Auction recap / Christie's
Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale Realizes £19,233,628
Led by a Pablo Picasso work that sold for £1,636,000, the auction achieved an 84.5% sell-through rate.
Facts Table · market analytics
Python computed · 2026-03-06- Lots offered
- 174
- Lots sold
- 147
- Lots unsold
- 27
- Sell-through rate
- 84.4828%
- Classified sold lots
- 0
- Pending classified lots
- 147
- Classification coverage
- 0%
- Realized value
- £19,233,628
- Average sold price
- £130,841
- Median sold price
- £43,180
- 90th-percentile sold price
- £355,600
- Top 10% value share
- 52.8782%
- Value concentration (HHI)
- 2.77251%
- Value concentration (Gini)
- 67.8742%
- Price dispersion
- 175.373%
- Lots within estimate
- 24.4898%
- Estimate surprise rate
- 75.5102%
- Realized / midpoint estimate
- 165.758%
Five-year context
same category / currency- Sell-through vs 5-year category medianCurrent 84.4828% · five-year median 66.45% · n=40
- +18.0 pts
- Average sold price vs 5-year category medianCurrent £130,841 · five-year median £29,126 · n=40
- +101,715 GBP
- Realized value vs 5-year category medianCurrent £19,233,628 · five-year median £1,390,642 · n=40
- +17,842,986 GBP
Contextual data provided by Pricing Culture Analytics; this is not an exhaustive list. Pricing Culture Analytics organizes publicly available auction data to analyze and produce insights. Source-bound lot results; calculation version pc-auction-market-facts/2.0. Metrics with incomplete or mixed-currency inputs are withheld.
Auction highlights
- Estimate£400–600KSold£1,636,000
- Estimate£600–800KSold£1,231,900
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Estimate£250–350KSold£952,500PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Estimate£0.7–1MSold£914,400- Estimate£450–650KSold£749,300
- Estimate£350–550KSold£660,400
- Estimate£400–600KSold—
- Estimate£250–350KSold£571,500
- Estimate£200–300KSold£508,000
- Estimate£250–500KSold—
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Estimate£120–180KSold£482,600PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Estimate£120–180KSold£469,900
| Auction highlights | Estimate | Sold price | Estimate track | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) | £400–600K | £1,636,000 | ||
| MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) | £600–800K | £1,231,900 | ||
| JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925) | £250–350K | £952,500 | ||
| PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) | £0.7–1M | £914,400 | ||
| MAXIMILIEN LUCE (1858-1941) | £450–650K | £749,300 | ||
| FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953) | £350–550K | £660,400 | ||
| JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949) | £400–600K | — | ||
| MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943) | £250–350K | £571,500 | ||
| EUGÈNE BOUDIN (1824-1898) | £200–300K | £508,000 | ||
| PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) | £250–500K | — | ||
| PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) | £120–180K | £482,600 | ||
| PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) | £120–180K | £469,900 | ||
Estimate track marks the pre-sale range; the tick marks the sold price.
Contextual data provided by Pricing Culture Analytics; this is not an exhaustive list. Pricing Culture Analytics organizes publicly available auction data to analyze and produce insights.
Christie's concluded its Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale, realizing a total of £19,233,628[1] with 147 of 174 lots sold, representing an 84.5% sell-through[1] rate. Christie's served as the official result source for the auction, documenting the final hammer prices and buyer premiums.
Auction highlights
Sale file- PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) | estimate £400,000 to[2] £600,000 | sold[2] for £1,636,000[2] (above the high estimate)
- MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) | estimate £600,000 to[3] £800,000 | sold[3] for £1,231,900[3] (above the high estimate)
- JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925) | estimate £250,000 to[8][4] £350,000 | sold[8][4] for £952,500[4] (above the high estimate)
- PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) | estimate £700,000 to[5] £1,000,000 | sold[5] for £914,400[5] (within estimate)
- MAXIMILIEN LUCE (1858-1941) | estimate £450,000 to[6] £650,000 | sold[6] for £749,300[6] (above the high estimate)
- FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953) | estimate £350,000 to[7] £550,000 | sold[7] for £660,400[7] (above the high estimate)
- MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943) | estimate £250,000 to £350,000 | sold for £571,500[8] (above the high estimate)
This performance positions the sale as Christie's's #29 sale of 190 concluded this year by realized value. Across all its sales this year, Christie's has achieved a year-to-date total of $3,544,027,442[1]. In the broader art category, which has realized $1,181,188,913[1] across all tracked houses this year with an average sell-through rate of 85.8%[1], Christie's continues to lead the category. Within its own GBP-denominated tracking, Christie's has realized £442,573,218[1] year to date, maintaining a 90.7% sell-through[1] rate.
Sources
- 01
- 02
Christie's
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) - 03
Christie's
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) - 04
Christie's
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925) - 05
Christie's
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) - 06
Christie's
MAXIMILIEN LUCE (1858-1941) - 07
Christie's
FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953) - 08
Christie's
MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943)