A painting by Wassily Kandinsky together with a Gilbert and George work were among the 67% of lots selling above their low estimate at Christie's '20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale' on October 14 in London. The sale totaled $146.9m (£111.1m), meeting the pre-sale estimate.
Rene Magritte, Sans titre (1936), sold for $558,500 (GBP422,400), more than the low estimate at Christie's in London on October 14.
The certainty of being a rose (ii) set a new auction record for Igshaan Adams, selling for $126,900 (GBP96,000) at Christie's London, $26,100 above the artist’s previous record sale, a 25% rise.
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (1988), sold for $4.31m (GBP3.26m), more than the low estimate at Christie's in London on October 14.
Josef Albers, R-I d-1 (1968), sold for $778,500 (GBP588,800), more than twice the low estimate at Christie's in London on October 14.
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