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2005 onwards
This page highlights some landmarks in the sale of old
master paintings, stamps, manuscripts, furniture and other
collectibles since 2004.
It covers -
2005
Ten Thousand Mile Landscape (1968) by Chang Ta-chien
- £5m
Ming jar - £15.7m
Child with a Toy Hand Grenade, Central Park
(1962) photograph by Diane Arbus - US$0.41m
Sizilianerin mit grünem Shawl (1912) by
Alexej Jawlensky - US$5.16m
pickled shark by Damien Hirst - US$8m (Steven Cohen)
Cache-Cache (1873) by Berthe Morisot - US$4.6m
Yellow Nude (1907) watercolour by Picasso - US$12.5m
(Olivier Berggruen)
Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' (1918) stamp - US$2.7m
Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi - US$27.45m
'Wenlok Tankard' - £750,000
The Bucintoro at the Molo, Venice, on Ascension Day
(1754) by Canaletto - £11.4m
View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the
Rialto by Canaletto - £18.6m
ivory silk coat (1914) by Paul Poiret - US$168,500
La Blanchisseuse (1886) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- £12.6m
Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. (1967) by Diane
Arbus - US$0.47m
John Murray archive - £31.2m (National Library of
Scotland)
Kindred Spirits (1849) by Asher Durand - US$35m
(Alice Walton)
La nuit (1902) sculpture by Aristide Maillol-
US$2.8m
Macclesfield Psalter - US$3.2m
Head of St Joseph by Andrea del Sarto - US$11.8m
Le Grand Canal (1908) by Monet - US$11.5m
Yuan Dynasty blue and white jar - £15.6m
Norman Mailer literary archive - US$2.5m (Uni of Texas)
Femme au grand chapeau (1906) by Kees Van Dongen
- £5m
first edition of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium
coelestium (1543) - £0.66m
Young Garden (Rhythms) (1927) by Paul Klee -
US$2.8m
Les Constructeurs (1921) by Leger - US$4.8m
Guyuexuan 'Pheasant' vase - US$14.8m
self portrait by Max Beckman - US$16.8m
Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol - US$12.6m
Red Haired Man on a Chair (1962) by Lucian Freud
- £4.1m
first edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema naturae
(1735) - £0.28m
Cubi XXVIII (1965) by David Smith - US$23.8m
Fabergé Gold, Gilded Silver and Translucent Desk
Clock - US$1.24m
Fabergé Gold Cigarette Box - US$1.02m
Beaten Track by Rosalie Gascoigne - $0.37m
Homage to Matisse (1954) by Rothko - US$22.4m
dedication copy of Luca Pacioli's Somma di aritmetica
geometrica proporzioni e proporzionalita (1494) -
£0.53m
Louis XVI Ebony Bureau Plat & Cartonnier (1770) attributed
to Joseph Baumhauer - US$4.7m
Madonna (1895) lithograph by Munch - €0.635m
Safavid 'Animal & Tree' Carpet - US$2.03m
2006
Summer Day (1904) by Edvard Munch - £6.2m
'Borromeo Madonna' (1450) terracotta by Donatello - US$4.5m
Le Boeuf Écorché (1924) by Chaim
Soutine - £7.8m
L'Oiseau au Plumage Deploye Vole vers l'Arbre Argente
by Joan Miro - US$10.2m
Deux Femmes (1902) by Paul Gauguin - £12.33m
Flowers in a Terracotta Pot by Jan van Huysum
- US$7.29m
George Washington at Princeton (1779) by Charles
Willson Peale - US$21.2m
Les Rameurs (1912) by Goncharova - £1.2m
The Peaceable Kingdom (1847) by Edward Hicks
- US$3.15m
Oberon & Titania on a Lily watercolor by
William Blake - US$0.52m
Study From Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez
by Francis Bacon (1959) - £5.26m
Hot Wind (1889) by Conder - $936,000
Man in a String Chair (1988) by Lucian Freud
- £4.15m
Elogio de la Arquitectura IV sculpture (1990)
by Eduardo Chillida - £1.24m
Tree on Primrose Hill by Frank Auerbach - £433,600
Ein Roter (1966) by Georg Baselitz - £1.24m
New Atlantis (1933) by De Maistre - $630,000
Coenwulf gold coin (c821) - £357,832 (British Museum)
The Pond-Moonlight (1904) photograph by Edward
Steichen - US$2.9m
An Afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens by Adolph
Menzel - £3.2m
Opus 361 by Robert Klippel - $0.55m
Giudecca, La Donna della Salute & San Giorgio
by JMW Turner - US$35.9m
The Bar (1954) by John Brack - $3.12m
L'Arlesienne, Madame Ginoux (1890) by van Gogh
- US$40.3m
The Rest (1932) by Picasso - US$34.7m
Pfeile by Kandinsky - US$3.8m
Large Four Piece Reclining Figure sculpture by
Moore - US$5m
Reclining Figure sculpture by Moore - US$3.6m
Death of the Strong Wicked Man (1805) watercolour
by Blake - US$1.5m
Dora Maar With Cat (1941) by Picasso - sold for
$95.2 m
Beach Scene Nuns Nurse photo by John Baldessari
- US$744,000
baseball signed (1961) by Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe
- US$191,200
Untitled, 1993 (93-1 Ballantine) by Donald Judd
- US$2.7m
Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (1962) by Andy
Warhol - US$11.7m
Two Women (Study for Clamdigger) (1961) by de
Kooning - US$5.7m
Aqualung (1985) by Koons - US$4.6m
Away from the Flock, Divided (lamb in formaldehyde)
by Hirst - US$3.3m
Sinking Sun (1964) by Lichtenstein - US$15.6m
Hongwu period Ming vase - £5.3m
Figure with Rays of Light (Arctic Group III)
by Lawren Harris - C$1.1m
The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise (watercolour)
by JMW Turner - £5.8m
four US Revolutionary War battle flags - US$17.3m
Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) by Klimt - US$135m
Herbstsonne (1914) by Schiele - £11.76m
The Splash (1966) by David Hockney - £2.92m
Jeanne Hebuterne Au Chapeau (1919) by Modigliani
- £16.36m
False Start (1959) by Johns - US$80m
six-magnum case of 1945 Château Mouton Rothschild
- US$0.34m
Police Gazette (1955) by de Kooning - US$63.5m
No. 5, 1948 (1948) by Pollock - US$140m
Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) by Klimt - US$87.9m
Birch Forest (1903) by Klimt - US$40.3m
Houses at Unterach on the Attersee (1916) by
Klimt - US$31m
Man with an Axe (1891) by Gauguin - US$40.3m
Breaking Home Ties (1954) by Rockwell - US$15.4m
The Gross Clinic (1875) by Eakins - US$68m
Woman III (1953) by de Kooning - US$137.5m
Audrey Hepburn's LBD from Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961) - £467,200
2007
Saint James the Greater (1661) by Rembrandt -
US$25.8m
White Canoe (1991) by Peter Doig - £5.7m
Camden Theatre in the Rain (1977) by Auerbach
- £1.9m
Les maisons dans les arbres (1914) by Leger -
£6.2m
99 Cent II, Diptych (2001) by Andreas Gursky
- £1.7m
Les Deux Soeurs by Renoir - £6.8m
Study for Portrait II (1956) by Bacon - £14m
L'Homme au Foulard Rouge (1921) by Soutine -
£8.75m
La Foire aux Oignons (1907) by Dufy - £4.0m
Brigitte Bardot (1974) by Warhol - US$10.6m
Le Loing à Moret, en été
(1891) by Sisley - £2.9m
Saxton Atlas of England & Wales (1590) - £669,600
John Bythesea's Victoria Cross (1857) - £155,000
Flirtation (1954) by Albert Tucker - $840,000
Still Life with Green Melon (1902) by Cézanne
- US$25.5m
Jesuiten III (1915) by Lyonel Feininger - US$23.2m
Man Walking in the Morning Sun (1950) by Giacometti
- US$7.4m
Velocità d’automobile + Luci (1913) by Giacomo
Balla - US$3.5m
White Center (Yellow, Pink & Lavender on Rose)
(1950) by Rothko - US$72.8m
Study From Innocent X (1962) by Bacon - US$52.6m
Green Car Crash (1963) by Warhol - US$71.7m
Untitled I (1981) by De Kooning - US$18m
Stack (1977) by Donald Judd - US$9.8m
Lemon Marilyn (1962) by Warhol - US$28m
Earth's Creation (1995) by Kngwarreye - $1.056m
Pine Tree & Red House, Winter (1924) by Lawren
Harris - C$2.87m
Napoleon's sword (1800) - £3.2
The Olgas For Ernest Giles (1985) by Whiteley
- $3.48m
A City Bus Station (1986) by Smart - $900,000
John Batman Meets Eliza Callaghan by Tucker -
$840,000
Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael - £18.5m
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