The 100%-sold 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Imp꧑ressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale totaled $141.1 million, led by a $25.9 million 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Giacometti’s Femme Leoni. The 1947 sculpture is a masterpiece of Giacometti’s post-war artistic production and one of the first tall, static female sculptures that, along with L’Homme qui marche, ca🌌me to symbolize Giacometti’s work for the remainder of his life.

Surrealist Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico saw a new auction record this evening with the sale of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Il Pomeriggio di Arianna (Ar🔯iadne’s Afternoꦓon) for $15,890,400. Together with Man Ray’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Black Widow (which realized $5,779,200), the artworks came to Sotheby’s from the same 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:private collection.

“Both masterpie🔥ces are the epitome of museum-quality paintings, andಞ provide a unique glimpse into the profound early output of these two visionary artists,” notes Lisa Dennison, Sotheby’s Chairman, Americas. “Each work showcases the hallmarks of the artist, from the beguiling and enigmatic vistas of de Chirico to Man Ray’s experimentation with perspective and abstraction. Together, the works encapsulate the apex of Modernism in Europe and New York.”

Additional highlights from the auction included Vincent van Gogh’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Fleurs dans un verre, which sold for $16,235,100 and René Magritte’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:L’ovation, which sold for $14,052,000.

The Collection of actress and philanthropist 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Sandra Moss was led by René Magritte’s dreamscape 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Rêverie de Monsieur James, which sold for $5,089,800. Pierre Bonnard’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:La Chevelure d'or realized 4,255,000, and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Édouard Vuillard Madame Vuillard lisant le journal achieved $625,000; both artworks are from the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Collection of Ambassador and Mrs🍸. Felix♊ Rohatyn.

Four artworks from the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Brooklyn Museum – including Claude Monet’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Les Îles à Port-Villez, sold for $4,618,000 – realiz♋ed $7.2 million in all; proceeds from the sale will be used to support the museum’s collections.

The evening of marquee auctions began with a $142.8 million 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Contemporary Art auction led by strong showings for m🌱asterpieces of ♔1950s Italian design.

Leading the evening’s Contemporary auction was a trio of Alfa Romeo concept cars: the Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 5, Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 7 and Alfa Romeo B.🍃A.T. 9D. Individuallyℱ, each of the B.A.T.s is among the most important ဣautomotive concepts ever built. These early 1950s masterworks, penned by Franco Scaglione and executed by Turin, Italy’s Carrozzeria Bertone, pioneered automotive aerodynamics while reasserting the primacy of Italian industrial design in the wake of World War II. The trio realized $14.8 million – a first in Contemporary Art Evening auction history.

Also in a first for a Contemporary Art Evening auction, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Important and Unique Dining Table eclipsed an auction record propelled by a three-continent bidding battle, selling for $6.2 million, a record for not only the artist but for ♔any work of Italian design. The exquisite table came from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Two important works from the pivotal final years of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s extraordinary life, Black and Jazz, drew prolonged bidding, hammering down at $8,134,650 and $6,928,200 respectively, above their high estimates of $4-6 million. Coming from the esteemed collection of the late Enrico Navarra, gallerist and editor of the celebrated monograph on the artist, the works each feature examples of Basquiat’s most iconic motifs and represent his radical multi-media approach to artmaking.