{"id":56571,"date":"2025-05-20T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56571"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:42:11","slug":"the-2025-may-marquee-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 May Marquee Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56572\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56572\" class=\"wp-image-56572\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1-294x300.webp\" alt=\"A painting of boxes filled in with red, white, gray, black, or blue.\" width=\"250\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1-294x300.webp 294w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1-1002x1024.webp 1002w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1-768x785.webp 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1-1504x1536.webp 1504w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1-2005x2048.webp 2005w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black, and Blue<\/em> by Piet Mondrian<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The May Marquee sales at the major New York auction houses have concluded, with Christie\u2019s coming out on top in nearly every sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Christie\u2019s hosted six sales during the week: two modern, two Impressionist, and two contemporary. It all started with the Riggio collection. Leonard Riggio was the chairman of the bookstore chain Barnes &amp; Noble, acquiring the business in 1971. He is credited with transforming Barnes &amp; Noble from a single store on Fifth Avenue to a prolific chain with hundreds of locations. He passed away in August 2024, and his widow, Louise, made headlines in February when she consigned their art collection to Christie\u2019s. The relatively small auction of thirty-eight lots comprised a significant piece of Christie\u2019s revenue that week. It also featured the most expensive lot sold during the Marquee sales, Piet Mondrian\u2019s 1922 painting <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black, and Blue<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The work is very typical of the artist\u2019s \u201crevolutionary mature aesthetic<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and his exploration of neo-plasticism. This style is characterized by his use of straight lines and primary colors to create \u201can idealized pictorial form of pure equilibrium that would reintegrate a fundamental sense of beauty into life.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> While it fell short of its $50 million pre-sale estimate, it sold for $41 million (or $47.56 million w\/p), making it the third most expensive Mondrian painting ever sold at auction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Of the twelve lots that sold for over $10 million at both Christie\u2019s and Sotheby\u2019s, four came from the Riggio collection, including Alberto Giacometti\u2019s <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/img\/LotImages\/2015\/CKS\/2015_CKS_10378_0016_000(alberto_giacometti_femme_de_venise_v052246).jpg?mode=max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Femme de Venise I<\/span><\/a> <\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">($15 million hammer) and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/p-news-upload.storage.googleapis.com\/2025\/02\/RENE-MAGRITTE-Lempire-des-lumieres-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">one of Ren\u00e9 Magritte\u2019s <\/span><\/a><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/p-news-upload.storage.googleapis.com\/2025\/02\/RENE-MAGRITTE-Lempire-des-lumieres-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">L\u2019empire des lumi\u00e8res <\/span><\/a><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/p-news-upload.storage.googleapis.com\/2025\/02\/RENE-MAGRITTE-Lempire-des-lumieres-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">paintings<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> ($30 million hammer). With the Mondrian painting selling for under estimate and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/img\/LotImages\/2025\/NYR\/2025_NYR_24160_0025A_002(julio_gonzalez_forme_severe010728).jpg?mode=max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a Julio Gonzalez sculpture<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> failing to sell, the Riggio collection fell slightly short of expectations. It brought in $228.6 million against a pre-sale total estimate of $245.5 million. Of course, Christie was able to make up this difference with fees and premiums, bringing the total up to $271.9 million. The Riggio collection made up 39.8% of the combined total hammer prices of all six May Marquee sales hosted at Christie\u2019s New York that week. Adding the $181.2 million from the 20th Century evening sale immediately following the Riggio collection increases that percentage to 71.3%.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56553\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GiacomettiBust.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56553\" class=\"wp-image-56553 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GiacomettiBust-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract bronze bust of a man\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GiacomettiBust-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GiacomettiBust.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Grande t\u00eate mince<\/em> by Alberto Giacometti<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For Sotheby\u2019s, the Modern Evening sale on May 13th was somewhat disappointing given <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/sothebys-modern-evening-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the failure of the Alberto Giacometti sculpture <\/span><\/a><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/sothebys-modern-evening-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Grande t\u00eate mince<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, which specialists expected would sell for $70 million. This brought the sales total from its $230.2 million total minimum estimate down to $151.7 million. The most valuable lot to cross the block at Sotheby\u2019s that week would not appear until a couple of days later at their contemporary evening auction. There, an untitled 1981 work by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $13.7 million (or $16.4 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The four Marquee sales Sotheby\u2019s hosted that week <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">were expected<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to bring in a total of $422.1 million. However, because of the initial shortcomings with the Giacometti debacle, Sotheby\u2019s fell short at $355.2 million. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is not the only area where Sotheby\u2019s fell slightly short. Christie\u2019s specialists achieved a somewhat higher accuracy rate, with two hundred six of the five hundred sixty-four lots available across the six sales selling within their estimates, giving Christie a 36.5% accuracy rate. On the other hand, Sotheby\u2019s ended up with 33.7% having sold two hundred two of the five hundred ninety-nine lots within their estimates. Christie\u2019s also achieved a slightly higher sell-through rate of 87.1% compared to 84.3% at Sotheby\u2019s. At the end of the week, with fees and premiums included, Christie\u2019s made off with a monumental $693.1 million. In comparison, Sotheby\u2019s made $411.2 million, an equally impressive number, especially since they hosted two fewer sales in the same amount of time. Regardless, this was an 18% decrease from last year\u2019s May Marquee sales for Sotheby\u2019s, while Christie\u2019s saw a 23% increase.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May Marquee sales at the major New York auction houses have concluded, with Christie\u2019s coming out on top in nearly every sense. Christie\u2019s hosted six sales during the week: two modern, two Impressionist, and two contemporary. It all started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[384,224,926,351,634,197,272,207,20,117,416,15,429,120,11,9,85,606],"class_list":["post-56571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-19th-century-european","tag-20th-century-american-art","tag-20th-century-belgian-art","tag-20th-century-dutch","tag-20th-century-european-art","tag-20th-century-italian-art","tag-21st-century-american","tag-auction-news","tag-auction-results","tag-bronze","tag-christies","tag-comments-on-the-art-market","tag-contemporary-art","tag-modern-art","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-sculpture","tag-sothebys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The 2025 May Marquee Sales - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The May Marquee sales at the major New York auction houses have concluded, with Christie\u2019s coming out on top in nearly every sense.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The 2025 May Marquee Sales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The May Marquee sales at the major New York auction houses have concluded, with Christie\u2019s coming out on top in nearly every sense.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-20T16:55:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2506\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"The 2025 May Marquee Sales\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-20T16:55:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":679,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/the-2025-may-marquee-sales\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/PIET-MONDRIAN-Composition-with-Large-Red-Plane-Bluish-Gray-Yellow-Black-and-Blue-scaled-1.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"19th Century European\",\"20th Century American Art\",\"20th Century Belgian Art\",\"20th Century Dutch\",\"20th Century European Art\",\"20th Century Italian Art\",\"21st Century American\",\"Auction News\",\"Auction Results\",\"bronze\",\"christie's\",\"Comments on the Art Market\",\"Contemporary art\",\"Modern Art\",\"Rehs Contemporary - Art World News\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"Sculpture\",\"sotheby's\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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