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Auction Name
Modern and Contemporary Discoveries
Auction Date
07/08/2025 - 07/08/2025
Sale Number
#pf2565
Total Lots
45
Sold Lots
28
Lots Sold
62.22%
Unsold Lots
17
Total Sales (EUR)
650,621.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
405,700.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
606,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
653,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
954,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
68.20%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Andy Warhol

Margaret Krebs

1982 EUR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 EUR 254,000.00
15 Carlos Cruz-Diez

Physichromie ndeg1452

2006 EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 215,900.00
159 Niki de Saint-Phalle

L'arbre de vie - memoire de la liberte

1991 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 30,480.00
11 Hiroshi Sugimoto

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

2000 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,700.00
109 Marc Chagall

Les Amoureux dans le ciel

1986 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 10,795.00
188 Georges Rouault

Le blesse

after 1930. EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
38 Pierre Soulages

Eau-forte No 13 (Riviere XIII)

1957 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 9,525.00
98 Marc Chagall

Le paysan; and L'Artiste a la chevre (Two works)

1961 and 1984 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,525.00
246 Karl Lagerfeld

Portrait imaginaire du chevalier de Faublas

1996 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,890.00
116 Marc Chagall

Selbstbildnis mit Grimasse

1924-25 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 8,890.00
136 Pierre Soulages

Lithographie No. 31

1974 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,620.00
100 Marc Chagall

Le reve de l'ane

1968 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,350.00
103 Marc Chagall

Plate 13, from Arabian Nights

1948 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,350.00
96 Marc Chagall

Soleil aux amoureux

1968 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,350.00
114 Marc Chagall

Das Pferd mit dem Regenschirm; with Die Geigerin, Tanzerin mit Pferd and Die Liebenden mit dem Hahn

1926-44 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,715.00
67 Joan Miro

Quelques fleurs pour des amis

1964 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,715.00
127 Paul Gauguin

Etude d'un buste et de deux mains

circa 1899-1902 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,334.00
107 Marc Chagall

Trapeziste a l'oiseau

1967 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,334.00
112 Marc Chagall

Le Mariage

1968 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,080.00
102 Marc Chagall

Granada, from Paroles Peintes I

1962 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,080.00

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