// Focus on the email input box prefix = 'artnet_newsletter_'; // Extends jQuery with a function to serialize to JSON closeSignupBar(); . Event Date28 June 2023 | Live auction 21886, The British painters who embraced Impressionism, Basquiats Untitled (Pablo Picasso), from 1984: a bold tribute from one 20th-century titan to another, What were loving this summer: art books and exhibitions hand-picked by our specialists, Howard Hodgkin: My entire life is in my paintings, Artist Ahmed Mater: When you go to Mecca, its as if you were inside a huge magnetic field, Gerhard Richter on his landscape photo-paintings: I am seeking something quite specific, Christies Selfhood exhibition: We want to bring together artists who use art to explore the unique experience of being human, Signacs vision of Saint-Tropez and Basquiats Picasso portrait lead 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale, Virtual tour: 20th/21st Century Art at Christies London. Eventually an intense bidding war between two in-room parties developed. if (typeof ouibounce !== 'undefined') { Nathan suggests American buyers in particular are "spent out" after the "weight of the New York auctions" last month. function addCss(fileName) { if (window.jQuery) { Christie's 20/21 (20th/21st Century) London Evening Sale with The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale. 37 x 24 3/8 in (94.6 x 61.9 cm). o[this.name] = [o[this.name]]; } Vivienne Chow, June 28, 2023 20th/21st Century London Evening Sale at Christies, London, June 28, 2023. A $104 million record for a Gustav Klimt painting topped a Sotheby's London Sale in June 2023,. The first is Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume from the famous Vues du Londres (Views . May 22, 2023, By Other collection highlights included Oscar Domnguezs Machine coudre lectro-sexuelle (1934-35), which sailed past its high estimate to realise a record 4,602,000; Yves Tanguys Le lourd palais from 1930, which more than doubled its low estimate at 819,000; and Wolfgang Paalens 1938 Taches solaires, setting another artist record of 756,000. h = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientHeight, window.innerHeight || 0), //don't run this function if the user has already triggered the modal by leaving the viewport Of the 66 lots offered at the two-and-a-half-hour event at the houses King Street premise, 61 lots, or 92 percent, found buyers. A gold porcelain sculpture by Louise Bourgeois hammered for 450,000 against a low estimate of 800,000; Howard Hodgkins The Spectator (1984-87) went for 590,000 (est 800,000-1.2m); and an oil and graphite work on canvas by Cy Twombly sold for 1.2m against a 2m low estimate. The collection also included important works by leading women artists of the Surrealist movement, among them Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, who both sought refuge in Mexico in the early 1940s following the outbreak of war in Europe. + '