{"id":324098,"date":"2026-03-06T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:22:09","slug":"20th-21st-century-art-london-sales-results-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324098\/","title":{"rendered":"20th\/21st Century art London sales results March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rounding off the night, a group of Impressionist pictures demonstrated the movement\u2019s enduring appeal. Claude Monet\u2019s verdant painting of a Parisian urban oasis Le Parc Monceau<\/a> (1878) made \u00a36,760,000; Edgar Degas\u2019s pastel of a nude bather Femme sortant du bain<\/a> (c. 1887-90), which has been owned by the same family for over a century, made \u00a31,880,000; and Pierre-Auguste Renoir\u2019s Rochers de l\u2019Estate<\/a> (1882), created during the weeks he spent painting the arid landscape in the south of France with Paul Cezanne<\/a>, made \u00a3762,000.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Study for \u2018Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose\u2019<\/a> (1885), by John Singer Sargent \u2014 a close friend of Degas, Monet and Renoir \u2014 made \u00a33,466,000. The rare oil on canvas is a preparatory work the landmark painting<\/a> in Tate Britain\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

The Art of the Surreal<\/p>\n

Later in the night, the 25th edition of The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale<\/a> sold 100 per cent by lot, the 26 works totalling of \u00a342,978,950 \/ $57,419,877 \/ \u20ac49,210,898, selling 151 per cent of the sale\u2019s low estimate and 54 per cent of lots sold above their high estimate.<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9 Magritte achieved the top price of the auction with Les gr\u00e2ces naturelles<\/a> (c. 1961), which has been exhibited at the Mus\u00e9es royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. It made \u00a38,520,000.<\/p>\n

Four more of his works were on offer in the sale. The surreal landscape La jeunesse illustr\u00e9e<\/a> (1937) made \u00a32,307,000; the nude torso La grande mar\u00e9e<\/a> (1946) made \u00a31,392,000; a portrait in pearls Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade<\/a> (c. 1947-48) made \u00a3952,500; and a gouache and collage L\u2019esprit et la forme<\/a> (1961) made \u00a3762,000.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest draws on the evening was Dorothea Tanning\u2019s Children\u2019s Games<\/a> (1942). Measuring 23 x 14 centimetres and until only months ago was on long-term loan to the Museum of Art in Dallas, it made \u00a34,686,000 against a low estimate of just \u00a31,000,000, smashing the artist\u2019s auction record set at \u00a32,463,863 in November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rounding off the night, a group of Impressionist pictures demonstrated the movement\u2019s enduring appeal. Claude Monet\u2019s verdant painting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[160608,7123,9113,146,160609,85,46,160607,11018],"class_list":{"0":"post-324098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-auction-results","9":"tag-christies","10":"tag-contemporary-art","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-high-estimate","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-london-evening-sales","16":"tag-modern-art"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}