Christie’s started off the spring auction season strongly with a three-part auction in London and Shanghai, racking up $334 million in works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Die Fucshe (“The Foxes”), a 1913 painting by Franz Marc, fetched the highest price of $57 million. (This was a restitution piece stolen by the Nazis during WWII.)
And an untitled triptych by Francis Bacon – that I would have bought if I were 100 times richer – went to a lone phone bidder for $47.6 million.