Sotheby’s offered some instant facts on tonight’s sale:
- The Evening Sale totaled an exceptional $422.1 million, marking the highest total for any auction in Sotheby’s history
- Registered bidders in tonight’s sale came from 40 countries, with the highest proportions from the United States, Europe and Asia
- Alberto Giacometti’s legendary Chariot is the second sculpture in auction history to cross $100 million, achieving $100,965,000
- Amedeo Modigliani’s totemic goddess Tête established a new world auction record for the artist, selling for $70,725,000
- Never before offered at auction, and one of few examples from the series remaining in private hands
- Breaking the artist’s previous auction record of $69 million, set at Sotheby’s in 2010 by the canvas Nu assis sur un divan (La belle romaine)
- 12 sculptures were sold in tonight’s sale, together bringing $191 million
- Three works by Claude Monet from a Private American Collection totaled $61.9 million, led by Alice Hoschedé au jardin from 1881 that achieved $33,765,000 million – a new auction record for a portrait by the artist
- The works are appearing at auction for the first time in decades
- Following Sotheby’s June 2014 sale of Monet’s Nymphéas for $54 million – the second-highest ever achieved for his work at auction
- Vincent van Gogh’s Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies fetched $61,765,000, marking a new auction record for any still life by the artist, as well as the highest auction price for Van Gogh since 1998
- One of the few works Van Gogh sold during his lifetime
- Following Sotheby’s February 2014 sale of Van Gogh’s L’homme est en mer for $27.5 million
