1,067 artworks at auction

The tentpole auction seasons across the year offered a mixed bag. Still, this was a year that yielded its fair share of blockbuster results and significant auction records.

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Here, we run down the top 10 lots at auction in As a landmark of late Impressionism, the breathtaking painting envisions a landscape where the sky and water merge as one blue hue, with the water lilies offering the only spatial marker. El Gran Espectaculo The Nile , a triptych from Jean-Michel Basquiat , conflates the histories of ancient Egypt and the Southern United States, offering a critique of the exploitation of Black people through history, reflecting on slavery in both ancient Egypt and pre—civil war U.

Part of the proceeds from the sale of the work were distributed to Accademia Valentino, a Rome-based organization uplifting art and fashion education. Gustav Klimt, Insel im Attersee , ca. The sale of this work makes Gustav Klimt the only artist on this list to appear twice.

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Insel im Attersee Island in the Attersee ca. Insel im Attersee Island in the Attersee was originally part of the collection of the Austrian art historian Otto Kallir. Insel im Attersee Island in the Attersee is among the numerous artworks Klimt crafted using his distinctive square format. This painting, in particular, was conceived at Lake Attersee in Austria and is one of two Klimt paintings from the same vantage point.

The other, Attersee , resides in the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Francis Bacon, Figure in Movement , The painting, depicting two figures wrestling within a transparent cube, is inspired by the sudden passing of George Dyer, with whom he had a tumultuous relationship.