Sotheby's and Christie's London Evening Sales Total £246.5 Million

Key facts

• Christie's London evening sale on March 6, 2018, totaled £137.5 million, a European record for the sector.
• Sotheby's London evening sale on March 7, 2018, totaled £109 million.
• Andy Warhol's six self-portraits sold for £19.9 million at Christie's.
• Jean-Michel Basquiat's Multiflavors sold for £10.5 million at Christie's.
• Peter Doig's Charley's Space sold for £9.5 million at Christie's.
• Peter Doig's The Architect's Hoe in Ravine sold for £13.2 million at Sotheby's.
• Gerhard Richter's Gelbgrun sold for £9.5 million at Sotheby's.
• Christopher Wool's Untitled (2007) sold for £9.1 million at Sotheby's.
• Mark Bradford set a record with Bear Running from the Shotgun at £3.8 million.
• Kelley Walker set a record with Black Star Press at £573,000.
• Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva set a record with L'Incendie I at £2 million.
• Lucio Fontana's Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1963) sold for £4.3 million at Sotheby's.
• Michelangelo Pistoletto's Amanti sold for £2.2 million at Sotheby's.
• Alberto Burri's Ferro T sold for £5 million at Christie's.
• Peter Halley set a record with Yellow Cell with Triple Conduit at £513,000.
• Jason Rhoades set a record with Down Under at £345,000.
• A series of ten Warhol Marilyn Monroe prints sold for £2.3 million at Sotheby's.
• Banksy's Bacchus at the seaside sold online for £550,000.
• Warhol's Birth of Venus was unsold at £3.6 million at Christie's.
• David Hockney's work was unsold at £4.5 million at Christie's.
• Three lots were withdrawn: Danh Vo's Alphabet, Ed Ruscha's Mount Something, and Calder's Three White Dots on Orange Stack.