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Sotheby’s London Imp-Mod & Surrealism Evening = £93.7m ($134.9m)

February 3, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Paul Delvaux, Le Miroir (5.5-6.5m) 7.3m GBP

Top 10 Impressionist Modern and Surrealist Feb 2016

5 Lots Sold over £7 Million / $10 Million

Average Sold Lot Value £2.5 Million / $3.6 Million

The night was led by Pablo Picasso’s Tête de femme, a 1935 portrait of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter that sold for £18.9 million

A lifetime cast of Auguste Rodin’s Iris led the selection of sculpture on offer, achieving £11.6 million – well in excess of its £8 million high estimate, and marking a new auction record for the artist in GBP

  • The present cast last appeared at auction in 2007 at Sotheby’s London, when it sold for £4.6 million
  • Sculpture performed well throughout the evening, with 9 of 10 pieces on offer sold, for a combined total of £17.1 million

The Surrealist portion of tonight’s sales was led by Paul Delvaux’s Le Miroir, which achieved a new auction record for the artist in selling for £7.3 million

  • The same painting set an auction record for the artist when it was last sold in 1999
  • Surrealist material totaled £14.9 million, including a new auction record for a sculpture by Man Ray

Claude Monet’s Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur from 1908 sold for £11.6 million

  • Of Monet’s 36 Venice pictures, half now reside in museum collections

Henri Matisse’s La Leçon de piano from 1923 sold for £10.8 million

  • The painting was acquired by Royan Middleton, an Aberdonian printer and publisher, in 1927 and has remained with his family since
  • The work is closely related to a number of paintings in major museums including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Kunstmuseum in Berlin

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