Sotheby’s 19th Century paintings sale in London pulled in $11.857m with 70% of the 178 lots sold. The high estimate for the sale was £6m and the total was in excess of £7m. According to Sotheby’s, 41% of the lots sold above their high estimates. Several German paintings sold for many times the estimate range, these included some works that came on the market as the result of restitution claims.
1– 76 Joaquín Sorolla Barcas en la playa £1,665,250 ($2,754,490)
2– 39 Anselm Feuerbach Medea an der Urne £457,250 ($756,337)
3– 67 Carl Larsson, Spegelbild med Brita £421,250 ($696,790)
4– 105 Ludwig Deutsch, The Scholar £409,250 ($676,490)
5– 6 Adolph Menzel, Umgestürzter Teekessel £373,250 ($617,393)
6– 75 Hermenigildo Anglada-Camarasa, Entrando en el palco £313,250 ($518,147)
7– 80 Julio Romero de Torres, La Niña Torera £301,250 ($498,298)
8– 14 Friedrich Nerly, Der Palazzo Foscari am Canale Grande, Venedig £283,250 ($468,524)
9– 66 Isaac Grünewald, Lot och hans Döttrar £181,250 ($299,806)
10– 68 helene Schjerfbeck, Pieni Gudrun, Lilla Gudrun £133,250 ($220,409)
