Alberto Giacometti: Chariot
Sold for $101 Million / £63.1 Million
Vincent van Gogh
“Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies”, 1890
Sold for $61.8 Million / £38.6 Million
$101 million Giacometti tops Sotheby’s auction Sotheby’s auction of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 4 November 2014 totalled $422.1 million / £263.9 million, highlighted by Giacometti’s ‘Chariot’, sold for $101 million.]]>
November 5, 2014, source: Sotheby’s
Simon Shaw, Co-Head of Sotheby’s Worldwide Impressionist &Modern Art Department, commented: “Tonight’s historic results bookend an exceptional year forImpressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby’s – our fourth consecutive year as leaders in this market. Weopened this February with our best ever sale in London, and tonight set a new benchmark for anyauction in the Company’s 270-year history. We were particularly thrilled to see two sculpturescommand prices commensurate with the most coveted paintings, with Giacometti’s masterfulChariot becoming the second sculpture to cross the $100 million threshold. Participation in tonight’ssales came from 40 countries, with the highest proportions coming from the United States, Europeand of course Asia, the new home of Van Gogh’s stunning Still Life.”
Alberto Giacometti’s legendary “Chariot” is the second sculpture in auction history to cross$100 million (the record was set at Sotheby’s London in February 2010 by the artist’s’L’homme qui marche I’, which sold for $104.3 million), achieving $100,965,000.
Amedeo Modigliani’s totemic goddess “Tête” established a new world auction record for theartist, selling for $70,725,000. Never before offered at auction, the work is one of few examples from the series remaining inprivate hands.
Vincent van Gogh’s “Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies” fetched $61,765,000, markinga new auction record for any still life by the artist, as well as the highest auction price for VanGogh since 1998. This painting was one of the few works Van Gogh sold during his lifetime.
Three works by Claude Monet from a Private American Collection totaled $61.9 million, led by”Alice Hoschedé au jardin” from 1881 that achieved $33,765,000 million — a new auctionrecord for a portrait by the artist.
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