The helpful folks at Sotheby’s sent along these interesting facts about tonight’s sale:

UNCONFIRMED SALE TOTAL: £75,778,500
Within the Pre-Sale Estimate: £65.6/93.9 million

Participation from 38 countries, among the broadest participation in a London Contemporary Sale
More than 1-in-10 registered bidders came from new markets

Francis Bacon

Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966, £11,282,500

Head III, £10,442,500, in excess of the high estimate (est. £5/7m)

• Included in the artist’s first commercial show in 1949 where it was sold for £150
• Sought after by at least six bidders

Lucio Fontana

Le Chiese di Venezia, £4,450,500

• Among the top five prices ever paid for a work by the artist at auction
• Highest price ever paid for a work from the artist’s Venezia series

Pierre Soulages

Peinture, 21 novembre 1959, £4,338,500, above high estimate (£2/3m)

• Record for the artist at auction
• Record for any living French artist at auction

David Hockney

Double East Yorkshire, 1998, £3,442,500, over the high estimate (£2/3 million)

• A Small Sunbather, 1967 sold for £1,154,500, double the high estimate £300/500,000

Bridget Riley

Stretch, 1964, sold for £1,594,500 (est. £1/1.5 million)

Andreas Gursky

• Stock Exchanges – Totaled £5.5 million (est, £2.5/3.4m)

Chicago Board of Trade III, £2,154,500, more than double the high estimate (£600/800,000)

• Three times the previous auction record for a Stock Exchange photograph
• Sought after by at least 8 bidders

Sigmar Polke

• Four works by the artist brought £2,614,000

Nackte, 1988, £1,538,500, double the price achieved for the work in 2007 (£748,000

Thomas Struth

Pantheon, Rome, £818,500 (est. £400/600,000)

• More than five times the price achieved for the work in 2000

Hurvin Anderson

Beach Scene, £302,500, double the high estimate (£100/150,000)