Picasso leads Sotheby's London auction with £13.7m, records for Adnan and Yamaguchi

Key facts

• Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now held on March 6, 2024 in London
• 70 lots offered spanning Impressionism to contemporary art
• Total sale: £99.7 million
• Expected aggregate for three London sales: £321 million (down 10% from 2023, from £461 million in 2022)
• Top lot: Pablo Picasso's 'Homme à la pipe' (1968) sold for £13.7 million
• Claude Monet's 'Arbres au bord de l’eau, printemps à Giverny' sold for £7,748,300
• Paul Signac's 'Saint-Tropez. Le rayon vert' sold for £7,748,300 (not seen at market since 1958)
• Francis Bacon's 'Study of George Dyer' (1970) sold for £6.8 million (estimate £5-7 million)
• René Magritte's 'Composition on a sea shore' sold for £3.4 million (estimate £1.8-2.5 million)
• Jean Dubuffet's 'Le Guilleret' (1961) from George and Mary Bloch collection sold for £2.2 million
• Frank Auerbach's 'Head of E.O.W. II' sold for £4 million (double estimate)
• Chaïm Soutine's 'Maisons à Céret' sold for over £1 million (estimate £600,000-800,000)
• Etel Adnan's 'Untitled' set a new auction record at £444,500 (estimate £150,000-200,000)
• Takako Yamaguchi's 'Catherine and Midnight' set a new auction record at £889,000 (double estimate)
• Victor Man's 'The Chandler' sold for £406,400 (estimate £60,000-80,000)
• Salvo's 'Senza titolo' (1988) sold for £381,000 (estimate £100,000-150,000)
• Leonor Fini's 'L’envers d’une géographie' sold for £571,500 (estimate £300,000-400,000)
• Françoise Gilot's 'Portrait de Geneviève avec un collier de colombes' (1944) from Arianna Huffington collection sold for £724,000 (estimate £150,000-200,000)
• Lucio Fontana's 'Concetto Spaziale' (1956) unsold
• Jadé Fadojutimi's 'A Sheltered Overthought' (2019) sold online for £508,000 (estimate £400,000-600,000)
• Claudia Dwek, Chairman Contemporary Art Europe, secured winning bid for Salvo's work