PARIS.- Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale Achieves a total of £9,408,318 / $12,287,263 / €10,386,783

The sale was led by Gűnter Főrg’s Untitled which sold for £450,000.

A further highlight was Harland Miller’s International Lonely Guy which sold for more than four times its low estimate, realising £206,500.

Christie’s partnered with Migrate Art to sell a group of work created from a paint that the art charity made from ash collected from fields in Iraq that had been destroyed by insurgents. The group achieved a combined total of £328,375, led by Loie Hollowell’s Red Earth (£106,250). World Auction Records were set for Piers Secunda and Yahon Chang.

STIK’S Holding Hands (Maquette) realised a world auction record price for the artist of £287,500. The work was sold to benefit The London Borough of Hackney’s New Socially Inclusive Programme of Public Sculpture

Art Moderne Sale Achieves a total of €7,013,625/ £6,352,921/ $8,296,915

The sale was led by Marc Chagall Violoniste dans le clair de lune orange à Vitebsk sold for €584,000.

Further highlights included works of art by Pierre-Auguste Renoir which Le jeu de balles, formely in the Madeleine and Joseph Nash collection realised €487,500 and Jeune femme au chapeau sold almost three times its presale estimate at €325,000.

The important painting by Kees van Dongen, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne coming from a private Swiss collection sold for €350,000 while the work by Suzanne Valadon, La petite fille au miroir established a new world auction record for the artist with €237,500.

Finally, the 5 lots generously offered by an exceptional donator sold to benefit the Institut Mario Negri realised a combined total of €468,750.