In addition to Man Ray, who set both a record for the artist and for the artist’s jewellery, works by Richard Humphry, Dorothea Tanning, Wiliam Nelson Copley, Noma Copley and Gilbert & George also set auction records. Idiomatically, the work’s title translates to ‘A Different Version of Events’ - a phrase which speaks to how the Surrealists themselves sought to reinterpret the world around them. The second highest price was achieved was Magritte’s L’autre son de cloche, an enigmatic work from 1951 that draws the puzzled viewer into his poetic landscape, which brought in $10,122,500. Now, almost 70 years later, the success of this single-owner live sale is testament both to her eye, and the friendships she formed with these outstanding artists. Roz and Mel’s collection began in 1955, when William and Noma Copley, patrons of the arts and artists themselves, generously gave Roz their René Magritte gouache, Eloge de la dialectique(1948), as a birthday present. Rosalind, known as Roz, first encountered the piece while visiting the artist’s 1962 retrospective as a guest of Man Ray himself. The top lot of the sale was Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres, from 1924, which achieved $12,412,500 - a record for the artist and the highest price ever realised for a photograph at auction. On 14 May with the Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs achieved $42,330,074, selling 92 per cent by lot and 182 per cent above the low estimate. The Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs
The 1909 bronze not only marks the culmination of an important series of portraits of the artist’s first love but also stands as a key moment in the development of Cubism. It was sold by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to benefit the Acquisition Fund.
Depicting an expansive vista that spans a vivid green wheatfield, with rows of olive trees and the soaring peaks of the Alpilles in the background, this landscape embodies both the signature subjects as well as the radical, expressive handling that Van Gogh developed in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, his home for a year in 1889-1890.Įxceptional works, including Warhol’s Skull (1976), Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XXI (1977), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s portrait of Berthe Morisot and Julie Manet and a trio of paintings by Monet, also brought in eight-digit figures.Īmong these impressive results was Picasso’s first major sculpture, Tête de femme (Fernande), which achieved $48,480,000, a record for the medium by the artist. The second highest price of the sale was $51,915,000, brought in by Van Gogh’s Champs près des Alpilles (1889). 3.7 million viewers worldwide have also logged on to enjoy the action virtually. The evening sales reached a combined total of $1,264,544,690, with registered bidders across the globe.
The last lot of the night marked the debut of the iconic Raptor at auction: the most complete Deinonychus skeleton ever found sold for $12,412,500. The 20th Century Evening Sale immediately followed, realising an impressive $468,174,000, selling 119 per cent above the low estimate and 98 per cent by lot. Bass totalled $363,087,500, selling 129 per cent above the low estimate. Thursday evening opened with a white glove sale hammered in by auctioneer and Co-Chairman of the Impressionist and Modern Art department, Adrien Meyer. Led by auctioneer Georgina Hilton, Head of Classic Art, Asia Pacific, the sale totalled $103,064,200, selling 100 per by lot and 114 per cent above the low estimate. The 21st Century Evening Sale took place the following evening, Tuesday 10 May. The sale concluded with auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen, Christie’s Global President, hammering down Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn for a record $195,040,000, making it the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at auction. The first sale of the week totalled $317,806,490, selling 94 per cent by lot and 98 per cent by value. On 9 May, Christie’s 20th/21st Century sale week in New York commenced with The Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann Evening Sale.
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