine de Rosas plenty of bids make this a $3.5m sale

Lot 38 Giacometti Femme debout $1m isn’t enough, it passes

Lot 39 van Dongen Femme nu this too passes at $260k

Lot 40 van Dongen Thé dans mon atelier $2.4m makes a sale

Lot 41 Miró Personnage et oiseau passes at $420k[/private_subscriber][/private_bundle]

Sale ends