Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Drahtseilläufer (1935), sold for $67,900, more than six times the low estimate at Christie's, London. Gouache, watercolour, brush and pen and india ink on paper, 28.6 x 26.3cm. The work has been traded 3 times in the past.
Wassily Kandinsky, Ohne Titel (1940), sold for $271,500, more than two and a half times the low estimate at Christie's, London. Gouache and brush and pen and india ink on coloured paper, 34.7 x 29.3cm. The work has been traded twice in the past.
There is never a good time for a war to start, but the directors of London’s auction houses must have woken on Monday morning and read the news that the US and Israel had bombed Iran with particular alarm.
Lyonel Feininger, Frachtdampfer auf der Ostsee (1931), sold for $93,300 (GBP69,800), more than twice the low estimate at Christie's in London on March 6.
Max Pechstein, Tree on Water (1935), sold for $101,800 (GBP76,200), more than three times the low estimate at Christie's in London on March 6.
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