SOTHEBY'S L ONDON A U C TION RE S U LT S AT A GLANCE
Surge of new collectors propels year-on-year increase in sales:
IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART CONTEMPORARY ART OLD MASTERS
visitors to New
Bond Street galleries over the Summer Season
▲11%
increase in
total participants this season
▲30%
increase in new
buyers seen at Sotheby's
▲8%
increase in number
of countries from which buyers came this season
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HIGHEST TOTAL FOR A SALE IN THIS CATEGORY THIS SEASON
HIGHEST TOTAL FOR A SALE IN THIS CATEGORY THIS SEASON
HIGHEST TOTAL FOR A SALE IN THIS CATEGORY THIS SEASON
China▲51%
increase in spend
by Chinese buyers
▲35%
increase in number
of Chinese buyers
TOP LOT OF THE ENTIRE LONDON
SUMMER SALE SEASON
TOP LOT IN THE CATEGORY THIS SEASON TOP LOT IN THE CATEGORY THIS SEASON
▲40%
rise in value compared to last year's
equivalent sales
▲20%
increase in geographical reach
▲30%
rise in value compared to last year's
equivalent sales
20%of buyers were new to this category
DOUBLEthe number of buyers from Asia
▲18%
increase in buyers from Russia
Significant growth in online transactions driven by Sotheby's digital innovations:
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AN UNPRECEDENTED 11 LOTS SOLD FOR PRICES OVER £10 MILLION ACROSS THIS SEASON'S SALES
▲28%
increase in
online bidders
▲45%
increase in
number of lots purchased online
▲35%
increase in value
spent by online buyers in 2015 YTD
IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART
London | 24-25 June 2015
£207.8 million Series Total
• Evening Sale: £178.6m
• Day Sale: £29.1m
• Four auction records established
CONTEMPORARY ART
London | 1-2 July 2015
£148 million Series TotalSOTHEBY'S HIGHEST EVER TOTAL FOR A SALE SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN LONDON
• Evening Sale: £130.4m
• Day Sale: £17.6m
• Three artist records established
OLD MASTERS WEEK
London | 8-9 July 2015
£64.1 million Series Total
• Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale: £39.3m
• Old Master & British Paintings Day Sale: £3.4m
• Old Master Drawings: £4.7m
• Treasures: £12m
• Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art: £4.7m
• Nine artist records established
Highlights:
• Gustav Klimt's 1902 Portrait of Gertrud Loew - Gertha Felsőványi sold for £24.8m - the highest price of the entire London summer sale season
• Suprematism, 18th Construction (1915), an extremely rare work by Kazimir Malevich, made £21.4m
• The first version of Edgar Manet's famous Le Bar aux
Folies-Bergère (1881) fetched £16.9m
Highlights:
• Andy Warhol's landmark first 'dollar' painting, One Dollar
Bill (Silver Certificate), hand-painted in 1962, sold for
£20.9m - the highest price for a work of Contemporary art sold across all auction houses this season
• Two major self-portraits by Francis Bacon sold for a combined total of £30m. Never before offered at auction, Self-Portrait (1975) realised £15.3m; Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1980) fetched £14.7m
• Gerhard Richter's A B, Brick Tower (1987) sold for £14.1m
Highlights:
Old Master & British Paintings
• Lucas Cranach the Elder's The Bocca della Verità, The Mouth of Truth sold for £9.3m - a new record for the artist at auction and highest price of Old Masters Week at any auction house
• Ferdinand Bol's Portrait of a Boy (1652), from the Collections of Castle Howard, realised £5.2m, a new record for the artist at auction
Treasures
• A monumental 1st Century B.C. quartz granite vase made for Emperor Nero's Palace, from the Collections for Castle Howard, sold for £1.09m
Press Contacts: LONDON
Mitzi Mina
+44 207 293 5169
Mitzi.Mina@sothebys.com
NEW YORK Lauren Gioia
+1 212 606 7176
Lauren.Gioia@sothebys.com
HONG KONG Winnie Tang
+852 2822 8129
Winnie.Tang@sothebys.com
Old Master Drawings
• An exceptional late drawing by Goya, A French Soldier with a Drinking Companion, circa 1826, sold for £725,000
Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
• Produced by the fabled workshop of Baldassare Ubriachi in around 1400, Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ sold for £941,000
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