Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale

King Street – Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Sale no: 7951/7952 – Top Ten
[All sold prices include buyer’s premium]

Sold: £84,879,800 $136,316,959 €99,903,525

Lots Sold: 60 Lots Offered:76 Sold by Lot: 79% Sold by £:84%
Exchange Rate£:= $1.606/ €1.177

Purchase
Lot Description Estimate (£)
Price Buyer
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Terrasse à Vernon, 1923 £7,209,250
3,000,000 -
10 WORLD RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT $11,578,056 Anonymous
4,000,000
AUCTION €8,485,287
£5,865,250
4,000,000 -
16 André Derain (1880-1954), Bateaux à Collioure, 1905 $9,419,592 Anonymous
6,000,000
€6,903,399
£5,417,250
Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Danseuses jupes jaunes (Deux 3,000,000 -
9 $8,700,104 Anonymous
danseuses en jaune), circa 1896 5,000,000
€6,376,103
£4,857,250
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Sur l'impériale traversant la 2,000,000 -
7 $7,800,744 Anonymous
Seine, 1901 3,000,000
€5,716,983
£4,745,250
3,500,000 -
104 René Magritte (1898-1967), L'aimant, 1941 $7,620,872 Anonymous
5,500,000
€5,585,159
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Etude pour 'Le miel est plus
£4,073,250
doux que le sang', 1926-27 2,000,000 -
106 $6,541,640 Anonymous
WORLD RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT 3,000,000
€4,794,215
AUCTION
£3,961,250
Georges Braque (1882-1963), Nature morte à la guitare 3,500,000 -
5 $6,361,768 Anonymous
(rideaux rouge), 1938 5,500,000
€4,662,391
£3,961,250
Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962), Les arbres en fleurs 2,500,000 -
15 $6,361,768 Anonymous
(Pommiers en fleurs), 1912 3,500,000
€4,662,391
£3,737,250
Claude Monet (1840-1926), La berge du Petit- 3,000,000 -
13 $6,002,024 Anonymous
Gennevilliers, 1875 5,000,000
€4,398,743
£3,065,250
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968), L'actrice Lili Damita, 1,500,000 -
33 $4,922,792 Anonymous
circa 1926 2,000,000
€3,607,799

Comment:
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