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Magritte, Miro and More Picasso: Christie’s – Art of the Surreal (London)

February 28, 2018
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Magritte’s Le groupe silencieux

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Picasso’s Figure

On the evening of February 28, Christie’s also presented their Art of the Surreal. Taking top honors here was …. drum roll please … Picasso! His painting titled Figure (a 26 x 19 inch work created on February 2, 1930 … only took him one day) brought in £8.33M ($11.54M – est. £3-5M).  In second we had Magritte’s Le groupe silencieux at £7.21M ($9.98M – est. £6.5-9.5M) and in third we saw Miro’s Painting (another creative title) at £3.6M ($4.99M – est. £2-3M). Rounding out the top 5 were two additional Magritte’s – L’oasis at £3.13M ($4.3M – est. £1.4-2M) and Les signes du soir which made £1.8M ($2.5M – est. £1.5-2.5M).

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Miro’s Painting

The sale featured 34 works, of which 25 sold (73.5%) and the total take was £35.73M ($49.47M) … the low end of their estimate range was £28.45M. A couple of the more interesting statistics were: the top 5 works (20% of the sold lots) accounted for £24.03M, or 67.25% of the sale’s total; while the top 10 brought in £30.26M, or 84.6% of the sale’s total.

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