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     landmarks 2005 -

This page highlights some landmarks in the sale of old master paintings, stamps, manuscripts, furniture and other collectibles since 2004.

It covers -

• 2005
• 2006

     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

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




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