Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (2009), oil on canvas sold for £4.6 million.
Peter Doig’s Toronto painting – The Architect’s Home in the Ravine – was the top lot at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening sale in London tonight. It made £14.4 million.
A packed London saleroom witnessed intense bidding on the phones for Rudolf Stingel’s monumental mountainscape Untited (2009). This theatrical view of the Tyrolean Alps near Merano, Italy sold for £4.6 million. Christopher Wool’s Untitled soared over its high estimate to reach £10.4 million, and a trio of abstract works by Gerhard Richter achieved a combined total of £21.3 million.
The evening sale realised a total of £109,292,700.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 16, 2018 and February 11, 2016)