Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art in Paris Totals $11.7 Million

PARIS.- Yesterday in Paris, Sotheby’s Summer Evening Sale of Contemporary Art achieved a successful total of €9,517,050 / $11,679,324 / £7,932,168, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €5.1-7.0 million / $6.3-8.6 million / £4.2-5.8 million. The sale achieved exemplary sell through rates of 93% by lot and almost 100% by value and these rank as some of the highest sell through rates ever seen in a Contemporary Art sale at Sotheby’s Paris. In addition, the sale saw two [...]

Ode to Winter by Helena Vieira da Silva to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s

PARIS.- Sotheby’s Contemporary Art sale in Paris on June 2/3 includes 142 lots with a total estimated value of €7.3-10m. The Evening Sale on June 2 features major works by Vieira da Silva, Erró, Jacques Villeglé, Nicolas de Staël, Pierre Soulages and Robert Indiana. The Day Sale on June 3 includes works by Serge Poliakoff, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, Yves Klein and François-Xavier Lalanne. Helena Vieira da Silva’s exceptionally large painting L’Hiver is a brilliant impressionist composition of a city [...]