The Paris Sales kicked off with new records set and white-glove results for The Schlumberger Collection. Watch auctioneer Aurélie Vandevoorde drop the final hammer on this historic sale.
All lots sold from this collection of unseen Modern and Impressionist masterpieces. It totaled €74.4 million, making it the most valuable fine art sale ever held at #SothebysParis. The evening was led by Claude Monet’s ‘Iris,’ which sold for €50 million and became the most valuable artwork sold at auction in France.
Other highlights include a lush garden painting by Pierre Bonnard, a celebrated cast from Camille Claudel, and three more Monet masterworks.
The Paris Sales continue tomorrow with Surrealism and Its Legacy and Modernités. Register to bid at the link in bio.
#ArtnetNews: Four works by Picasso will hit the auction block this November at Sotheby’s New York, two of which have not been on public view since a 1970 exhibition in Avignon. They were painted between 1964 and 1972, in what is dubbed the Spanish master’s “Heroic Years,” when his style took on a loose, expressive quality widely believed to be indicative of a “final flourish” as he entered the last decades of his life.
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A new record was just set at #SothebysParis: Monet's exceptional 'Iris' painting is now the most valuable artwork ever sold at auction in France.
After a thrilling, 45-minute bidding battle, this landscape from Monet's Giverny period achieved €50 million. It was the star lot of Le Temps Retrouvé: The Schlumberger Collection, a group of 20 modern and impressionist masterpieces.
The Paris Sales continue tomorrow with Surrealism and Its Legacy and Modernités. Learn more at https://t.co/yuRSO7k1PE.
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