The most expensive lot of the two evening auctions should Claude Monet

Sotheby's scored with 40 million in the second highest price ever for a work of Monet was paid at auction: Claude Monet (1840-1926): "Nympha", 1906, oil on canvas, 88 5 x 100 cm (Sotheby's) STADTGESPRCH
With Monet's "Nympha" at Sotheby's and Giacometti's "La Main" at Christie's London tradition Huser already ensured in advance for a lot of attention. The results of the evening sale on 23 and 24 June with works of Impressionist and Modern Classic SURPRISED yet.
The most expensive lot of the two evening auctions should Claude Monet's "Nympha" (1906) are. Sotheby's had protected the square water lilies painting at 20 to 30 million pounds (25 to 38 million euros) and auctioned it for 31.7 million pounds (about 40 million euros), hurley auctions including Kuferprmie.
About ten minutes, two telephone hurley auctions bidders boosted each other up in steps of 250 000 pounds until finally the hammer fell. The price for the top lot, the second highest so far for a Monet, shows that "realistic estimates are paying" as Sotheby's expert Helena Newman said at the auction following. The most recently in 2000 for $ 21 million-selling work remained hurley auctions nmlich four years ago unsold, as rival Christie's had it protected hurley auctions to 30 to 40 million pounds.
"Nympha" had, as well as the second top lot, Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Red, Blue and Grey", a price guarantee of the auction house, hurley auctions so could not remain unsold. And like the Monet also scored the 1927 resulting abstract work, which first came under the hammer, with 15.2 million pounds (19 million euros) an excellent price. Here again was Kevin Ching, CEO of Sotheby's Asia, ttig on the phone, which shows that buyers from Asia krftig get involved hurley auctions today. But as the Monet he lost this plant to a customer of his colleague David Norman, head of the department Impressionism.
Some outstanding examples of German Expressionism were admitted, among other things, hurley auctions from the estate of the legendary Swiss gallery in January Krugier. They showed that even extremely low Schtzwerte can lead to good prices. Fr Alexei von Jawlensky's "Woman hurley auctions with head bandage" (1909) had Krugier paid more than 700,000 pounds, now it was protected at 250,000 to 350,000 pounds, but still reached 662,000 pounds hurley auctions (828,000 euros), and Max Beckmann's "Still Life with Gramophone and Irises" (1924), which had the gallery in 2007 cost $ 7.3 million, was now protected to 1.8 to 2 million pounds and changed for 4.8 million pounds (6 million euros) to the owner. Top lot of the Krugier collection was Wassily Kandinsky's almost abstract "Autumn Landscape" (1911). The image wunderschne climbed 5.5 million pounds (6.9 million euros) still over the top Schtzwert.
Sotheby's scored for its 40 lots, of which only four remain unsold, nearly 122 million pounds (153 million euros) and was happy with the result. On the next evening followed rival Christie's and one has already almost got used to it, that this usually is in the lead. Not this evening. A third of the consigned 60 lots did not reach the reserve price, much of what remained was sold under the Schtzpreis, and so the tang was 85.7 million pounds (107 million euros), less than the lower Sch assessed value, which does not even contains the Kuferprmie, back to results far below expectations.
One can explain the weak performance of Christie's only with the inferior quality of many of the submitted works to aggressive Schtzpreisen hurley auctions as a deterrent to buyers. Sotheby's had sold very well two works by Alberto Giacometti, a sculpture and a Bestseller! Previous evening, Christie's offered eight of his works, seven sculptures and a Bestseller!, Of whom half did not reach the reserve price and zurckging. In the unusual bronze sculpture "La Main" (1947), which was estimated at 10 to 15 million pounds, the bidding came to a standstill at 9.5 million. "The whole town talked about the work, but in the evening no drckte from," said Impressionism Chef Jay Vince after the auction.
Star of the evening at Christie's was the "Yes - What - Image" (1920) by Kurt Schwitters, one of the few early Merz-relief images of the Dadaists, which is not in possession of a museum. The experts admitted that they did not really know how to estimate the rarity. They agreed to 4-6 million pounds, more than three times the previous Hchstpreises for the artist. The hammer fell at 12.4 million pounds (15.5 million euros), including Prmie are the 13.9 million pounds (17.4 million euros).
The successful work comes from the collection of Viktor and Marianne Langen, were taken from the nine plants. Three remained unsold, including the Bestseller! "Deux J