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Sotheby’s Imp Mod Evening Sale = $422.1m

November 4, 2014 by Marion Maneker

Sotheby's IM Eve 1114 TT

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

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