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Live Lots: Christie's Evening Imp/Mod

November 3, 2010 by Marion Maneker

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Lot 1: Rodin passes

Lot 2: Picasso, La Vigne makes $480k hammer

Lot 3: Picasso drawing sells for $1.1m hammer well over the est.

Lot 4: Chagall flowers just makes estimate range but sells for $520 hammer

Lot 5: Seurat landscape sells well below est. at $900k

Lot 6: Pissarro makes the low est. for $3.44m

Lot 7: Caillebotte sells below estimates for $5.122m

Lot 8: Bonnard also selling well below estimate for $698,500

Lot 9: Seurat study for Grand Jette goes in the range for $2.098m

Lot 10: Seurat La Promenade shows the strength of the connoisseur market by selling well above the estimates for $3.33m

Lot 11: Seurat drawing Faneur gets to $962,500

Lot 12: Seurat: Last of the drawings goes for $116,500

Lot 13: Seurat: Femme s’eloignant sells at $194,500

Lot 14: Gauguin‘s fisherwomen makes $842,500 which is below the est. range

Lot 15: van Gogh goes for $3.1m

Lot 16: Naum Gabo passes at $420k hammer

Lot 17: Léger still life pops to the top of the est. range and falls at $7.922,500

Lot 18: Henry Moore maquette finally breaks the curse and beats the estimates at $2.882m

Lot 19: Picasso still life also very strong at $4.226m

Lot 20: Miró comes in low at $2.2m

Lot 21: Giacometti Femme Debout sells low at $842,500

Lot 22: Schiele has insatiable fans and this drawing sells at $7.36m

Lot 23: Juan Gris cracks the top estimate to sell for $28.642m

Lot 24: Klee comes in at $5.01m

Lot 25: Miró sold by Kravis isn’t a hit for $10.33m

Lot 26: Picasso Tete makes $6.13m

Lot 27: Picasso is withdrawn

Lot 28: Degas is good for $746,500

Lot 29: Bonnard blonde passes

Lot 30: Dufy is bid to $1.112m

Lot 31: Monet vase of flowers is $3.218m

Lot 32: Renoir passes

Lot 33: Cezanne bather $722,500

Lot 34: Morandi still life gets plenty of action to $1.98m

Lot 35: Léger drawing is 458,500

Lot 36: Munch print keeps the bidders up to $1.178m

Lot 37: Léger Femme sur fond rouge gets several bidders in to $6.354m

Lot 38: Rodin Balzac breaks the high est. to sell at 722,500

Lot 39: Léger Tasse de thé stalls at $6m. New bidder comes in at $7m but not much competition: $8.146m

Lot 40: Schiele drawing gets $1.314m

Lot 41: Léger acrobats passes at $2.4m

Lot 42: Hepworth bronze pushed by order bid to $5.785m

Lot 43: Léger L’Anniversaire sells well below the estimate for $2.77m

Lot 44: Double-sided Braque still life murders the estimate for $1.986m

Lot 45: Beckmann passes at $480k

Lot 46: Kandinsky, Rosa Rot just gets in there and sells for $1.37m

Lot 47: Picasso from 60s is bid to low est. of $2.5m which works out to be $2.882m

Lot 48: van Gogh also goes just below the low estimate for $3.666m

Lot 49: Henry Moore just makes the low at $2.882m

Lot 50: Delaunay stops at $480 and passes.

Lot 51: Giacometti plaster Buste d’homme has steady bidding well above the estimates to $3m range with no flagging. The final bid is $3.4m which works out to be $3.89m

Lot 52: Picasso Tete de Femme sells just below the low estimate for $1.538m

Lot 53: Picasso Femme Assise drawing is $842,500

Lot 54: Paul Delvaux gets $1.314m

Lot 55: Picasso passes at $2.7m

Lot 56: Picasso Maternité passes at $5.8m with a murmur in the room.

Lot 57: Signac Port d’Antibes just gets over the low est. to sell for $1.594m

Lot 58: van Dongen hat lady has no problem sprinting through the estimate range to sell for $2.322m

Lot 59: Degas drawing makes the low estimate.

Lot 60: Degas passes at $2.6m

Lot 61: Rodin Eve can’t get the last $50k to $1m and so it passes at $950k

Lot 62: Monet fisherman’s cottage gets $2.77m

Lot 63: van Dongen Spanish lady loses steam at $1.9m

Lot 64: Giacometti Femme de Venise V gets up to the $8m low est. Then it’s a lot of work to get any more. Finally tops out at $9.1m hammer or $10.274m

Lot 65: Matisse back #4 starts at $18m. Stutters at $23.5m then a telephone bidder jumps from $28 to $30m. From there we work our way up into the $40m range. Final sale is $48.8m

Lot 66: Bonnard street scene fails at $420k

Lot 67: Vuillard also dies on the vine at $1.6m

Lot 68: Mary Cassatt pastel sells for $500k hammer well under the estimate.

Lot 69: Renoir is bought 15% under the estimate range for $1.986m

Lot 70: Renoir passes at $190k

Lot 71: Renoir $1.022m

Lot 72: Corot $242,500

Lot 73: Sisley passes

Lot 74:  Monet $1.874m

Lot 75: van Gogh passes

Lot 76: Picasso $818,500

Lot 77: Klimt $3.218m

Lot 78: Henry Moore $1.142m

Lot 79: Delaunay $602,500

Lot 80: Kees van Dongen $1.082m

Lot 81: Munch passes at $2.2m

Lot 82: Bonnard $602,500

Lot 83: Pissarro, $506,500

Lot 84: Degas passes

Lot 85: Chagall $1.426m

Lot 81:

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Filed Under: Auction Results Tagged With: Christie's, Impressionist, Modern, New York

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