Christie's London Surrealist Sale Tops £130 Million

Key facts

• Christie's London evening sales on March 5, 2025, totaled over £130 million.
• 94% of lots sold by lot, 97% by value.
• 20th/21st Century Evening Sale: £82.2 million, 72% of lots first time at auction.
• Francis Bacon works sold together for £6.6 million.
• Tamara De Lempicka set a new auction record for a male portrait at £6.6 million.
• Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait de Lunia Czechowska sold for £6.2 million.
• Michael Andrews set a new artist record at £6 million.
• Egon Schiele's Knabe in Matrosenanzug sold for £3.3 million under Nazi restitution.
• Danielle Mckinney set a new auction record at £264,600.
• Sanya Kantarovsky's The House of the Spider sold for £289,800.
• The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale totaled £48 million.
• René Magritte's La reconnaissance infinie sold for £10.3 million.
• Paul Delvaux's La ville endormie sold for £6.1 million (estimate £1.2-1.8 million).
• Paul Delvaux's Les belles de nuit sold for £4.4 million (estimate £500,000-1 million).
• Jean (Hans) Arp set a new record for a painted relief at £3.4 million.
• Giorgio de Chirico's Gli archeologi sold for £378,000.