PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944) – Composition III (Komposition No.XIII) sold for £25,235,000.
The combined 20/21 evening sales at Christie’s London generated a total of £218,603,400 /$289,430,902 /€258,389,219. This is a 103% increase on the total achieved last year. The running total for 20/21 sales year to date sits at £494 million with five sales to come in the Marquee Week. The auctions on October 14 realised sell-through rates of 91% by lot and 96% by value.
In an auction rich with extraordinary international works, two museum-quality masterpieces – Wassily Kandinsky’s Das bunte Leben (1907) and Piet Mondrian’s Composition III (1920) – achieved over £25 million each. Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection Evening Sale made £107,508,800/$142,341,651/€127,075,402, the highest value single-owner collection ever at Christie’s London. It achieved with sell-through rates of 98% by lot and 99% by value with 43% of lots selling above the high estimate. The top lot was Francis Bacon’s 1978 Figure in Movement which went to a bidder in the room for £17,185,000. The 20th/21st Century evening sale achieved £111,094,600 / $157,089,250 / €131,313,817.
More than 10,000 people visited the Christie’s galleries during the exhibition at King Street. The anticipation and buzz in the view translated into a packed saleroom, where there great depth of bidding and excitement, online, on the phones and in the room.
See post on antiquesandartireland.com for October 7, 2026