LONDON.- Christie's 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 15 October 2025 generated a total of £106,925,400 / $142,852,334/ €122,750,359, and was 92% sold by lot and 90% sold by value. Peter Doig's Ski Jacket (1994) realised £14,270,000 / $19,064,720 / €16,381,960 and was the top lot of the evening, selling after over 13 minutes of bidding across six bidders.
On 16 October, Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection achieved a total of £8,935,720 / $11,982,801 / €10,258,207, with 72% of the lots offered selling above their high estimates - reaffirming the continued strength and appeal of Christie's Prints and Works on Paper sales, and highlighting Christie's expertise in managing single-owner collections.
The top lot of the evening was Pablo Picasso's Nez quart de Brie (Étude pour Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ou Nu avec draperie) (1907), a pencil on paper drawing that sold for £889,000 / $1,192,149 / €1,020,572. It was followed by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's celebrated etching The Three Trees (1643), which realised £825,500 / $1,106,996 / €947,674 - 175% above the high estimate. Another highlight was Picasso's La Coiffure (Femme se coiffant) (1906), a charcoal on paper drawing that achieved £635,000 / $851,535 / €728,980, more than double its high estimate. Part II of the sale will take place in March 2026.
The works offered from The Ole Faarup Collection across the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale and the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale have so far totalled £28,251,950 / $37,749,272 / €32,433,239, benefitting The Ole Faarup Art Foundation*. Among the Artists: The Ole Faarup Collection Online Sale will be live for bidding until 21 October.
Architects for the Birds was a resounding success, raising £407,000 to support the Tessa Jowell Foundation. This unique charity auction, conceived by Lord Norman Foster of Thames Bank O.M. and philanthropist Marie Donnelly, featured 10 one-of-a-kind birdhouses designed by some of the world's leading architects, including Norman Foster himself, Renzo Piano, David Chipperfield, Grafton Architects, Sou Fujimoto, Lina Ghotmeh, Jacques Herzog, Frida Escobedo, Farshid Moussavi, and Kazuyo Sejima. The Tessa Jowell Foundation, dedicated to improving brain cancer treatment and care across the UK, benefited from this extraordinary collaboration of creativity and philanthropy.
