[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