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
