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Buyers snapped up art works of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Alberto Giacometti at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction in New York, raking in a whopping $219 million.
Picasso’s Le Sauvetage, a 1932 oil canvas, sold for the highest amount: a cool $31.5 million. The next was Henri Matisse’s La Séance du matin, which went under the hammer for $19.2 million. But this fell short of the estimated $20-$30 million set by the auction house. Monet’s spectacular and richly painted canvas of the Japanese footbridge: Le Pont Japonais, sold for $15.8 million.
Alberto Giacometti’s La Place, a sculpture cast in 1948, fetched $13 million, within the estimated range of $12-$18 million. The piece depicted five miniature stick-figure people, a woman and four men on a horizontal platform.
A 1946 Miro and a spectacular coastal landscape by Monet sold for a little over $8 million at the auction.
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