Pablo Picasso: “Fillette à la corbeille fleurie”, 1905
Sold for $115,000,000.
Rockefeller collection sells for $646 million at Christie’s Christie’s first sale in the series from the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller totaled $646,133,594 / £476,148,559 / €541,380,911, exceeding the collection estimate by $100 million.]]>
May 9th 2018, source: Christie’s / theartwolf
The top lots of the sale were Picasso’s, “Fillette à la corbeille fleurie”, which realized $115,000,000, Monet’s “Nymphéas en fleur”, which totaled $84,687,500, and Matisse’s “Odalisque couchée aux magnolias”, which sold for $80,750,000.
Another Monet, “Extérieur de la gare Saint-Lazare, effet de soleil” (arguably the most important painting in the collection) sold for $32,937,500. Georges Seurat’s ‘La rade de Grandcamp (Le port de Grandcamp)’ auctioned for $34,062,500. Paul Gauguin’s ‘La Vague’ (described by Christie’s as “one of the most original seascapes in Western art”) fetched $35,187,500.
In total, 7 works sold above $30 million, and 7 world auction artist records were set for Monet, Matisse, Corot, Delacroix, Seguin, Morandi and Redon. Collectors from Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia participated in the sales, representing 34 different countries.
Quote from Marc Porter, Chairman of Christie’s Americas, “The twin goals of education and philanthropy have driven this project and we have been so gratified with the engagement from global audiences from the moment we launched the sale in Hong Kong last November. The Rockefeller legacy has resonated strongly and we are thrilled with the results achieved for the first evening in this series of sales, already over our expectations. With new price levels set for Monet, Matisse, Corot, and others, the bidding was testament to the taste, connoisseurship and standing of the Rockefeller family combined with a shared goal to achieve a great result for the charitable beneficiaries of the sale. We continue tomorrow.”
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