Works by Klimt and Magritte lead Sotheby's stolid Modern art sales in New York
The firm’s Modern art evening sale and single-owner Mo Ostin auction brought in a below-estimate hammer total of $363.9m, or $427m with fees
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The firm’s Modern art evening sale and single-owner Mo Ostin auction brought in a below-estimate hammer total of $363.9m, or $427m with fees
While certain lots overdelivered, the evening auctions of the Mo Ostin collection and modern art met a tentative audience.
Sotheby's evening sales yesterday (May 16) brought in $427 million, led by a 1902 Gustav Klimt painting.
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The auction action rotated to Sotheby's, which offered the standalone Mo Ostin collection alongside its evening sale of modern art.