First few lots are off to a steady start

Lot 1: Picasso goes for $422,500

Lot 2: Rodin, Le Baiser for $1.65m

Lot 3: Pissaro, $1.314m

Lot 4: Degas monotype sells for $1.314m

Lot 5: Pissarro passes at $2.7m

Lot 6: Malliol statue makes $1.538m

Lot 7: Modigliani, starts briskly in the $30 million range and plows up to $47m and across $50m; steady movement up to $61m. Then the bid gets chopped to $61.5m. We’re reaching the top. And it that’s it. The premium price is $68.962m

Lot 8: Giacometti painting makes $2.9m hammer which works out to $3.33m

Lot 9: Picasso drawing reaches $722,500

Lot 10: Maillol goes for $2.6m hammer nearly three times the high estimate.

Lot 11: Sisley, $2.88m

Lot 12: Matisse, $902,500

Lot 13: Monet, Nympheas loses steam just over the low estimate at $22m hammer making $24.7m. This is the second Monet water lily painting to disappoint at auction.

Lot 14: Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne climbs like a ladder to $17m hammer

Lot 15: Giacometti passes at $1.6m

Lot 16: Braque sells under the estimate range for $3.7m hammer or $4.282m

Lot 17: Matisse sculpture Deux Negresses $8.482m which was under the estimate range on the hammer.

Lot 18: Karl Schmidt-Rotluff just nicks the high estimate at $1.7m hammer or $1.986m premium

Lot 19: Macke $1.082m

Lot 20: Second Matisse sculpture has more admirers and easily breaks above the high estimate of $2m. Sells for $2.77m

Lot 21: Nolde landscape $1.762m

Lot 22: Chaim Soutine can’t reach the low estimate but sells for $1.3m on the hammer or $1.426m

Lot 23: Henry Moore passes at $850,00

Lot 24: Matisse that came back on the market gets going quickly up to $14m; creeps up to $16.5m where it looks to be stalling but clicks over to $18.5m which will get the consignor the £10+ million back they spent on it two years ago.

Lot 25: Degas passes at $1.2m

Lot 26: Bonnard passes at $1.5m

Lot 27: Picasso passes at $5,25m

Lot 28: Giacometti sells for$782,500

Lot 29: Matisse fails at $4.75m

Lot 30: Matisse drawing gets $750 hammer

Lot 31: Picasso from 1921 works its way up to $4.7m or $5.346m

Lot 32: Henry Moore passes at $1.7m; not a good night for the sculptor

Lot 33: Bonnard Paris street scene makes $962,500

Lot 34: Renoir passes at $4m

Lot 35: Boudin seascape attracts $1.112m

Lot 36: Gauguin goes for $2.994m

Lot 37: Monet makes $6.522m

Lot 38: Rafaelli street scene makes the estimate range for $1.65m

Lot 39: Picasso goes slightly under the estimate range for $5.4m

Lot 40: Picabia passes at $650k

Lot 41: Chagall auctioneer has to threaten to sell to get the bidding up to low estimate but finally makes it: $3.44m.

Lot 42: Henry Moore passes at $500k; he’s 0 for 3 tonight.

Lot 43: Dali bid up to low estimate of $2m which works out to be $2.322m

Lot 44: Jean Arp statue has no problem selling for exactly the high est. of $1.2m or $1.426m with premium

Lot 45: Joan Miro equals $3.44m at the end of the bidding

Lot 46: Matisse passes at $1.6m

Lot 47: Bugatti passes

Lot 48: Bugatti passes at $1.142m

Lot 49: Bugatti sells for $1.202m

Lot 50: Bugatti for $1.202m

Lot 51: Monet for $2.098m

Lot 52: Seurat at $1.93m

Lot 53: Sisley for $1.022m

Lot 54: Marino Marini for $1.882m

Lot 55: Joan Miro passes $1.1m

Lot 56: Magritte at $2.098m

Lot 57: Max Beckmann for $1.762m

Lot 58: Karl Schmidt-Rotluff for $602,500

Lot 59: Nolde for $842k

Lot 60: Beckmann passes at $2.2m

Lot 61: Kokoschka closes out the sale at twice the high estimate to sell for $1.986m