Christie's London auctions kick off Frieze Week with mixed results

Key facts

• Christie's London held double evening sale 'Masterpieces of Design and Photography' and 'Up Close' in October 2017.
• Sale kicked off Frieze Art Fair week in London.
• Design and photography auction paired design objects with photographs from 1865 onward.
• Only 8 of 35 lots sold above high estimates in design and photography auction.
• Robert Mapplethorpe's 'Self-Portrait' sold for £450,000, a record for the photographer.
• Irving Penn's 'Cottage Tulip, Sorbet' sold for £210,000 against £80,000 high estimate.
• Yoichi Ohira's 'Colata di Lava n.16' sold for £130,000 against £50,000 estimate.
• Ingo Maurer's 'Porca Miseria' doubled high estimate at £95,000.
• Gilbert and George's 'Red Morning (Hell)' sold for £700,000, below £800,000 low estimate.
• Marc Newson's 'Lockheed Lounge' sold for £1.3 million within estimate range.
• Up Close auction inspired by Ernst Beyeler's 'Petits Formats' exhibitions.
• Andy Warhol's 'Coke Bottle' (1962, 28x15 cm) sold for £1.6 million, below £1.8 million low estimate.
• Piero Manzoni's 'Achrome' doubled estimate at £320,000.
• Roman Opalka work sold for £60,000.
• Alberto Burri's 'Sacco e verde' sold for £230,000.
• Alighiero Boetti's 'Sciogliersi come neve al sole' sold for £130,000.
• Cy Twombly's 'Untitled' sold for £430,000.
• Alberto Giacometti's 'Homme (Apollon)' sold for £2.9 million against £1.2 million high estimate.
• Lucio Fontana's 'Concetto Spaziale, Attesa' works sold for £410,000 and £320,000.
• Lucian Freud's 'Pluto' sold for £750,000.
• Marc Chagall's 'Au cirque' sold for £420,000, below £450,000 low estimate.
• Picasso's 'La fenetre de l'atelier' sold at low estimate of £700,000.
• Giorgio Morandi's 'Fiori' unsold at £110,000.
• Design & Photography auction: 86% sold by lot, 93% by value.
• Up Close auction: 94% sold by lot, 99% by value.