Pablo Picasso, Femme dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar)
The Impressionist and Modern sale at Christie’s in London last night made £128,081,750. The top lot was Claude Monet’s exterior view of the Gare St. Lazare which made £24.9 million.
Picasso’s Femme dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar) made £19.3 million. Franz Marc’s Drei Pferde sold for £15.4 million, six times the estimate of £2.5 million and Auguste Rodin’s Baiser, moyen modele made £12.6 million.
A landscape by Kazimir Malevich made £7.8 million and L’Estaque by Georges Braque sold for £5.2 million. Strong results were also achieved by German and Austrian artists.