LONDON.- Facts & Figures at a Glance:

• Sale total: £62,506,800 / $78,624,178 (est. £44.9 - 66.6 m / $56.5 - 83.8 m)

• 90% sold by lot

• Depth of bidding across price points and across geographies:

• Lisa Brice (6 bidders, including Asia), Picasso work on paper (5 bidders), Banksy (4 bidders, sold online), Max Ernst (6 bidders), Rodin Caryatide (5 bidders)

• Picasso oil on canvas and Freud sold to Asian collectors, Matisse also underbid by an Asian collector

• Over half of the offering never-before-seen at auction

• 6,000 visitors to the week-long exhibition

Top Lots from Across the Evening:

• After Embah by Lisa Brice achieved a record price for the artist at auction, selling for £5.4 m / $6.8 m after a 10-minute six-way bidding battle (est. £1-1.5 m), more than doubling the previous auction record for the artist set at Sotheby’s in New York in 2021.

• Yoshitomo Nara’s Cosmic Eyes (in the Milky Lake), one of the very first works by the artist to feature his mesmerising rainbow or starry eyes, saw extended bidding (10 minutes) among four collectors and made the top price of the night, at £9 m / $11.4 m (est. £6-8 m).

• Making its auction debut, Alberto Burri’s Sacco e Nero 3 - the finest and largest example from the artist’s Sacchi series to appear at auction in nearly 10 years - sold for £4.9 m / $6.2 m (est. £2.5-3.5 m).

• Pablo Picasso’s Buste de femme from 1953, last offered at auction over 40 years ago, sold to an Asian private collector for £4.3 m / $5.4 m (est. £4-6 m).

• Tête (recto): Tête (verso) a double-sided colourful work on paper from 1967, from the artist’s celebrated Musketeer series, was pursued by six bidders, who drove the final price to £647,700 / $814,709 (est. £350,000-450,000).

• Offered at auction for the first time in a decade, Vincent van Gogh’s Jardin public à Arles, a pen and ink drawing from September 1888, achieved £2.2 m / $2.8 m - an increase of 75% on the price it achieved when last sold at auction in 2015 (est. £2-3 m).

• La soirée familiale, one of the most important works by Édouard Vuillard from a amended decade in his practice, doubled its estimate to sell for £2.1 m / $2.6 m (est. £1-1.5 m).

• Roy Lichtenstein’s Peanut Butter Cup, from 1962, which was included in the artist’s first ever European exhibition at the famed Ileana Sonnabend gallery in Paris, where it was bought by John Kaldor, sold for £1 m / $1.3 m (est. £1-1.5 m).

• El Lissitzky’s Self-Portrait (The Constructor) achieved £889,000 / $1.1 m - second highest price for the artist at auction (est. £400,000-600,000).

British Artists at the Fore:

• Crude Oil (Vettriano), a rare, entirely hand-painted work by Banksy from the collection of Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist and founding member of blink-182, sold for £4.3 m / $5.4 m to a British private collector who was bidding online (est. £3-5 m).

• A portion of the funds will be donated by Mark and Skye Hoppus to two Los Angeles medical charities and The California Fire Foundation.

• Frank Auerbach’s From the Studios, painted at the pinnacle of Auerbach’s career, coinciding with his representation of Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1986, sold for £2.4 m / $3 m (est. £2-3 m).

• Flyda and Arvid, an important early drawing by Lucian Freud featuring a self-portrait and a portrait of the artist’s first wife, Kitty Garman, sold to an Asian private collector for £1.8 m / $2.2 m (est. £1.2-1.8 m).

• Red, Forged by Rachel Jones, who will have a major solo show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London in summer 2025, sold for £482,600 / $607,038 (est. £300,000-500,000).

Strength in Sculpture:

• Constantin Brancusi’s L’Oiseau d’or, cast in 1981 by Susse Fondeur from a copy of the original plaster at the instruction of the artist’s heirs, sold for £3.3 m / $4.2 m (est. £2.5-4 m).

• Two bronzes by Auguste Rodin from the collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, an eminent American philanthropist, exceeded their estimates: Éternel printemps, sold for £1.3 m / $1.6 m (est. £800,000-1.2 m) and Cariatide à la pierre, sold for £698,500 / $878,608 (est. £250,000-350,000).

• Six bidders chased Max Ernst’s Moonmad (last sold at auction 45 years ago) to £2.1 m / $2.7 m, three times over estimate (est. £600,000-800,000).

• Antony Gormley’s State VIII from 2012 achieved £508,000 / $638,988 (est. £400,000-600,000).