Frederic Remington Leads Christie's $69.42m Collection Evening Sale

A work by Frederic Remington was the headline sale at Christie's 'Visions of the West: The William I. Koch Collection Evening Sale' on January 20 in New York.

• The sale totaled $69.42m, exceeding the pre-sale high estimate.

Snapshot of the sale

• 23 works sold totaling $69.42m.
• Estimates totaled: $43.12m (low) and $62.88m (high), excluding premiums.
• The sell-through rate was 92% of the original 25 lots announced.

The star lot was: Frederic Remington, Coming to the Call (1905), which sold for $13.29m, 121% above its $6m low estimate. The work has changed hands multiple times over the years.

The outperformer sold for 376% above its low estimate. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Appeal to the Great Spirit (1919), sold for $571,500 ($120,000 low estimate). It has been traded 6 times in the past.

• 16 works, or 70%, sold above their high estimate.
• 5 works, or 22%, sold within their low and high estimate.
• 2 works, or 9%, sold below their low estimate.
• 0 sold with undisclosed estimates.

Guaranteed sales

No sales had a guarantee.

Works that did not sell

2 works were bought-in, including: Charles M Russell, The Sun Worshippers (1910), estimated at $4m (low) to $6m (high). It has been traded 5 times in the past.

Withdrawn before the sale

0 works were withdrawn

Terms and definitions

All results include the fees and premiums added to the price of a work of art when the auctioneer's hammer falls. Sale prices are compared to the auction house’s low estimate, which do not include premiums.

Guarantees: Sometimes an auction house guarantees to pay a seller for a work, regardless of whether the bidding reaches the reserve price, a figure that is typically confidential.

Bought-in: If there are no bids for a work, or if bidding falls short of the reserve price, the lot is unsold or “bought-in”.

Withdrawn: This happens when a seller decides, for whatever reason, to withdraw a work before the bidding begins.

Premiums: Typically a sliding-scale of charges paid in addition to the hammer price by the buyer, plus any other fees.