Auction Blog

LONDON - Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale took place on the 30 June 2008 and realised $171,879,508 - the highest total for the category at Christie’s in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Three Studies for a Self Portrait by Francis Bacon (1909-1992), a rare self-portrait triptych that the artist painted […]

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Christie?s Sells Francis Bacon?s Triptych for $34.5 M. and Balloon Flower by Jeff Koons for $25.8 M.

LONDON - Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale which took place on the evening off 24 June 2008 realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 - the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which […]

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Monet Masterpiece Makes $ 80.5 Million at Auction A Record for the Artist